We chat to Val Worley who is a great fan of talking books. Val is registered blind and says that talking books became a lifeline after the blow of being told she was losing her sight.

Before Simon Armitage became a poet and playwright he was a probation officer and before that he stacked shelves at a local supermarket. He has recently published The poetry of birds - with his friend and radio producer Tim Dee. Clare Carson caught up with him at the Cheltenham Festival.

Library user Sue McDermott has recently discovered giant print. We talked to her about how it's transformed the way she reads.

2009 Man Booker Prize shortlisted author, Sarah Waters, speaks to Robert Kirkwood from Insight Radio about her gothic ghost story "The Little Stranger"