On this episode of #AudioBookClub:

The aliens are coming!

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.

This week, rather than reviewing a single title, Matthew and Steve take a dive into the world of Big Finish - the loving family of audio craftspeople most famous for lovingly keeping Doctor Who alive.

They produce high quality dramas that are the audio equivalent of a fine malt whisky - a highquality refined product best consumed by people who really appreciate the good stuff.

We shall be listening to and recommending their reimagining of 80s sci-fi classic V…

V UK: Visitation

…and their ‘free-to-air’ back catalogue, now available in podcast form…

Into the TARDIS

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On this episode of #AudioBookClub:

The television interview that marked the beginning of the end for Margaret Thatcher

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.

Matthew’s mid-life crisis continues Steve reveals how he was traumatised by Brian Walden as a small child

Why Is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me?

Searching for the Truth on Political TV

A: Rob Burley

N: Rob Burley

L: 13 hrs and 8 mins

P: HarperCollins

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On this episode of #AudioBookClub:

We unleash our inner Don Drapers with the help of avuncular adman Rory Sutherland

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.

Alchemy

The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense

A: Rory Sutherland

N: Rory Sutherland

L: 9 hrs and 38 mins

P: Penguin Audio

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On this episode of #AudioBookClub:

We head to New York in the roaring twenties, where we shall drink hooch in speak-easies with fairies and flappers

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The Masquerades of Spring

A: Ben Aaronovitch

N: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

L: 4 hrs and 34 mins

P: Orion

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On this episode of #AudioBookClub:

A minke whale, a kung-fu chicken and the rabbit equivalent of Jason Statham,

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.

My Animals, and Other Animals

A memoir of sorts

A: Bill Bailey

N: Bill Bailey

L: 5 hrs and 03 mins

P: Querkus

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Just simply an audiobook that Matt and Steve think you’ll want to read.

Humbling, heart wrenching and humorous, ‘Shattered’ is raw in how Hanif Kureishi expresses the detailed physical and mental challenges of suddenly becoming tetraplegic.

Have a listen and let us know your thougts and reactions below.

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New Year, New You?

We review James Clear’s bestseller ‘Atomic Habits’ to start off 2025’s audiobook treats.

Have you followed his steps?

We’ve started (hopefully not in an annual-gym-subscription-but-only-go-for-three-weeks kind of way).

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Hear interviews with some of the best in the literary and audio world as we give you the highlights of some of our favourite luminaries:

Dirk Maggs, described as “the Steven Spielberg of Audio” and producer of Audible's The Sandman series and BBC Radio 4's Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (among many more)

Author of the critically-acclaimed, internationally bestselling Peter Grant/Rivers of London urban fantasy series. and Doctor Who writer Ben Aaronovitch

Bestselling author of A Spy Among Friends, Double Cross, Colditz, The Siege and Operation Mincemeat, Ben MacIntyre

Ben Folds, New York Times Best Selling author and widely regarded as one of the major music influencers of our generation

Multi-award winning Investigative journalist and Lazarus Heist co-creator Geoff White

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