AuthorListening Books, Jonathan Whitelaw
NarratorJonathan Whitelaw, Jessica Stone
Duration43m
CategoriesAdult Non-Fiction, Biography and Autobiography
PublisherListening Books
VersionUnabridged
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.
Series 4, Episode 5 - Florence Wilkinson
Author: Listening Books, Florence Wilkinson
Author Listening Books, Florence Wilkinson
Narrator Florence Wilkinson, Jessica Stone
Duration 43m
Author Florence Wilkinson talks about her book Wild City: Encounters with Urban Wildlife, giving lots of suggestions for noticing and encouraging the wildlife right on our doorstep.
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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 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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Series 3, Episode 3 - Francis Spufford
Author: Listening Books, Francis Spufford
Author Listening Books, Francis Spufford
Narrator Francis Spufford, Jessica Stone
SeriesThe Listening Books Podcast, Book 3
Duration 47m
Author Francis Spufford talks about what it's been like to launch his new novel, Light Perpetual, during a pandemic, the many talents and accents required of audiobook narrator Imogen Church, the fondness he holds for his 'unlikable' characters, and why the narrator was especially important for his historical novel Golden Hill. To top it off, he de...
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Series 5, Episode 2 - Polly Lee
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Jessica Stone, Polly Lee
Duration 35m
Jessica Stone chats to Polly Lee, the narrator of the very successful series, The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani.
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Series 3, Episode 1 - Caroline O'Donoghue
Author: Listening Books, Caroline O'Donoghue
Author Listening Books, Caroline O'Donoghue
Narrator Caroline O'Donoghue, Jessica Stone
SeriesThe Listening Books Podcast, Book 1
Duration 41m
'I wanted it to look like how it feels like, and how it feels to be Irish sometimes is that you are in a murder mystery.' Caroline O'Donoghue, host of Sentimental Garbage and author of Promising Young Women, Scenes of a Graphic Nature and the forthcoming YA novel All Our Hidden Gifts, tells Jess about playing with different genres, how some endings...
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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 4 - Claire Fuller
Author: Listening Books, Claire Fuller
Author Listening Books, Claire Fuller
Narrator Jessica Stone, Claire Fuller
SeriesThe Listening Books Podcast, Book 4
Duration 42m
It does play huge roles in describing the character and circumstances, but really it’s there because I love food! Author Claire Fuller talks with Jess about her latest novel, Unsettled Ground, shortlisted for the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction, and her third novel, the simmering, suspenseful Bitter Orange. Claire reflects on the roles m...
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Series 4, Episode 2 - Natasha Lipman
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Natasha Lipman, Jessica Stone
Duration 49m
Natasha Lipman writes about what it means to live, and live well, with chronic illness. Here she talks to Jessica about the strategies she’s adopted to return her to the pleasures of reading.
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Series 5, Episode 1 - Bonnie Garmus
Author: Listening Books, Bonnie Garmus
Author Listening Books, Bonnie Garmus
Narrator Jessica Stone, Bonnie Garmus
Duration 36m
Jessica Stone interviews author of the hugely successful Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus.
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