From the Library With Love

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 #Libraries INTRODUCTION Welcome 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

From the Library With Love is a arts podcast hosted by Kate Thompson, with 58 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #9

  ‘I escaped the Nazis then fixed Lancaster Bombers for the RAF.'

  May 6, 202559 minS3

  <p>Send us a text</p><p><br/></p><p>During the Second World War, Ruth Brook escaped Nazi persecution in Germany and followed her wartime sweetheart, a Lancaster Bomber into the RAF. As a WAAF, she quickly found a sense of her own purpose. </p><p>Ruth was offered a job as a cook, a typist or a flight mechanic. She picked up a spanner and her life began. From welding to hydraulics, WW2 was a intense training ground for a young woman starting out in life. In her 101 years Ruth has packed a lot in. From working as a...

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  Episode #8

  Jean Fullerton, policewoman and district nurse turned novelist on why there is no such thing as an ordinary life.

  Jan 18, 202555 minS3

  <p>Send us a text</p><p>Former policewoman and district nurse turned novelist, Jean Fullerton has written over 20 novels but recently published something a bit closer to home, her memoir, A Child of the East End. In conversation at the Write Idea Festival, Jean shared eye-watering stories of her childhood in Wapping, the curse of family secrets, bum-stamping and sexism in the police force and why we romanticise the past, Jean proves there is no such thing as a ordinary life. I started by asking her what made her bare her soul in the pages of a book…<br/><br...

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  Episode #7

  Author Louisa Treger investigates the audacious woman who tricked her way into a brutal insane asylum to expose the truth

  Jan 11, 202542 minS3

  <p>Send us a text</p><p>In the 19th century it was surprisingly easy for a woman to be consigned to the  misery of an asylum. Many in fact weren't actually mentally ill. <br/><br/>Husband tired of his wife? A woman who bore an illegitimate child? A woman who didn't want to marry the man her parents had chosen for her? Or anyone, in short, who didn't conform to the narrow standards of society.<br/><br/>Once a woman was incarcerated, it was almost impossible to get out of a place often described as 'death traps'.<br/><br/>A...

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  Episode #6

  British booksellers in the Blitz

  Dec 4, 20241h 8mS3

  <p>Send us a text</p><p><br/>Historical fiction author Kristy Cambron wears a lot of hats. <br/><br/>She's a Christy Award-winning author of historical fiction, including her bestselling novels, THE BUTTERFLY AND THE VIOLIN and THE PARIS DRESSMAKER, as well as nonfiction titles. She also serves as Vice President and literary agent with Gardner Literary, where she was named ACFW Agent of the Year in 2024.<br/><br/>Kristy squeezed in time to chat with me about our shared love of research and forgotten stories from the past. Her latest novel is a must read for those who c...

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  Episode #5

  What it's like to be a prison librarian? Neil Barclay invites us into HMP Thameside library in London.

  Nov 23, 202444 minS3

  <p>Send us a text</p><p>Neil Barclay is an award-winning civilian librarian at HMP Thameside. Nominated by prisoners, and described by his colleagues as “our library superstar”, Neil has been praised for the outstanding dedication, skill and creativity he has shown in transforming the prison’s library into a dynamic learning and resource centre, much valued by prisoners and staff, and described as “the envy of other prisons”. <br/><br/>Here he shares with us his passionate belief that books and reading have the power to rehabilitate and transform prisoners lives.</p><p>Thank you to our media partner: Fa...

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