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06-06-2019 · Bonus

Joining the library: Laurie Penny

The sentence that set you on a new path. The library book you struggled to take back. The writing that made you. Author, journalist and screenwriter Laurie Penny join us to discuss what Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre means to her. Contains spoilers…

06-06-2019 · Bonus

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12 min.
06-11-2020

"Excuse me I haven't finished”: Feminist Fightback

Actor and activist Jameela Jamil has unfinished business. She joins British Library curator Polly Russell to explore the intersecting realms of mental health and body image. Polly introduces Jameela to Susie Orbach who created the very first Women’s Therapy Centre in the UK. What follows is a fascinating conversation between a frontline feminist waging war against the patriarchy since the 1970s and a woman working against body shaming, oppression and injustice today. How have things changed? What’s still the same? And why is women’s mental health still an urgent conversation we should be having? Unfinished Business podcast series is generously supported by Joanna and Graham Barker and The Eccles Centre for American Studies. A Pixiu Production.

06-11-2020

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37 min.
16-01-2020

Do librarians dream of electric cranes?

To start the new year, we take a look into the future. Meet the British Library’s robot assistants, get coding at Oxfordshire County Library and take the long view with Norway’s Future Library. Plus we visit our Flashback Project in Boston Spa, which ensures digital content is preserved and accessible even after the original technology has become obsolete.

16-01-2020

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31 min.
30-01-2020 · Bonus

Joining the library: Anab Jain

The designer, futurist, filmmaker and educator tells us about one of her favourite books: The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin (1974).

30-01-2020 · Bonus

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11 min.
07-11-2019

‘An embassy for humanity’

Libraries are good company. This month we borrow some people from the Human Library, join the Little Free Library book-sharing movement and visit a sports academy working with young people which received support from our Business & IP Centre.

07-11-2019

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35 min.
27-02-2020 · Bonus

Joining the library: Anne Fine

Award winning writer of Madame Doubtfire and Goggle-Eyes, Anne Fine OBE joins us today to discuss ‘The Man Who Loved Children’ by Christina Stead (1940).

27-02-2020 · Bonus

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12 min.
20-06-2019

Love is love

Journey to New York for a milestone 50th anniversary, hear stories of love and identity in wartime Britain, and meet the drag queens and kings making library story hours fabulous.

20-06-2019

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32 min.
29-08-2019 · Bonus

Joining the library: Megan Hine

‘It just opened up this whole new world to me.’ Adventurer and survival expert Megan Hine tells us about a book that influenced her, Land of the Long White Cloud: Maori Myths, Tales and Legends by Kiri Te Kanawa (1989).

29-08-2019 · Bonus

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11 min.
23-05-2019

The library is open

‘The freedom to dream. That’s the most beautiful thing about a library. No matter who you are, there’s a book for you.’ We take a look at a world-famous document that’s a powerful symbol of liberty, hear how the prison library at HMP Nottingham is working with those who’ve lost their freedom, and travel to Nepal where a library in a remote village is helping women vulnerable to human trafficking.

23-05-2019

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32 min.
15-08-2019

Have library, will travel

Don’t be a numpty: have a skeg at our latest episode and get your lugholes around some UK accents and dialects, join bookmobile Booky McBookface on the Scottish islands of Orkney, and discover the library boldly going where no library has gone before.

15-08-2019

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33 min.

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