Episodes

  • 'Karla's Choice' by Nick Harkaway
    Nov 4 2024

    On this episode of #AudioBookClub, a brand new novel featuring John le Carré’s superspy George Smiley, written by his son Nick Harkaway, read by Sir Simon Russell-Beale.

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

    On this episode…

    ‘Karla's Choice: A John le Carré Novel

    A: Nick Harkaway, John le Carré

    N: Simon Russell Beale

    L: 10 hrs and 42 mins

    P: Penguin Audio

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    This Time Next Year

    A Life of Positive Thinking

    By: David Jason

    Narrated by: David Jason

    Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins

    Unabridged Audiobook

    Release date: 10-10-24

    Language: English

    Publisher: Penguin Audio




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    39 mins
  • ‘Sonny Boy: A Memoir’ by Al Pacino
    Oct 28 2024

    On this episode of #AudioBookClub, we head to The Bronx of the late 1940s and the sepia-tinted alleyways and rooftops of the tenement buildings where a young Alfredo James Pacino and his ragtag gang of pre-pubescent ruffians ran wild…

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

    On this episode…

    ‘Sonny Boy: A Memoir’

    A: Al Pacino

    P: Al Pacino

    L: 12 hrs and 28 mins

    P: Penguin Audio

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    Karla's Choice: A John le Carré Novel

    A: Nick Harkaway, John le Carré

    N: Simon Russell Beale

    L: 10 hrs and 42 mins

    P: Penguin Audio



    @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom

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    38 mins
  • 'I Haven't Been Entirely Honest With You' by Miranda Hart
    Oct 21 2024

    On this episode of #AudioBookClub, some life affirming advice from British Comedy National Treasure Miranda Hart

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

    On this episode…

    I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You

    W: Miranda Hart

    N: Miranda Hart

    L: 10 hrs and 9 mins

    Release date: 10-10-24

    P: Penguin Audio



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    33 mins
  • Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
    Oct 17 2024



    On this episode of #AudioBookClub, in perhaps the biggest week for new releases in the publishing calendar, we retreat to 2011 to curl up in a corner with Steve’s favourite ‘comfort audiobook’ of all time.

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

    On this episode…

    Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

    W: Walter Isaacson

    N: Dylan Baker, Walter Isaacson (introduction)

    L: 25 hrs and 3 mins

    Release date: 24-10-11

    P: Little, Brown Audio

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    48 mins
  • Bonus: Ben MacIntyre Interview
    Oct 14 2024

    To coincide with the release of 'The Siege', Matt had a conversation with Ben MacIntyre covering his work with particular focus on Colditz and previewing his latest work on the events in London back in 1981.

    This episode is paired up with our review of 'The Siege' that shold also be showing up on your feed.

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    Audiobook details:

    The Siege - The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama

    A: Ben Macintyre

    N: Ben Macintyre

    L: 14 hrs and 27 mins

    R: 12-09-24

    P: Penguin Audio

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    34 mins
  • The Siege by Ben MacIntyre
    Oct 14 2024

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

    This episode sees Matt and Steve go back to 1980, dredging up their memories as sub-10 year olds of the Iranian Embassy siege in London.

    Ben MacIntryre is back with another epic movie-like recounting of the story from those who were there, taking us from the domestic to the global, with lots of snooker thrown in.

    What would you like to see him tackle next?

    Plus - your comfort audiobook suggestions please!

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    Audiobook details:

    The Siege - The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama

    A: Ben Macintyre

    N: Ben Macintyre

    L: 14 hrs and 27 mins

    R: 12-09-24

    P: Penguin Audio

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    38 mins
  • We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
    Oct 1 2024

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

    On this episode…

    We Solve Murders

    A: Richard Osman

    P: Nicola Walker

    L: 10 hrs and 33 mins

    Release date: 12-09-24

    P: Penguin Audio

    On this week’s #AudioBookClub we celebrate the release of Richard Osman’s fourth novel.

    His first three novels were set primarily in a retirement village in the Kent countryside “where the Waitrose delivery vans clink with wine and repeat prescriptions every time they pass over the cattle grid”

    Novel number four is set on a slightly larger stage…


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    43 mins
  • Yellowface by Rebecca Kuang
    Sep 25 2024

    Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks for discerning punters like you.

    On this episode, We are going to review two different audio versions of one original text.

    The text under our audio microscope today is “Yellow Face” by Chinese born American hot shot young author R.F. Kuang

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    31 mins