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Recorded to celebrate 90 years of RNIB Talking Books, this is a multi-cast presentation of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen featuring some of your favourite Talking Book narrators and some famous voices from stage and screen.

Recorded to celebrate 90 years of RNIB Talking Books, this is a multi-cast presentation of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen featuring some of your favourite Talking Book narrators and some famous voices from stage and screen.

Recorded to celebrate 90 years of RNIB Talking Books, this is a multi-cast presentation of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen featuring some of your favourite Talking Book narrators and some famous voices from stage and screen.

About Connie Evans: Connie Evans was born in 1921 in London’s East End and was raised in Shoreditch. Living in wartime London, Connie worked in Dalston as a machinist making menswear, before later joining the Auxiliary Territorial Service. While serving, she met her partner, Ted, whom she married in 1943. In her later years, Connie supported people in need within her local community, supplying whe...

About Red Szell: Red Szell is a writer, broadcaster and blind rock climber. Diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa in his teens, he has been registered blind since 1989, and lives in London with his wife and their two children. In 2013, he became the first blind person to climb the Old Man of Hoy – the tallest sea-stack in the Northern Hemisphere at 450ft high. The feat was captured in a BBC TV docum...

About Mike Duxbury: Mike Duxbury lost his sight to childhood glaucoma at the age of 6. Undeterred by his sight loss, Mike continues to pursue his wide range of passions – including attending and graduating from agricultural college, driving racing cars, travelling the world, becoming a confident public speaker and a talented musician, and above all, achieving his ultimate dream of becoming a farme...

About Maud Rowell: Maud Rowell is a writer, photographer and civil servant. She began losing her sight at age 19 due to a rare degenerative disease called FEVR. She went on to study Japanese at the University of Cambridge before training as a journalist. Her first book, Blind Spot: Exploring and Educating on Blindness, was published in November 2021. Maud now works for the Department for Environme...

About Ian Treherne: Ian Treherne is an Essex-born and based photographer with a truly unique take on the world, navigating it through the lens of RP Type 2 Usher Syndrome – a condition that combines blindness and deafness. From the moment he was told he was going blind at age 15, he knew he wanted to see and capture as much of the world as possible. Now working as a commissioned photographer, he s...

About Lord Blunkett: David Blunkett is a UK politician who transitioned from leading England’s fourth largest city (Sheffield), to becoming the Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside in 1987. He joined the incoming government in 1997 and served for eight years in Tony Blair’s Cabinet. During that time, he held the posts of Education and Employment Secretary, Home Secretary and Secretary of...

About Sylvia Chengo: Sylvia Chengo is a digital content creator, storyteller, public speaker and mother who uses her platform to amplify underrepresented voices and redefine perceptions of blindness, parenthood and identity. Experiencing life-changing sight loss shortly after the birth of her first child marked the beginning of a journey that transformed Sylvia’s personal and professional life. To...

About Chris Hunt Skelley MBE: Chris Hunt Skelley MBE PLY embodies resilience, determination and the power of adapting to life’s challenges. From being diagnosed with ocular albinism at 19 to becoming a Paralympic Champion, his journey inspires audiences worldwide. As a Tokyo 2020 Gold Medallist, Paris 2024 Bronze Medallist and former World No.1 Judoka, Chris demonstrates how challenges can become...

About Ben Breen: Currently working as the Accessible Gaming Officer at RNIB, Ben Breen – also known online as SightlessKombat – is an award-winning, multi- credited accessibility consultant and content creator who has spent over 10 years in the video game industry. Born blind due to retinopathy of prematurity, Ben turned his passion into a diverse career and has become an important voice in the bl...

About Yahya Pandor: Yahya Pandor is an advocate, public speaker and record-holding athlete who became fully blind in 2021. After losing his sight, he discovered new passions and became the first fully blind person in the world to run a marathon untethered. Beyond sport, Yahya leads national engagement work, supporting blind and partially sighted people to influence change and improve accessibility...

About Nan M: Nan Mthembu is a British South African model with albinism, based in London. Nan enjoys the creative outlet of modelling, using it to express emotion and channel their passion for visual art, movement and fashion. They advocate for the disabled community by pushing boundaries through their work – subverting expectations of albinism and capturing raw artistry and emotion that reflects...

About Dr Nicolas Bonne: Originally from Australia, Dr Nicolas Bonne was born with a severe vision impairment due to an eye condition called retinopathy of prematurity. Nicolas pursued a childhood fascination with space by completing a PhD and moving to the UK to start a career as a professional astronomer. He now works at the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation as a s...

About Steve Darling: Steve Darling is a Member of Parliament for Torbay. Though his vision was affected at a young age due to Stargardt’s disease, his ambition and drive to pursue his passions never faltered. Motivated by a desire to help others, Steve has had a long career in politics – from serving as a councillor for over 30 years, working for the previous Liberal Democrat MP, and becoming Lead...

About Penny Melville-Brown: During her time as a Commander in the Royal Navy, Penny Melville- Brown worked in uniform using a white cane, before her eyesight deteriorated completely due to uveitis. After being medically discharged, Penny used the confidence gained from her experience in the Royal Navy to launch her own business, take on senior Government roles and help thousands of other disabled...

About Jessikah Inaba: Jessikah Inaba was born and raised in Lewisham, South London, with bilateral microphthalmia and is completely blind as a result. On 13 October 2022, she was called to the Bar of England and Wales, becoming the first Black and blind barrister in the country’s history. Her academic work spans two doctoral research projects: the treatment of Black and low-income families within...

About Clive Jones: Clive Jones is a blind veteran who served for 12 years in the British Army before an attack left him blind in both eyes. During his rehabilitation in 2001, Clive took up archery and quickly discovered a remarkable talent for the sport. Since then, he has competed in numerous British Blind Sport competitions, earning multiple titles as the B1 champion. Most recently, he won the B...

About Clarke Reynolds: Clarke Reynolds is a professional artist based in Portsmouth, known nationally and internationally for his pioneering use of colour-coded braille as a visual language in contemporary art. Having gradually lost his sight following his diagnosis of retinitis pigmentosa, Clarke has redefined what it means to communicate through creativity. His practice invites audiences to enga...

About Anna Tylor: Anna Tylor was born severely sight impaired and has been a life-long advocate of disability rights. Her early career included working on employment programmes, and she has also worked in service settings delivering training and development activities. She was involved in leading the roll out of equalities legislation and has worked on inclusion programmes – including with the Cit...

About Dr Amit Patel: As a best-selling author, broadcaster, award-winning Diversity, Equity and Inclusion consultant and disability rights campaigner, Dr Amit Patel works tirelessly to champion equal opportunities and break down barriers for people with disabilities. Amit lost his sight following a series of failed corneal transplants due to keratoconus, which sparked his passion for fostering a m...

About Ellen Renton: Ellen Renton is a poet and theatre-maker with albinism from Edinburgh. Since performing her own work for the first time in 2015, she has read at venues including The Scottish Parliament, The Roundhouse, Leith Theatre, and at festivals such as Verve and the Edinburgh International Book Festival. While always keeping poetry at its core, her work is varied and has included theatre...

About Ebony Rose Dark: Ebony Rose Dark is a London-based performance drag artist, cabaret star and dance-maker whose work powerfully challenges ideas around disability, race, gender and LGBTQ+ identity through movement, storytelling and drag. Born visually impaired, they discovered dance at the Royal National College for the Blind and trained in contact improvisation, ballet, tango and more – late...