The Story Collider: Steve Crabtree - Painting A Nuclear Submarine

Steve Crabtree left school aged 15 in 1985 and started work as a painter & decorator in Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Limited in Barrow in Furness, where he painted nuclear submarines. Steve left the shipyard in 1992, went to Art College and after leaving college – and teaching music technology for a short time - started at the BBC in January 1999 as a junior researcher on ‘Tomorrow’s World’. Steve has produced and directed much of the BBC’s Science, Arts and Business programming, and made programs across all four BBC television channels. He is now the Editor of flagship BBC Science Strand ‘Horizon’ - now in its 52nd Year.

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Audio books , general idea

An audiobook (or talking book) is a recording of a text being read. A reading of the complete text is noted as "unabridged",
thousands of free audio books are available for the taking on the Web.
Spoken audio has been available in schools and public libraries and to a lesser extent in music shops since the 1930s.
Audiobooks are distributed on any audio format available, but primarily these are records, cassette tapes, CDs, MP3 CDs, downloadable digital formats
Audiobooks have been used to teach children to read and to increase reading comprehension. They are also useful for the blind.
Audiobooks are considered a valuable learning tool because of their format.
Abridged Audiobooks, and a cut-down version of the book, which may be anything to a quarter of its length to three quarters. Unabridged Audiobooks have every word of the book read.