AuthorListening Books, Claire Fuller
NarratorJessica Stone, Claire Fuller
SeriesThe Listening Books Podcast, Book 4
Duration42m
CategoriesAdult Non-Fiction, Biography and Autobiography
PublisherListening Books
VersionUnabridged
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 music and food play in her story-telling, and she describes how someone who never aspired to be a writer became one nonetheless. Books Claire Recommends for the Audiobook Listening Challenge Ian McEwan's Atonement Donna Tartt's The Secret History
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 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 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 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 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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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 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 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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