The London Library Podcast: Recent Episodes
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The London Library Podcast features a leading writer or figure in the cultural world discussing the books which have shaped them. The first guest is social historian, author of bestselling The Five and London Library member Hallie Rubenhold.
Founded by Thomas Carlyle in 1841 The London Library is one of the world’s great lending libraries and a place of inspiration and support to writers, readers and scholars of all kinds. Well-known members and former members include: Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin, Virginia Woolf, EM Forster, George Eliot, TS Eliot and VS Naipaul. Current well-known members include Kazuo Ishiguro, Sarah Waters, Ian McEwan, Victoria Hislop, Tom Stoppard, Simon Schama, Max Hastings, Jessie Burton, Philippa Gregory and Raymond Antrobus.
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Musician, broadcaster, actor and presenter, Jarvis Cocker is the seventh guest on The London Library Podcast. Jarvis talks us through five books that have shaped his life to date.
Please note - this episode was recorded before COVID19 and social distancing measures.
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Rough Trade’s Nigel House takes us through the five books that have made an impact on him throughout his life. Surprisingly it includes no books on music but does feature stories from two past London Library members and the joy of cricket statistics.
Please note - this episode was recorded before COVID19 and social distancing measures.
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Publisher Valerie Brandes talks about identity, motherhood and the books that have shaped her life and career from moving to live in America, to deciding to move back to Hackney and setting up her own publishing business.
@valrey www.jacarandabooksartmusic.co.uk www.londonlibrary.co.uk @TheLondonLib
Ahsan Akbar is the co-founder of the Dhaka Literary Festival, a Poet and the owner of tea bar and shop Teatulia in Covent Garden where you can find their ‘living library’ bookshelf including some books selected by The London Library. Ahsan tells us which books got him into literature, which book got him out of banking and who encouraged him to read Virginia Woolf.
https://www.ahsanakbar.com www.londonlibrary.co.uk @TheLondonLib
Actor and rare book dealer Neil Pearson is the third guest on The London Library Podcast. He tells us about five books that have shaped his life, schooling and various career choices.
www.londonlibrary.co.uk @TheLondonLib twitter.com/RareNeilPearson www.neilpearsonrarebooks.com
The second guest of The London Library Podcast is best-selling author and London Library member Harriet Evans. Harriet is the author of twelve books - her latest is titled, 'The Garden of Lost and Found'.
Harriet has sold over a million copies worldwide and has been in the Top Ten twice. On this episode she discusses the books that have influenced her literary journey and what they mean to her.
www.londonlibrary.co.uk @TheLondonLib twitter.com/HarrietEvans https://harriet-evans.com
The first guest of The London Library Podcast is social historian, author of bestselling The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper and London Library member Hallie Rubenhold.
As well as discussing the books that have influenced Hallie’s journey and what they mean to her, she looks at the reaction to her bestselling The Five, including the trolling she’s received from Ripperologists, the need to tell lost women’s voices from history and gives a glimpse of the history behind the books that have shaped her.
www.londonlibrary.co.uk @TheLondonLib @HallieRubenhold www.hallierubenhold.com