Library staff member Lesley Conway runs a radio show each Wednesday 12:05pm-12:45pm on Eastern FM 99.1 called The Eastern Regional Library Show. Tune in this Wednesday for a great show.
On last week's show
Lyn Baines emerged out of a thick mist on the moor to bring us some recent arrivals to the collection. Memories of the storm by Marcia Willett is set on the moors of southern England, a story which moves between events during the second World War and today, teasing out relationships, misunderstandings and secrets of two women who were friends. Another favourite author of Lyn's is Margaret Foster, who began her writing career in the 1960's with Georgie Girl. Her latest book is Over about a family torn apart by the death of a teenage daughter. Finally, The yellow-lighted bookshop by Lewis Buzbee is a lovely indulgence for book lovers, an autobiographical memoir of a book salesman who loved, and still loves, spending time in bookshops.
Lyn and I chatted about the pleasure of listening to stories on CD and cassette tape, of which ERL has many hundred. There are a lot of Margaret Forster's books on CD, read by Susan Jameson, who Lyn says is an excellent reader. I recommend anything read by Prunella Scales, who did a particularly good job with junior stories by Eva Ibbotson, and has made many adult recordings, such as Summer at Fairacre by Miss Read and Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell.
---- Lesley
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