AuthorListening Books
NarratorDr Julie Smith, Jessica Stone
Duration39m
CategoriesAdult Non-Fiction, Biography and Autobiography
PublisherListening Books
VersionUnabridged
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 chasing self-esteem and the rewards of living your life in line with who you want to be.
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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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.
View BookSeries 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.
View BookSeries 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.
View BookSeries 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...
View BookSeries 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.
View BookSeries 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...
View BookSeries 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.
View BookSeries 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...
View BookThe Listening Books Podcast Series 2
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Listening Books Podcast, Book 2
Duration 6h 14m
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...
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