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Another new episode from our sister programme SPOILER - to subscribe to SPOILER, please go to www.spoilerpodcast.co.uk This week, against Paul’s express wishes, the Spoiler team have accepted a listener request and are reading Kazuo Ishigur
Episode 2 What Lurks In The Heart Of Men by The Reading Room
Can we be loved by our outward appearances or can we be loved by who we are on the inside?
“There should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives”This week the Spoiler team are feeling inspired as we read R.J. Palacio’s children’s novel ‘Wonder’. Paul predicts that Andy, give
“If love be rough with you, be rough with love”Three reviewers, alike in temperament (if not always in opinion), sit down this week to talk some serious culture as the Spoiler team take a look at Baz Luhrmann’s Shakespeare adaptation ‘Romeo
“Very odd, what happens in a world without children's voices”This week we’re watching Alfonso Cuaron’s dystopian thriller ‘Children of Men’, based (very loosely) on the 1992 novel by PD James and starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael
“I don’t work for you. I work for the building”This week we’re watching Ben Wheatley’s film adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s supposedly "unfilmable" dystopian thriller ‘High-Rise’ and the team are at odds again, though not about Tom “so handsom
“Just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does”This week we’re reading Douglas Adams’ cult sci-fi comedy novel ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’. While Paul wonders if anyone anywhere dislikes this book, Rachae
"When I was small, I only knew small things"This week we're watching and reading "Room" by Emma Donoghue as we take a look at both the original 2010 book and the 2015 film adaptation starring Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay.The team approac
“Going outside is highly overrated” This week in our new show SPOILER, we're reading Ernest Kline's "nerdgasm" of a book, Ready Player One. As Rachael and Andy get in touch with their inner geek, Paul has been frittering away more of his
"She turned to him and pulled her lips into what he knew must be a smile"This week, in another chance to catch up with our new show SPOILER, we're reading John Williams' sleeper hit "Stoner" which, contrary to Paul's assumption, is not a "1
“While there was breath in my body, she would never lack sufficient AA batteries.”Another opportunity to try out our new podcast "Spoiler", and this week we're reading David Nicholls much anticipated novel "Us", the story of middle aged Bioc
Hello again! It's been a few years now since The Reading Room ended, but now we're back with a brand new show called SPO!LER, which reviews books, films and TV shows in their entirety - without fear of spoilers. We thought we'd give you loy
Hello again! Unbelieveably, it’s been almost 3 years since we last updated this page. In the meantime, we decided to take a bit of a break, then did a local radio project called Lincoln AtoZ. But now we’re back - or at least will be very soo
This month, The Reading Room Book Group reconvenes to review young adult sci-fi novel The Rise of Nine by Pittacus Lore. Paul Tyler and regular reviewer Gill Hart are joined by Georgia Twynham who, as author of The Thirteenth series, knows a
In another of our special extended monologues, this month The Reading Room presents The Barraclough Newsletters....Bunny Barraclough is a real pillar of her community - a leading member of the local amateur dramatics society and ladies lunc
On this programme we present a specially produced story by writer and performer Gareth Calway. A terrified grave robber comes across the severed mummified head of England's greatest revolutionary - Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell's head proceeds t
On this month's programme, the final Reading Room Book Group (for now at least) reviews The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce, we talk to documentary maker Nick Gray about his book Escape From Tibet which tells the real life s
If you missed The Reading Room LIVE, you can now watch the entire show on YouTube! And if you were there, why not relive a great night of spoken word and poetry, including our interview with Red Dwarf star Robert Llewellyn…
In the second part of our special LIVE show recorded at the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre we talk to Red Dwarf, Scrapheap Challenge and Carpool star Robert Llewellyn about his varied career and his writing. Robert talks about the return of R
In the first part of our live special recorded at the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, we have poetry from John Osborne and Andrew Goulding, Abigail Tarttelin reads us two exclusive excerpts from her next novel Golden Boy which has just been s
Well, it's all over now - after months of planning, The Reading Room LIVE featuring Robert Llewellyn took place on Saturday 12th May at the LPAC in Lincoln in front of a gratifyingly large crowd. If you weren't there, here's what you missed...
On this programme we talk to ex-Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine frontman Jim Bob about his new novel Driving Jarvis Ham, then The Reading Room Book Group give their verdict on the book. We also talk to John Mitchinson, co-founder of the r
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