First Sunday of the month 10am - 12pm, Following Tuesday (Repeat) 7pm - 9pm
The literary taste of Lincoln – and beyond. Paul Tyler presents a monthly collections of book reviews, author interviews, poetry readings and the latest things locally in the world of literature.
This month, The Reading Room Book Group take a look at stand-up comedian Stewart Lee’s new mini-book, The ‘If You Prefer A Milder Comedian, Please Ask For One’ EP.Performance poet Luke Wright talks about his work and the trials of curating the poetry arena at the Latitude Festival, bestselling action thriller writer Matthew Reilly discusses killing off well loved characters and transferring his high-octane books to the screen, and our short story this month comes from Abigail Tarttelin.We have poetry from Andrew Goulding, more nominations for 101 Books To Read Before You Die, and Jamie MacKay brings us his Musings of a Muddled Mind.
All this, plus your local What’s On guide to literary events in and around Lincoln and the usual eclectic mix of music – that’s this Sunday 5th February 10am-12noon, repeated Tuesday 7th February 7pm-9pm on Siren 107.3FM in Lincoln, or listen online around the world right here at www.sirenonline.co.uk.
In this short video podcast, Paul takes to the stage of the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre to try out his stand-up skills and look ahead to this month’s Reading Room Book Group where we’ll be talking about Stewart Lee’s The ‘If You Prefer a Milder Comedian Please Ask For One’ EP.
Don’t forget to tune in to the live show on Sunday 5th February at 10am on Siren 107.3FM or around the world here at Sirenonline. The podcast version will be available from Tuesday 7th February.
Posted: December 22nd, 2011 | Author:ptyler| Comments Off
On ROOM 18 we talk to author Niki Valentine about her psychological horror The Haunted, we look back to some of our favourite books of the last year and Gill Hart gives us a sneak peek at some of the titles to look forward to in 2012 (click here for more on this…). Our atmospheric short story comes from Richard Barter, and we have poetry from Elaine Kazimierczuk and John Welsh and another addition to our 101 Books To Read Before You Die.
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Posted: November 27th, 2011 | Author:ptyler| Comments Off
On December’s show The Reading Room Book Group will be reviewing 1Q84: Books 1 and 2 – the blockbuster international bestseller from Haruki Murakami. Don’t forget to tune in at 10am on Sunday 4th December on Sirenonline.co.uk. The podcast version will be available from Tuesday 6th December. In the meantime, here’s a quick video preview…
Posted: November 22nd, 2011 | Author:ptyler| Comments Off
On our second programme for November we speak to performance poet, comedian and musician John Hegley, historian Tracy Borman talks about her new book on William the Conquerer’s wife, Matilda: Queen of the Conquerer, we have poetry from Elaine Kazimierczuk, writer and comedian Tony Hawks gives us his nomination for 101 Books to Read Before You Die, and Jamie Mackay brings us his Musings of a Muddled Mind.
To listen online click on the player below or go here to subscribe to our feed. And don’t forget to join us for our next live show on Sunday 4th December 10am-12noon on Siren 107.3FM or right here on Sirenonline…
Posted: November 14th, 2011 | Author:ptyler| Comments Off
On the first of our new twice-monthly podcasts The Reading Room Book Group discuss The Bees, Carole Ann Duffy’s first collection of poetry since becoming Poet Laureate. We also talk to travel writer Peter Kerr (Snowball Oranges) about his move towards writing fiction, our Remembrance-Sunday themed short story comes from Jim Gotts, and actress and author Abigail Tarttelin (Flick) gives us her nomination for 101 Books To Read Before You Die.
To listen online click on the player below or go here to subscribe. And don’t forget our next podcast will be along just 2 weeks from now….
Posted: November 5th, 2011 | Author:ptyler| Comments Off
This month on The Reading Room we talk to performance poet, comedian and musician John Hegley, travel writer Peter Kerr tells us about his move into writing fiction, historian Tracy Borman talks about her new book on William the Conquerer’s wife, Matilda: Queen of the Conquerer, and The Reading Room Book Group discuss The Bees, Carole Ann Duffy’s first collection of poetry since becoming Poet Laureate. Our short story this month comes from Jim Gotts, we have poetry from Elaine Kazimierczuk, more nominations for 101 Books to Read Before You Die, and Jamie Mackay brings us his Musings of a Muddled Mind. All this plus your local What’s On Guide and the usual eclectic mix of Sunday morning music.
That’s this Sunday 6th November 10am-12noon, repeated Tuesday 8th November 7-9pm on Siren 107.3FM in Lincoln and around the world right here at www.sirenonline.co.uk.
Posted: October 18th, 2011 | Author:ptyler| Comments Off
In our first ever video blog, The Reading Room’s Paul Tyler talks about his reluctance to embrace poetry ahead of our review of Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s The Bees in November’s show…
Don’t forget to tune in on Sunday 6th November 10am-12noon, repeated Tuesday 8th November 7pm-9pm on Siren 107.3FM or right here on Siren Online.
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