Ep 11. Tony Schumacher and Chris Dowrick
**This episode contains explicit language (swearing) and discussion of suicide throughout which some listeners may find distressing.** In this episode we’ll hear from two events at Gravity and two di...
30 Nov 202258min
Ep 10. Frank Cottrell-Boyce
The author and screenwriter Frank Cottrell-Boyce has been a patron and supporter of The Reader for over a decade. During the summer, after his first post-Covid tour of schools around the UK to talk ab...
23 Nov 202226min
Ep 9: All I Want for Christmas
‘Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!’ Neil Gaiman If you need inspiration for ...
15 Dec 202132min
Ep 8. Making Space
When our Young Person’s Mentor Greg spoke to BBC Radio 5 Live on 30 September about Shared Reading, many listeners wrote in to say it was the most inspiring thing they’d ever heard on the radio. We ca...
8 Nov 202139min
Ep 7. What If?
The Reader Podcast is back after an extended break with an episode about being bold, taking risks and keeping an eye out for the unexpected. Gill Smith worked at The Reader’s Storybarn, our interacti...
18 Okt 202131min
Ep 6. Stories of Walking Away
What makes a poem great for Shared Reading? Again, we take a closer look at a single poem, this time Cecil Day Lewis’ ‘Walking Away’, and hear stories about how it what this poem has meant to group me...
8 Juli 202133min
Ep 5. Kei Miller
The title of this episode comes from a poem by award-winning poet, short-story writer, essayist and novelist Kei Miller. Kei was The Reader’s guest at an online event earlier this year to celebrate Se...
2 Juni 202129min
Ep 4. Joanne Harris
Over the years, staff and volunteers at The Reader have learned that there are five essential values or behaviours that are key to a great Shared Reading experience and one of them is: be kind. The Re...
14 Maj 20211h 14min
