Richard Charkin: On the Long Walk to Audiobooks
Logging more than 12 miles per day on London’s walkways, Richard Charkin’s pavement-pounding peripatetics have him exploring ‘the importance of audio and audiobooks.’
On London’s Oxford Street, February 25. Image – iStockphoto: VV Shots
By Richard Charkin | @RCharkin
‘I Started by Listening to Music’
I suffer from a pre-COVID-19 form of mild obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD. Actually, it’s even more acute during the pandemic. It’s called walking. I walk roughly 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) every day.
Richard Charkin
I walk for health, physical and mental. But 20 kilometers a day, which takes approximately four hours, can be boring, particularly when one is obliged not to venture too far from home because of lockdown restrictions. To counter the