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Quintin Jardine on his Bob Skinner series, Sarah Crossan on One plus Robert Kirkwood and new host Red Szell talk about the discovery of the first ever Talking Books - Dec 2nd 2016

Some Secrets and Confessions from the audio version of this year's Book Week Scotland free book and going behind the scenes of the Scottish Book Trust - Nov 25th 2016

Narrator Di Langford talks about some favourite books and accents, Kim Normanton goes through the books of her life, Book Week Scotland launches and more - Nov 18th 2016

It's a year since Talking Books became a free service for anyone eligible to join. We talk to staff and listeners to find out what a difference that has made - Nov 11th 2016

Historian and broadcaster Neil Oliver joins us from Australia, Stephen Booth on crime writing plus the importance of preserving and sharing archive audio - 4 Nov 2016

We speak to 2016 winner Paul Beatty and the five other authors on the shortlist on this updated version of the show first played on the night of the award presentation. 28 Oct 2016

Booker shortlisted author Paul Beatty, Driving Over Lemons author Chris Stewart, TB narrators who were in Star Wars, David Adam on OCD, James Bond books from RNIB and more - Oct 21 2016

Commander Chris Hadfield on 'The Darkest Dark', the launch of Book Week Scotland, some great sci-fi books from RNIB and more - Oct 14 2016

Recorded live at the Edinburgh Book Festival, Ian Rankin interviews Frederick Forsythe, Jessie Kean talks about her new novel Stay Dead, we find out about listening to RNIB Talking Books on a memory stick and we also Wear Dots to Raise Lots - Oct 07 2016

Recorded on location in Scotland's Book Town with ... Susan Calman, Helen Sedgwick, Jonathan King, Angus McDonald, Ian Fraser, Adrian Sykes, Hardeep Singh Kohli, Lisa Owens and more - Sep 30 2016

The UK's biggest selling non-fiction author discusses many of his history and travel books, including the lost book, Palace Under the Alps. Also, from the Penguin Podcast, he talks to Richard E. Grant about 'The Road to Little Dribbling' - Sep 23 2016

Roald Dahl tells us why he started writing children's books, McILvaney Prize winner Chris Brookmyre talks Black Widow plus Booker Shortlisted Graeme Macrae Burnet, Star Trek at 50 and a short story from Horatio Clare - Sep 16 2016

The author of The Day of the Jackal joins me to discuss cocaine, coups and charity, and he also narrates an exclusive short story. There's some accessible comic news and a listen to some books by the late Gene Wilder. - Sep 02 2016

As His Bloody Project is longlisted for the Booker we talk to author Graeme Macrae Burnet, Richard E. Grants chats to Alain de Botton in the Penguin Podcast and more on that RNIB and Audible announcement - 26 Aug 2016

Author of The Blind Man of Hoy, Red Szell, joins Robert Kirkwood on stage at the Edinburgh International Book Festival for an hour of adventures in blind climbing. Also a huge announcement from Audible and RNIB and a live reading too. - Aug 19 2016

Before this year's live show we travel back to last year with Zoe Strachan live on stage with Robert Kirkwood plus many special guests - Aug 12 2015

Michael Palin tells us what line he forgot in Monty Python Live, Juliette Burton on bodyshaming and book recommendations from the people who read them. - Aug 05 2016

Talking to the voice of Christian Grey, celebrating some Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, and Giles Abbot does Shakespeare - July 29 2016

We listen to Touching the Rock, upon which the new film Notes on Blindness is based. We look at RNIB Talking Books six month after becoming a free service and get techy with RNIB Overdrive - July 08 2016

The recent winner of the Walter Scott prize Simon Mawer talks about The Glass Room, from the Penguin Podcast Richard E Grant talks to Louis De Berniers and your chance to shape next year's RNIB writing competition - June 24 2016