Our Reading Circle has been running now for 10 years. We have also offered Freirad one-hour Reading Circle programmes for these last five years.

We now have a new schedule for the Reading Circle programme. The discussion of the monthly book still takes place on the first Tuesday in each month at 20.00 (followed by a repeat on the second Monday in each month at 11.06.) Each programme now lasts 29 minutes, rather than the 59 minutes before.

Why this change? You may well ask…

We feel that we can get across a book better in a zappier, shorter programme: more dynamic and focussed. This is also in line with how BBC Radio 4 covers  discussions of books. (We are keen listeners as to how they handle their programmes!)

In this first of the new series, Sandra and Andrew  (‘Sandrew’) Milne-Skinner discuss briefly each of the following  six books that have proved popular with our Reading Circle since the outset back in 2012!
1. ‘The Hare with Amber Eyes’, Edmund de Waal
2. ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’, Richard Flanagan
3. ‘All the Light We Cannot See’, Anthony Doerr
4. ‘The Only Story’, Julian Barnes
5. ‘On Chesil Beach’. Ian McEwan
6. ‘The Driver’s Seat’, Muriel Spark

We wish you enjoyable, stimulating…and even challenging listening!
‘Sandrew’ Milne-Skinner