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Talking Books

The best of the spoken word from RNIB's Talking Book Studios.

New episodes every Monday to Friday at 2pm and repeated every night at 10pm.

Enjoy an unabridged audiobook, serialised over a number of days and weeks, only on RNIB Connect Radio or listen again to every episode here. Our current book is Summer Lightning by P.G. Wodehouse read by Robin Holmes.

Blandings Castle, the Shropshire seat of Lord Emsworth, is the scene of a disaster: the Empress of Blandings has disappeared! Suspects are legion and young love becomes involved before Lord E. and his beloved sow are reunited.

Summer Lightning by P.G. Wodehouse

11 episodes

The cover of the book "Summer Lightning" by P.G. Wodehouse is designed in a playful, cartoon-like style with a predominantly brown background. The title "SUMMER LIGHTNING" is written in large, bold, black and white letters that are arranged in a dynamic, scattered fashion across the top half of the cover. At the top of the cover, there is a quote from the Washington Post describing the book as "HILARIOUS" in all caps.

The central image on the cover is an illustration of a pink pig standing on its hind legs, wearing a black bowler hat. The pig is positioned in the middle of the cover and is facing to the left. The pig's expression is neutral, and it stands on a white line that diagonally cuts across the cover from the bottom left to the upper right.

At the bottom of the cover, the author's name, P.G. Wodehouse, is written in a cursive, black font. In the top right corner, there is a small Penguin Books logo, which is a white oval containing an orange and black penguin.