Nigel Beale's Biblio File Podcast

THE BIBLIO FILE is a leading podcast that examines "the book" and book culture. Hosted by NIGEL BEALE it features wide ranging conversations with writers, poets, book publishers, booksellers, book editors, book collectors, book makers, book scholars, book critics, book designers, book publicists, literary agents and other best practitioners who busy themselves with the world of books.Feedback or suggestions? Please email notabenebeale@gmail.com thebibliofile.substack.com

Nigel Beale's Biblio File Podcast is a arts podcast hosted by Nigel Beale, with 540 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.

Nigel Beale hosts Nigel Beale's Biblio File Podcast, a arts show with 540 episodes published.

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  Dan Morgan on his transformation from Collector to Bookseller

  May 6, 202649 minS0

  <p>Ever since writing this article on collecting teapots, for my friend Tony Martins, I’ve been thinking about my great uncle Sir Arthur Church. I had no idea he was such a wheel in collecting circles back at the turn of the 20th century. All I knew was that he’d discovered a colour (in 1869. A bright red, water-soluble pigment called Turacin ( Turacin is found in the feathers of West African birds known as Turacos)</p><p>had a rock named after him (a mineral actually, called Churchite), and wrote some books on food </p><p>Turns out he was...

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  Nazi Newspaper Propaganda and Stephen Miller's Twitter Feed

  Apr 9, 20261h 6mS0

  <p>Judging from Stephen Miller’s Twitter feed, a ton of immigrants living in the United States are dangerous criminals who need to be incarcerated, exterminated or, at the very least, deported. His is a spigot of malice that drops toilet bowls full of racist hatred over the heads of “foreigners;” Miller’s tweets are pulling the same carts that Nazi-owned newspapers did years ago in Germany, during the 20s and 30s, spreading the manure of anti-Semitism. This comparison came to me a month ago or so when I was in Dresden perusing the local flea market </p><p>scene. </p><p>In...

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  James Daunt on the future: his own and Barnes & Nobles'

  Feb 18, 202655 minS0

  <p>The first time out we talked about the miracles he worked at Waterstones. Then we looked at his early plans for Barnes & Noble. Now James Daunt and I discuss the future: where his bookstore chains are headed, when B&N is going public, how employee pay scales have changed, why entrepreneurship enlivens everything, when he plans to retire and what he’s going to do with himself. </p><p>Plus we get even more personal: how does a busy guy like James combat loneliness, why are so many billionaires pedophiles, what are the secrets to long a marriage, and ha...

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  Bloomsbury's Nigel Newton on Gold-Digging, Fast Cars, Friendship, and Finding Harry Potter

  Nov 24, 20251h 3mS0

  <p>Bloomsbury Publishing has been in business for almost forty years. Last year it earned £361.0 million. Over the past five years it’s taken in more than £1.4 Billion. It’s one of, if not the most successful publishing ventures of the past century. How does this work? I asked Founder and Chief Executive Nigel Newton. </p><p>Here we talk about, among other things, Frank Newton — Nigel’s prospecting, race car-driving grandfather; about Peter, his wine-making father; about book publishing and stock picking; the acquisition A&C Black; The Garrick Club; ‘romantasy’ and Sarah J. Maas; Liz Calder; floatation in 1994; aspiring to be...

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  Scott McIntyre and the Brutal Reality that is Canadian Publishing

  Nov 14, 20251h 2mS0

  <p>Publishing books in Canada is a punishing, risky business. Even if your little enterprise makes it through, surviving years of ups and downs, in the end nobody will buy it. Not even the Americans (who have bought everything else in Canada it seems), because viability is tied to Canadian government-approved domestic list-specific grants. Pretty bleak the whole thing. </p><p>Not to say that being a publisher in Canada isn’t a damned good time, as Scott McIntyre’s lively new memoir A Precarious Endeavour ( not the be confused with The Perilous Trade - published fittingly or not by PRH...

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