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.
Posted: March 27th, 2012 | Author:ptyler| Comments Off
On Saturday 12th May, The Reading Room once again takes to the stage with a special LIVE radio broadcast, this time from the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre. We’ll again be featuring the best up and coming performers in spoken word and poetry, as well as live music… plus a very special guest: star of Red Dwarf, Scrapheap Challenge and Carpool, Robert Llewellyn! Robert will be talking to host Paul Tyler about his work and career, including his new book News From Gardenia.
The show starts at 7pm (live on air at 7.30pm) on Saturday 12th May at the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre (LPAC). Tickets cost just £5 (£5.50 with booking fee) and are available here.
Posted: March 19th, 2012 | Author:ptyler| Comments Off
After a tense wait, the results of the European Podcast Awards have finally been announced – and we’re proud to say we came second in the UK Professional category, beating podcasts from BBC Radio 4′s Today Programme, Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time and The Guardian. We were only pipped to the post by the hugely popular Answer Me This podcast.
We actually received the highest number of public votes in our category, so a big thank you to everyone who took the time to vote for us.
That’s this Sunday 10am-12noon GMT, repeated Tuesday 7pm-9pm GMT on Siren 107.3FM in Lincoln or around the world right here at www.sirenonline.co.uk. The podcast version will be available after the Tuesday repeat.
Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author:ptyler| Comments Off
Yes, we know the last one was labelled as ROOM 20 – but this time it really is ROOM 20! In this programme, performance poet Luke Wright talks about his work and the trials of curating the poetry arena at the Latitude Festival, and we have a preview of his new spoken word album We’re All In This Together (available now from iTunes and shortly from Nasty Little Press). Our short story comes from Flick author Abigail Tarttelin, we have poetry from Andrew Goulding, another nomination for our 101 Books To Read Before You Die, and Jamie MacKay brings us his Musings of a Muddled Mind.
**SPOILER ALERT: The interview with Matthew Reilly contains spoilers, including revelations about the deaths of characters in past Scarecrow books, so if you’re not up to date with those books, you might want to skip 19m 35s – to 21m 05s!**
Posted: February 3rd, 2012 | Author:ptyler| Comments Off
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.
Posted: February 1st, 2012 | Author:ptyler| Comments Off
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.
, Booker prize nominated author Jon McGregor talks about his new collection of short stories 
, we get another nomination for our list of 
author John Osborne about poetry and his new one man show John Peel’s Shed, Niki Valentine (
) provides our short story, we have flash fiction from Abigail Tarttelin (
) and crime author Elly Griffiths (
) adds her choice to our list of 
, bestselling action thriller writer 