From The Library With Love
Kate Thompson-Blog Tour with A Difference
By Kate Thompson
Podcasts
Kate Thompson, author of The little Wartime Library and upcoming Wartime Book Club.
Kate has collaborated with Anne Cater to organise a blog tour with a difference.
Instead of books, to be reviewed it is podcast episodes. Kate dislikes the word podcast. What does it actually mean? It's very sterile. I prefer instead to think of my episodes as 'talking stories'. It just another way of indulging our love of stories and helping to press pause on life!
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 Bethnal Green 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 Andre Carnegie, I set myself the challenge of interviewing 100 library workers. Speaking with one library worker for every year this library has been serving its community seemed a good way to mark this auspicious occasion. Because who better to explain the worth of a hundred-year-old library, than librarians themselves! I quickly realised that librarians have the best stories. My research led me to librarians with over fifty years of experience, to the impressive women who manage libraries in prisons and schools, to those remote Scottish islands. From poetry libraries overlooking the wide sweep of the Thames, to the 16th century Shakespeare's Library in Stratford, via the small but mighty Leadhills Miners' Library.
This podcast was born out of those eye-opening conversations, because as Denise from Tower Hamlets Library told me: 'If you want to see the world, don't join the Army, become a librarian!',
Ordinary people with extraordinary stories to share. Interviews up already:
📚100=year-old-Bletchley Park Codebreaker Betty Webb on keeping her wartime secrets
📚Bestselling author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Christy Lefteri on the importance of writing what you feel
📚New York Times bestselling author Madeline Martin on underground libraries and clandestine book club
📚October-Libraries week
📚'I was born in a concentration camp' A powerful interview with 78-year-old Eva Clarke,
📚December marks the 85th anniversary of Kindertransport scheme
📚National Letter Writing Day
Plus SO so many more.
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My Review:-I have listened to a few of Kate's podcast (episodes) and found them informative, educational and fun. Kate talks about what she loves, but instead of writing these down for us to read, she tells them to us herself, a long with guests so we can listen to then in the form of a episode (pod cast). I loved 'From the Library With Love' with Liz McGuire who has over 1600 letters. Liz says letters are a way of living through history with letters for the past. Kate and Liz talk about how important letters are and have been. Liz's oldest letter is from1876, it talks about farming, how they price things. She has letters from a family in 1920, along with photos. The family had travelled on the Whitestar and wrote letters about everything they did. Kate finds letters everywhere, at flee markets and online. Letter writing isn't something people do much now. I still write letters and have letters from when I was 16 when I moved from home, I would write home every week and my parents kept them. I found them when my parents died, they had them in a box in the bottom of the wardrobe, so I've added them to letters that I've received over the years.
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