SPOILER Review: The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (2015)
Another new episode from our sister programme SPOILER - to subscribe to SPOILER, please go to www.spoilerpodcast.co.uk This week, against Pa...
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The Reading Room is a monthly show dedicated to books and creative writing. Each month we present extended interviews with authors and original short stories.
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SPOILER Review: Wonder by R J Palacio
“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 ar...
SPOILER: Romeo & Juliet (Baz Luhrmann's 1996 film based on... well, you know what it's based on!)
“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...
SPOILER Review: Children of Men based on the book by PD James
“Very odd, what happens in a world without children's voices” This week we’re watching Alfonso Cuaron’s dystopian thriller ‘Children of Men’...
High-Rise (2015 film based on the novel by J G Ballard): SPOILER Episode 23
“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 "unfilm...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams: SPOILER Episode 22
“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 ‘Th...
Room by Emma Donoghue - SPOILER Podcast Episode 17
"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 orig...
Ready Player One by Ernest Kline: SPOILER Podcast Preview
“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....
Stoner by John Williams: SPOILER podcast preview
"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...
SPOILER Podcast: Us by David Nicholls
“While there was breath in my body, she would never lack sufficient AA batteries.” Another opportunity to try out our new podcast "Spoiler",...
SPO!LER Preview
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...
ROOM 31 - The Rise of Nine by Pittacus Lore, Georgia Twynham, Jim Bob, Andrew Goulding
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 reg...
ROOM 30: The Barraclough Newsletters by Jim Gotts
In another of our special extended monologues, this month The Reading Room presents The Barraclough Newsletters.... Bunny Barraclough is a r...
ROOM 29: Cromwell’s Talking Head by Gareth Calway – A Reading Room Special
On this programme we present a specially produced story by writer and performer Gareth Calway . A terrified grave robber comes across the se...
ROOM 28: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce, Escape From Tibet, Brendan Cleary
On this month's programme, the final Reading Room Book Group (for now at least) reviews The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyc...
ROOM 27 - The Reading Room LIVE Part 2: 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 Car...
ROOM 26 - The Reading Room LIVE Part 1: John Osborne, Abigail Tarttelin, Andrew Goulding...
In the first part of our live special recorded at the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre , we have poetry from John Osborne and Andrew Goulding,...
The Reading Room LIVE with Robert Llewellyn
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...
ROOM 25: Jim Bob, Driving Jarvis Ham, Unbound, John Osborne, Andrew Goulding
On this programme we talk to ex-Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine frontman Jim Bob about his new novel Driving Jarvis Ham , then The Readin...
ROOM TV: Driving Jarvis Ham by Jim Bob - ROOM 25 Preview
In this short video, Paul reminisces about the bands that defined his youth and wonders whether one of his musical heroes - Carter The Unsto...