'The Last Train' - with Professor Michael Pronko (and Victor Dima!)

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - a podcast that recommends and reviews audiobooks. On this episode:  Steve and Matthew review and recommend the real history of the renaissance castle that was the home to the Third Reich’s most notorious prisoner of war camp The camp where they imprisoned only the most troublesome Allied military prisoners - many of them serial escapists - all of them enemies of the German State. Welcome….  to Colditz!  Title: Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle Author: Ben MacIntyre Narrator: Ben MacIntyre Publisher: Penguin Audio Length: 13 hours and 25 minutes Please get involved in the conversation - either with your opinions on ‘Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle’ or if you want to recommend an audiobook for us to review by using #AudioBookClub on facebook, twitter or instagram. @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom https://www.audiobookclub.net/  – Coming up on #AudioBookClub… From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast (Series 2) - https://amzn.to/3yia0vA The Sandman: Act III - https://amzn.to/3TMtu3J

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Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - a podcast that recommends and reviews audiobooks. On this episode:  ‘The Bullet That Missed’ Book 3 of Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series of whodunnits set in idyllic retirement village Coopers Chase. For people (like Matthew) who have read the first two books in the series, it’s the eagerly awaited return of beloved characters Joyce, Elizabeth, Ron and Ibrahim. For people (like Steve) who are new to the seriesm it’s a chance to follow the adventures of a group of senior citizens who have taken to solving murders. Society may have cast them aside, but they are fully rounded human beings with a wealth of experience. In our role as one of the world’s very few audiobook review and recommendation podcasts, we feel it is our duty to bring up the issue that nobody else is talking about - to mention the elephant in the room: Changing a narrator? Three books into an audiobook series? Is that even legal? Please get involved in the conversation - either with your opinions on ‘The Bullet That Missed’ or if you want to recommend an audiobook for us to review by using #AudioBookClub on facebook, twitter or instagram. – Coming up on AudioBookClub… ‘Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle’ by Ben MacIntyre - https://amzn.to/3EiofUR  From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast (Series 2) - https://amzn.to/3yia0vA

5 Loka 202237min

On the latest episode of #AudioBookClub - the audiobook review and recommendation podcast - Steve and Matthew leave their comfort zone to discuss possibly the most punk audiobook of all time. ‘NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub’' by NOFX and Jeff Alulis is a collection of autobiographical vignettes from L.A. punk band NOFX. When we say ‘vignettes’ we mean ‘often disturbing and even disgusting stories’ Steve and Matthew are joined by ‘friend of the show’ Shane Kendall who is responsible for recommending that we listen to this particular audiobook.

28 Syys 202250min

On this episode of #AudioBookClub Steve and Matt consume 'Fibber in the Heat' by Miles Jupp - an autobiographical memoir of the actor/comedian/author's attempt to blag his way into becoming a cricket journalist. In ‘Notes from the Margin’, we’ll be asking ‘How new does an audiobook have to be to be considered worthy of recommendation by #AudioBookClub?’. -- Fibber in the Heat Following England in India - A Blagger's Tale By: Miles Jupp Narrated by: Miles Jupp Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins Release date: 10-05-2012 Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

14 Syys 202232min

On the latest episode of #AudioBookClub - the audiobook review and recommendation podcast - Steve and Matthew discuss ‘The Twist of a Knife' - the fourth in Anthony Horowitz’s Horowitz and Hawthorne whodunnits   The Twist of a Knife  Written by Anthony Horowitz ‘Performed’ (not read) by Rory Kinnear Published by Penguin Audio - 2022 Clocks in at 8 hours and 31 minutes

7 Syys 202227min

On the latest episode of #AudioBookClub - an interactive audiobook review and recommendation podcast - Steve and Matthew discuss ‘Touch the Top of the World’ an autobiography from Erik Weihenmayer who was the first blind person to climb to the top of Mount Everest. This gives Steve a chance to ask Matthew about his day job at Vision Australia Radio. In their new ‘Notes from the Margin’ section - the bit that’s about audiobooks in general - Steve and Matthew continue their conversation about giving audiobooks as gifts and ask “Is it better to give or to receive?” -- Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther Than the Eye Can See By: Erik Weihenmayer Narrated by: Nick Sullivan Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins   COMING UP: 4th September 2022 - Fibber in the Heat by Miles Jupp 11th September 2022 - NOFX: ‘The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories’ by NOFX, Jello Biafra, et al.

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On this episode of #AudioBookClub - no longer the world's only interactive audiobook review and recommendation podcast - Steve and Matthew speak to journalist and author Geoff White about his new audiobook 'The Lazarus Heist'. The book is based on the BBC's award winning podcast series of the same name and, in both formats, Geoff tells the story of the Lazarus Group - an elite group of North Korean government-backed hackers. This is the first time we've encountered an audiobook based on a podcast series, so we ask ourselves and Geoff what the difference between the two formats is, both for him as an author/journalist/presenter and for us as listeners. We also touch upon the differences between working for the BBC and for a publishing company like Penguin; and Geoff reminds us that while we haven't necessarily seen many visible signs of any cyber fallout from the war in Ukraine, there is a lot of defensive effort being undertaken in places like GCHQ and Fort Meade. -- Get involved in the conversation. Make your views known! In the #AudioBookClub forums - https://www.audiobookclub.net/forum/discuss-audiobooks/the-sandman On our facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/AnAudioBookClub Or use the hashtag #AudioBookClub  On Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/audiobookshow/ Or on twitter - https://twitter.com/stevekphillips https://twitter.com/whingeingpom

20 Elo 202242min

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the interactive audiobook review and recommendation podcast. On this episode we’ll be reviewing ‘A Book of Secrets; Finding Solace in a Stubborn World’ the latest in a series of anti-self-help books from TV mentalist Derren Brown. On an equally philosophical but entirely different level, we’ll also be looking into the process of buying someone an audiobook as a present. Not as tangible for either party as the gift of an old-fashioned three dimensional ‘atoms and molecules’ book, but is it satisfying - both to give and to receive.

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