Behind the Mic Podcast

This week we’re reairing episodes featuring some of our favorite audiobooks we’ve covered on Behind the Mic. Hear host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Robin Whitten discuss Cynthia Erivo’s spectacular narration that gets the emotional tone of this story exactly right. She is nothing short of amazing as she narrates Patti Callahan’s historical novella about Florence Nightingale. Callahan examines a few years of the famous nurse’s life as she struggled with shedding Victorian expectations and fulfilling her calling to reform health care. The storytelling makes every detail and emotional point shine. Whether it’s the color of a dress or the disapproval from a royal minister, Erivo connects listeners to each scene. An exceptional listening experience.

Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFile’s website. Published by Audible, Inc.

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Support for AudioFile’s Behind the Mic comes from Naxos AudioBooks. Andrew Wincott narrates News from Nowhere. William Morris’s best-known prose work, News from Nowhere describes a humane socialist future as experienced by William Guest, who is transplanted there from the 19th century. Set in London and Oxfordshire, the novel takes place in 2090, over a century after a revolutionary upheaval. It remains a distinctive literary contribution to the concept of the utopian ideal.