57 Episodes

  1. Vanishing Voices of Wartime London. Meet the proud cockneys who survived being blown up, machine-gunned and being buried alive!

    Published: 21/10/2023

  2. I was born in a Nazi concentration camp

    Published: 20/10/2023

  3. Discover the hidden history of an underground village in East London. Join Siddy Holloway, presenter of Secrets of the Underground and wartime Blitz survivor Ray as we celebrate a unique wartime commu

    Published: 13/10/2023

  4. Libraries Week - Saturday. The surprising history of libraries in wartime. Bodice-rippers in the blackout, steamy shelter novels and how wartime women changed the way we read today.

    Published: 07/10/2023

  5. Libraries Week - Friday. Meet the librarian documenting the weird and wonderful things she finds left behind in library books! "Each item is an anonymous glimpse into someone’s life"

    Published: 06/10/2023

  6. Libraries Week - Thursday. It's National Poetry Day. Karen Smith of the National Poetry Library opens the doors to her magical library

    Published: 05/10/2023

  7. Libraries Week - Wednesday. Powerful. Seditious. Pioneering. Meet the librarian breaking the rules.

    Published: 04/10/2023

  8. Libraries Week - Tuesday. What's it like to be a librarian in the Outer Hebrides?

    Published: 03/10/2023

  9. Libraries Week - Monday. Meet the husband and wife librarian team smashing the sssh stereotype.

    Published: 02/10/2023

  10. How to write under three pen names, by author Becca Mascull

    Published: 01/10/2023

  11. Underground libraries and clandestine book clubs! New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London, Madeline Martin, gets up close to history and tells us why she keeps a magnifying g

    Published: 29/09/2023

  12. Author of The Midwife of Auschwitz, Anna Stuart on uncovering the torment of the Abba star with the Nazi father and the courageous midwife who delivered 3000 babies in Auschwitz.

    Published: 28/09/2023

  13. Author Gill Paul uncovers a ruthless rivalry, scandal and the great clash of the beauty titans!

    Published: 22/09/2023

  14. Tattooist of Auschwitz author Heather Morris on how she unlocked a decades old secret

    Published: 17/09/2023

  15. 100-year-old Bletchley Park Codebreaker, Charlotte 'Betty' Webb on keeping her wartime secrets

    Published: 17/09/2023

  16. Bestselling author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Christy Lefteri on learning to write what she feels, the power of storytelling and how happiness is found in a Greek deli on the Piccadilly Line.

    Published: 26/08/2023

  17. Trailer

    Published: 20/08/2023

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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