Hitting the doormat today, a trifle late thanks to Britain's third-world postal system, is my latest "Talking Book", Robin Hood: The Deer Hunters, featuring Sam Troughton who manages not only to play his character, Much the Miller's Son, but pretty much everybody else, including a remarkable impersonation of Jonas Armstrong.

The word count on a Talking Book is only just over 10,000 words, making it a glorified short story in terms of an author's output. But it's a short story that can be delivere