From the Library With Love
A podcast by Kate Thompson
57 Episodes
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Meet the French librarian who trained as a Board Game Librarian and revolutionised her library in lockdown!
Published: 11/04/2024 -
Meet the librarians who rescued the books the Nazis burnt and plundered
Published: 23/03/2024 -
Rounding up randy runaway sheep and delivering twin lambs whilst making gravy. Welcome to the multitasking world of the Devon Shepherdess.
Published: 16/03/2024 -
Travel back to Victorian Brighton and discover a shadowy world of erotic tableaux, gangsters and music-hall artistes in Jacquie Bloese's atmospheric new novel
Published: 09/03/2024 -
Channel Islands under Occupation. From the library to the post office, Jersey is an island simmering with stories and secrets
Published: 17/02/2024 -
Famine. Revolution. Rebellion. A history of Paris, seen through the windows of a tiny Montmartre bakery
Published: 10/02/2024 -
School librarian by day, novelist by night. Meet the author who threw herself from an aeroplane in the name of research.
Published: 03/02/2024 -
The French resistance heroine who stole my heart. An exclusive glimpse into the research and writing of best-selling historical fiction author Natasha Lester.
Published: 30/01/2024 -
'I married the soldier who helped liberate me from Bergen-Belsen' On Holocaust Memorial Day, survivor Renee Salt shares her astonishing story.
Published: 27/01/2024 -
Spies, espionage and secrets in an antiquarian bookshop. Author Louise Fein shares the true story behind her propulsive new novel, The London Bookshop Affair,
Published: 20/01/2024 -
What happened to the children stolen by the Nazis? USA Today bestselling author Andie Newton shares a heartbreaking wartime story.
Published: 13/01/2024 -
Britain's best-loved saga writer Nancy Revell on how Gone with the Wind changed her life and the secrets to writing books that readers take to their hearts.
Published: 01/01/2024 -
Come inside one of London’s dreamiest churches, the famous St Bride's on Fleet Street and hear how a Blitz raid revealed a secret charnel house and the ruins of Roman pavement, plus it’s surprising li
Published: 23/12/2023 -
Could you be living over a plague pit? Meet the cemetery and death historian who uncovered a plague pit under Argos. Sam Perrin hunts out London's forgotten graves and shares what the dead can teach u
Published: 16/12/2023 -
On National Letter Writing Day, meet the woman who collects forgotten letters. " In attics, drawers and shoe boxes under beds there are hundreds of stories waiting to be told."
Published: 07/12/2023 -
'I sat on the train & wondered if i’d ever see my family again!’ On the 85th anniversary of the Kindertransport scheme, which saved 10,000 children from the Nazis, 97-year-old Gabriele Keenaghan share
Published: 02/12/2023 -
Meet the Guinea Pig Club. The astonishing story of the Allied Airmen who formed WW2’s most unique club. A tale of unsung heroines, pioneering surgery and sex in the linen cupboard!
Published: 24/11/2023 -
Who was the real Ronnie Biggs? Sixty years on from the Great Train Robbery, his biographer and friend gives us a glimpse into his colourful and audacious life.
Published: 18/11/2023 -
Confessions of a ghost-writer. Meet the bestselling writer you've never heard of as she reveals publishing's best-kept secret.
Published: 11/11/2023 -
A deathbed plea from my mother – ‘I don’t want to be forgotten’.
Published: 03/11/2023
Welcome to my library of interviews...Librarians, bestselling authors and our wartime generation sharing their love of books, reading and some extraordinary stories . #Hidden History #Forgotten women #Bibliotherapy #LibrariesINTRODUCTIONWelcome to From the Library With Love. A podcast for anyone whose life has been changed by reading. I’m Kate Thompson. Wonderful, transformative things happen when you set foot in a library. In 2019 I uncovered the true story of a forgotten Underground library, built along the tracks of a Tube tunnel during the Blitz. As stories go, it was irresistible and the result was, The Little Wartime Library, my seventh novel.Bethnal Green Public Library, where the novel is set was 100 years old in October 2022, and to celebrate the centenary of this grand old lady, funded by library philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, I set myself the challenge of interviewing 100 library workers. Speaking with one library worker for every year this library has been serving its community seemed a good way to mark this auspicious occasion. Because who better to explain the worth of a hundred-year-old library, than librarians themselves!I wanted to explore the enduring value of libraries and reading. I quickly realised that librarians have the best stories. My research led me to librarians with over fifty years of experience and MBEs, to the impressive women who manage libraries in prisons and schools, to those in remote Scottish islands. From poetry libraries overlooking the wide sweep of the Thames, to the 16th century Shakespeare’s Library in Stratford, via the small but mighty Leadhills Miners’ Library. This podcast was born out of those eye-opening conversations, because as Denise from Tower Hamlets Library told me: 'If you want to see the world, don't join the Army, become a librarian!'I’ll also be talking to international bestselling authors and some remarkable wartime women about their favourite libraries, stories, the craft of writing and the book that helped them to view the world differently. Come and join me as I delve into the secrets behind the stacks.Podcasts edited by Ben Veasey at media-crews.co.uk Image by Julie Price
