On Reading is made up of three rather nosy friends who are curious about how, what and, most importantly, why readers read. The simplest way to find the answers to our questions was to ask – so we started knocking on people’s doors, and got them to tell us about their library.
Although reading is an act that most of us can perform, and many of us derive immense pleasure from doing so, our reasons for reading are as varied as our personalities.
It gives us great pleasure to share with you our encounters with the readers who so generously gave us their time.
BBC Radio 3
Literate
London Review Bookshop
Jamie Tennant
Caribbean Books and Authors
Magdalena Ball
Tom Sutcliffe
Shakespeare and Company
Shelf Life
Lannan Center
Research English At Durham
PodcastOne
PEN America
Pauline Walker
Patrick Fennell
Unbound
Jemma Birrell, Tablo Publishing
International Anthony Burgess Foundation
Poets & Writers
The Poetry Society
Shane Strange
Broken Dimanche Press
The Small Machine Talks
Reading Women
Emerging Writers' Festival
The TLS
Hamilton Review of Books / Alex Kerner
Modern Poetry in Translation Magazine
Damian Barr's Literary Salon
Damian Barr
UCTV
UCTV
Lunar Poetry Podcasts
C. R. Grimmer
Scottish Book Trust
Gloucester Writers Center
chillsatwillpodcast
The Swala Tribe
Libreria Bookshop
Granta Magazine
Dr. Andy Jones
92Y Unterberg Poetry Center
Scottish Poetry Library
Writers' Guild of Alberta
Roxie
Oxford University
Greenlight Bookstore
Passager
Jacke Wilson / The Podglomerate
Iris Murdoch Society
Lesley University
Antonia Caraveteanu & Ileana Grigorescu
None
Mr B's
Mamaroneck Public Radio
Asymptote Podcast
EUPL
Rick Whitaker
David Caddy
Avren Keating
FaberBooks
LiveWriters
Literary Friction
WNYC, New York Public Radio
Air/Light Editors, David L. Ulin, Aaron Winslow
Guardian
dublab & Onassis LA
Jane Sandell
Laura Szaro Kopinski
Words on a Wire
Charlott Schönwetter
Get Lit - Words Ignite
Artica Svalbard
krcbproduction@gmail.com
Watershed Lit
Nigel Beale
Teachers Talking Texts
UCTV
UCTV
Monocle
The Book Club Review
Wigtown Book Fest
Lannan Foundation
Behind the Prose
RADIOKISMET
Rebecca Markwick
Robin Houghton & Peter Kenny
The Sewanee Review
Bare Fiction
The American Writers Museum
Emirates Literature Foundation
Santo Cazzati, Di Cousens, George O'Hara, Brendan Bonsack and Carmen Main.
National Centre for Writing
cruzfolio.com
La Piccioletta Barca
Cardboard Box Productions, Inc.
Omar Kholeif
Kim/Irene/Sarah
Jeff Sommerfeld from Sky Island Podcasts
Anna Baillie-Karas, Annie Waters and Amanda Hayes