AuthorListening Books
NarratorNatasha Lipman, Jessica Stone
Duration49m
CategoriesAdult Non-Fiction, Biography and Autobiography
PublisherListening Books
VersionUnabridged
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.
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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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 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 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 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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The Listening Books Podcast - Series 1
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Listening Books Podcast, Book 1
Duration 4h 45m
Featuring all episodes from series 1 of the podcast: Episode One: Horror Fiction - In this first episode, host Jessica Stone delves into the dingy depths of horror books with Claire Bell and Nik de Garis. Episode Two: 200 Years of Frankenstein - Abigail Jaggers tells Jessica all about the bizarre life of the writer Mary Shelley. Episode Three: C...
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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 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 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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