AuthorListening Books
NarratorVarious
SeriesThe Listening Books Podcast, Book 2
Duration6h 14m
CategoriesAdult Non-Fiction, Biography and Autobiography
PublisherListening Books
VersionUnabridged
Episode One - Bonus! Extra chat with Bleak Expectations creator Mark Evans
Episode Two - Reading Roundup: Myths and Fairy Tales Reimagined
Episode Three - Author Natalie Haynes
Episode Four - Reading Roundup: Great Audiobook Narrators
Episode Five - Audiobook Narrator Bronwen Price
Episode Six - Reading Roundup: Books Even Better as Audiobooks
Episode Seven - Author Simon Brett
Episode Eight - Reading Roundup: Books Popular with Listening Books Members
Episode Nine - Anniversary Special with Gillie Howarth
Series 3, Episode 5 - David Gange
Author: Listening Books, David Gange
Author Listening Books, David Gange
Narrator David Gange, Jessica Stone
SeriesThe Listening Books Podcast, Book 5
Duration 41m
From Jul 15, 2021 'The kayak gives this incredible perspective on the world, where you are really embedded in the worlds of the species, you're surrounded by other animals, they don't respond to you in the way that they respond to humans on foot because obviously they are so much more skilled in and on the water than you are.' Writer and historia...
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Series 4, Episode 4 - Reading Roundup - Books Adapted to Film
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Jessica Stone, Amy Flinders, Godelieve de Bree
Duration 41m
Jess is joined by colleagues Amy and Lieve to talk about notable books adapted to film—for better and for worse! Of course, this is all just a warm-up for the true highlight, which is of course our Very Serious Literary Game. Will Amy triumph against her new opponent, or will Lieve take down the reigning champion?
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Series 5, Episode 3 - Jane McDowell
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Jessica Stone, Jane Mcdowell
Duration 31m
Jessica Stone talks to audiobook narrator and actor Jane McDowell.
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Series 4, Episode 7 - Dr Julie Smith
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Dr Julie Smith, Jessica Stone
Duration 39m
Clinical psychologist and author Dr Julie Smith joins Jess to share some of the practical wisdom from her bestselling book Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? Want to know one of the most versatile tools to have in your mental health tool kit? Do you ever wish you could summon motivation when you need it most? Julie warns us of the pitfalls of chas...
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Series 4, Episode 1 - Slightly Foxed Editors Gail Pirkis and Hazel Wood
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Gail Pirkis, Hazel Wood, Jessica Stone
Duration 45m
Gail Pirkis and Hazel Wood are founding editors of Slightly Foxed, the quarterly magazine and independent publishing house. As specialists in books that have stood the test of time even while falling out of fashion, Gail and Hazel bring us titles so good, they deserve to be heard as audiobooks, too.
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Series 4, Episode 6 - Jonathan Whitelaw
Author: Listening Books, Jonathan Whitelaw
Author Listening Books, Jonathan Whitelaw
Narrator Jonathan Whitelaw, Jessica Stone
Duration 43m
Author Jonathan Whitelaw joins Jess for a cosy chat about cosy crime. He tells us how he landed such a fantastic narrator in Sid Sagar, how he approached character development in The Bingo Hall Detectives, why he chose the Lake District for the setting, and what we should be reading while we wait for his next book, The Village Hall Vendetta.
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Series 3, Episode 2 - Kobna Holdbrook - Smith
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Jessica Stone
SeriesThe Listening Books Podcast, Book 2
Duration 38m
From April 15, 2021 Actor and audiobook narrator Kobna Holdbrook-Smith talks about what it was like to voice Rivers of London as his first audiobook, what he had to unlearn to do voice work and how Frank Sinatra inspired his mic technique.
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Series 3, Episode 6 - Fiona Bennett and Michael Schaeffer
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Michael Schaeffer, Fiona Bennett, Jessica Stone
SeriesThe Listening Books Podcast, Book 6
Duration 43m
From Aug 12, 2021 'My reading experience with poetry is that I'm in the presence of some...body and we're in that kind of potentially ... it might be that slightly late night kitchen table moment where you've sort of got through all the news and the stuff and you actually enter into where you really are, and what's going on, and what you really n...
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Series 4, Episode 3 - Emilie Pine
Author: Listening Books, Emilie Pine
Author Listening Books, Emilie Pine
Narrator Emilie Pine, Jessica Stone
Duration 45m
Emilie Pine, author of the personal essay collection Notes to Self and her recently published novel Ruth and Pen, tells us what it was like to narrate her emotionally difficult first book, what factored into the casting of Ruth and Pen’s audiobook narrator, and the sometimes surprising responses she’s received from readers. There is als...
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Series 4, Episode 8 - Annie Aldington
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Annie Aldington, Jessica Stone
Duration 37m
Annie Aldington has voiced hundreds of audiobooks, and among them are some of the most popular titles in the Listening Books collection, including novels by Dilly Court, Martina Cole, Katie Price, Aoife Walsh, and Kitty Neale. Here Annie tells us how she happened into audiobook narration, shares her secret tricks for conquering difficult accents, a...
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