Welcome to The Reader Podcast. The Reader is a national charity bringing about a Reading Revolution so that everyone can experience and enjoy great literature, which we believe is a tool for helping humans survive and live well. Through our global Shared Reading movement, powered by 1,000 volunteers and many partnerships, we bring thousands of people together every month through weekly Shared Reading groups. Our podcast is for anyone who loves books and believes they can be powerful tools for change, and wants to hear more of the powerful, personal responses that reading can provide. It will feature great guests, conversations and thoughts about books and reading, and show how reading together improves wellbeing, strengthens communities and sparks the change needed in the world. The Reader is a registered charity and we rely on the generous support of individuals and organisations to help us change lives through Shared Reading around the UK. Please visit www.thereader.org.uk to donate and find out how you can get involved with our work. We are grateful for the kind support of our core funders Arts Council England, National Lottery Community Fund, the players of People’s Postcode Lottery and the Steve Morgan Foundation.
Episodes
Dec 12, 2024
Dec 12, 2024
11 min
Welcome to our Festive Calendar, a special series of The Reader Podcast. Every day this December we will share with you a seasonal poem or a short extract from a novel or story, read by one of our staff or volunteer Reader Leaders.
Today's reading is an extract from 'What Christmas Is, As We Grow Older' by Charles Dickens. It's read by Jen Jarman, who works for The Reader.
Dickens at Christmas at Bookshop.org
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Production by Chris Lynn. Music by Chris Lynn & Frank Johnson
Dec 11, 2024
Dec 11, 2024
3 min
Welcome to our Festive Calendar, a special series of The Reader Podcast. Every day this December we will share with you a seasonal poem or a short extract from a novel or story, read by one of our staff or volunteer Reader Leaders.
Today's reading is the poem 'Snowdrops' by Louise Glück. It's read by Angela Macmillan, the editor of The Reader anthologies A Little, Aloud, A Little, Aloud for Children and A Little, Aloud with Love.
A Little, Aloud at Bookshop.org
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Production by Chris Lynn. Music by Chris Lynn & Frank Johnson
Dec 10, 2024
Dec 10, 2024
4 min
Welcome to our Festive Calendar, a special series of The Reader Podcast. Every day this December we will share with you a seasonal poem or a short extract from a novel or story, read by one of our staff or volunteer Reader Leaders.
Today's reading is the poem 'Ode to Winter' by Gillian Clarke. It's read by Georgia Barrow, who works for The Reader.
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Production by Chris Lynn. Music by Chris Lynn & Frank Johnson
Dec 9, 2024
Dec 9, 2024
9 min
Welcome to our Festive Calendar, a special series of The Reader Podcast. Every day this December we will share with you a seasonal poem or a short extract from a novel or story, read by one of our staff or volunteer Reader Leaders.
Today's reading is an extract from the novel The Mouse & His Child by Russell Hoban. It's read by Clare Ellis, who works for The Reader.
The Mouse & His Child at Bookshop.org
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Production by Chris Lynn. Music by Chris Lynn & Frank Johnson
Dec 8, 2024
Dec 8, 2024
3 min
Welcome to our Festive Calendar, a special series of The Reader Podcast. Every day this December we will share with you a seasonal poem or a short extract from a novel or story, read by one of our staff or volunteer Reader Leaders.
Today's reading is an extract from the poem 'The House of Falling Leaves' by William Stanley Braithwaite. It's read by Jen Chapman, who works for The Reader.
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Production by Chris Lynn. Music by Chris Lynn & Frank Johnson
Dec 7, 2024
Dec 7, 2024
17 min
Welcome to our Festive Calendar, a special series of The Reader Podcast. Every day this December we will share with you a seasonal poem or a short extract from a novel or story, read by one of our staff or volunteer Reader Leaders.
Today's reading is an extract from the story 'The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle' by Arthur Conan Doyle. It's read by Varinder Khanna, who leads a Shared Reading group in London.
Full story at Project Gutenberg
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Production by Chris Lynn. Music by Chris Lynn & Frank Johnson
Dec 6, 2024
Dec 6, 2024
3 min
Welcome to our Festive Calendar, a special series of The Reader Podcast. Every day this December we will share with you a seasonal poem or a short extract from a novel or story, read by one of our staff or volunteer Reader Leaders.
Today's reading is Six Winter Haiku by Bashō, translated from the Japanese by Robert Hass. They are read by Kara Orford, who works for The Reader.
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Production by Chris Lynn. Music by Chris Lynn & Frank Johnson
Dec 5, 2024
Dec 5, 2024
8 min
Welcome to our Festive Calendar, a special series of The Reader Podcast. Every day this December we will share with you a seasonal poem or a short extract from a novel or story, read by one of our staff or volunteer Reader Leaders.
Today's reading is an extract from Kilvert's Diary. It's read by Anna McCracken, who works for The Reader.
Kilvert's Diary at Bookshop.org
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Production by Chris Lynn. Music by Chris Lynn & Frank Johnson
Dec 4, 2024
Dec 4, 2024
3 min
Welcome to our Festive Calendar, a special series of The Reader Podcast. Every day this December we will share with you a seasonal poem or a short extract from a novel or story, read by one of our staff or volunteer Reader Leaders
Today's reading is the poem 'One Evening' by William Stafford . It's read by Sam Owen who works for The Reader.
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Production by Chris Lynn. Music by Chris Lynn & Frank Johnson
Dec 3, 2024
Dec 3, 2024
3 min
Welcome to our Festive Calendar, a special series of The Reader Podcast. Every day this December we will share with you a seasonal poem or a short extract from a novel or story, read by one of our staff or volunteer Reader Leaders.
Today's reading is the poem 'A Winter's Day' by Paul Laurence Dunbar. It's read by Erin Carlstrom who works for The Reader.
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Production by Chris Lynn. Music by Chris Lynn & Frank Johnson