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Through our global Shared Reading movement, powered by 1,000 volunteers and many partnerships, we bring thousands of people together every month through weekly reading aloud groups. We use literature to connect people to themselves and others, develop a shared language for our inner lives, and spark the social and personal change needed in the world.
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The Reader Bookshelf
Listen in to a Shared Reading group discussing a title from The Reader Bookshelf, our annual curated list of literature for Shared Reading.
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Among the Trees of Calderstones Park
Travel around the world with poetry and the trees of Calderstones Park in Liverpool
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Shakespeare North Playhouse
Join us as we read a scene from ’King Lear’ with the Shared Reading group at Shakespeare North Playhouse in Prescot.
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The Garden Theatre
Exploring the history of a very special outdoor theatre in Liverpool, at the home of The Reader in Calderstones Park
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The Reader's Storybarn
The Storybarn is a one-of-a-kind reading retreat for children and their grown-ups. Little ones can let their imaginations run wild, discovering new stories to share, and taking part in unique experiences, alongside arts and crafts. In this episode we visit a Tiny Acorns session, a group where parents and carers spend time at The Storybarn with their newborns, picking up handy tips on reading with their little ones and enjoying Shared Reading together. We hear from the parents who attend these groups, as well as the Storybarn staff themselves, who give an insight into how the magic is made.
Visit the Storybarn page on our website
'When Giving is All We Have' by Alberto Rios -
Now We Sit With It
Episode 17 - Now We Sit With It
The title of this episode is taken from a new painting created for permanent display in Calderstones Mansion House by Liverpool-based artist Sumuyya Khader. The artwork responds to new research by a historian and Reader heritage volunteers into links between the Mansion House, its owners and the transatlantic slave economy. In this episode we speak to Robert, one of the volunteer researchers, and to Sumuyya Khader, to hear about the process of uncovering and responding to this research.
This episode has been funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund as part of ‘Making Meaning at Calderstones’ – The Reader’s two-year project to uncover and celebrate the unique stories of our reading home.
More information about ‘Now We Sit With It’
Calderstones links to transatlantic slavery – what we know (The Reader website)
Sumuyya Khader
‘The White Man’s Guilt’ by James Baldwin in Dark Days (Penguin)