The Readers
By The Readers
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Podcast Description
The Readers is going to be filled with news from around the book world, bookish debates and discussions, interviews with authors, bloggers and people in publishing. This aims to be a new ‘chat show for books’ covering all genres with the feel of popping to a couple of friends houses, sitting before their bookshelves with a nice cup of tea and nattering about books for an hour or so.
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The Readers Summer Book Club; The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan | It is finally here, the thing that Gavin and Simon have been so excited about, The Readers Summer Book Club starts today. Our first book is ‘The Last Werewolf’ by Glen Duncan. If you haven’t read the book then do not despair as in the first two part | 5/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers Episode 34; Out of Print Books & Things We Think We Don’t Like in Books | This week, in the last show before The Readers Summer Book Club starts next week, Gavin and Simon have an hour jam packed with bookish banter as they discuss; out of print books, books with subjects they think they don’t like and also a final ‘what th | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers Episode 33; Entrenched in Books, Sam Mills and The Quiddity of Will Self | In the second to last show before ‘The Readers Summer Book Club 2012’ starts we have a fabulously filled show for you. Gavin and Simon discuss becoming entrenched in authors or genre, Sam Mills, author of ‘The Quiddity of Will Self’ joins us for a | 5/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 32; Meeting People Through Books and Authors We Should Have Read | This week Simon and Gavin have a bit of a catch-up before launching into how you can meet people through books before talking authors we feel should have read. - Show notes are a little short as Gavin is doing them and lacks Simon’s flare! - | 5/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers Episode 31; Catching Up, Books You Hate But Have to Finish & Audiobooks | This week on The Readers Gavin and Simon fill you in on some bookish ventures, they discuss books you don’t like but simply have to finish, the pros and cons of audiobooks and its back... what they have read, are reading and want to read next. | 4/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 30; World Book Night and Essentials on the Shelves | This week Simon and Gavin celebrate World Book Night with a bit of a special episode. Simon is out sharing Rebecca and Gavin if he'd been prepared would have been giving The Time Traveller's Wife. They are joined by Victoria from Eve's Alexandria who s.. | 4/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers Episode 29; The Readers Summer Book Club More Details, Bookish News & Guilty Pleasures | This weeks episode is possibly the most bonkers in The Readers history as Gavin is poorly and Simon is hyper on life and a bit speedy and rambling. We have the Summer Book Club dates, bookish news such as no Pulitzer Prize for fiction and David Eggers ... | 4/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers Episode 28; The Readers Summer Book Club Titles & Should We Only Read Amazing Books? | It’s the big reveal this week of the eight titles for The Readers Summer Book Club which Gavin and Simon are really excited about, and we mean REALLY excited about. Gavin and Simon also debate the question ‘should we only read amazing books?’ | 4/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers Episode 27; We’re Six Months Old, Authors Tantrums & Prize Listings and Three Books From The Last Six Months You | Get ready for a giggly episode of The Readers this week as they celebrate being six months old. They discuss how the show has changed and is changing their reading. They discuss authors behaving badly and prize listings. | 4/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers Episode 26; Three Generations of Readers | This week on The Readers we don’t have Gavin but we do have something rather special to make up for it. How often do we get to hear from three generations of readers and hear how the love of a book is passed through the family? Not very do we? | 3/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers Episode 25; Age Appropriate Books and Books That Make You Feel Grubby | This week on The Readers Gavin and (a slightly addled post surgery) Simon discuss books and the age you read them, we have listener Dom Agius’ top five books and Gavin and Simon discuss the books that make you feel ‘grubby’. | 3/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers Episode 24; Independent Foreign Fiction & Orange Prize Longlists2012 & When Does Hype Get Too Much? | This week on The Readers it’s just Simon and Gavin and they have a lot to discuss. First up are the announcements of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and Orange Prize Longlists and the books that appear on them. | 3/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers Episode 23; Justin Torres & Giving Up On Books | This week on The Readers we have a visit from another wonderful author in the form of Justin Torres who joins Gavin and Simon to discuss his debut novel ‘We The Animals’. Gavin and Simon start the show with a discussion on when you should give up on a | 3/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers Episode 22; Eowyn Ivey, Ali Shaw & Fairytales | This week on The Readers we have a ‘fairytale’ special. We are joined by Eowyn Ivey to discuss her novel ‘The Snow Child’ and Ali Shaw; author of ‘The Girl With Glass Feet’ and ‘The Man Who Rained’ joins us to discuss the fairytale genre, | 2/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers Episode 21; Bored of Books, Famous Authors and Stephanie Beacham | We’re 21!!! In our 21st episode (which is a bit of a mish mash of all sorts) we bring you a discussion on famous authors and celebrities becoming authors, before Simon catches up with TV and film icon Stephanie Beacham. | 2/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers Episode 20; Childrens Books & YA Novels | This week Simon and Gav get down with the kids, well with kids books, and we have two little helpers who join in for small scene stealing roles. First up they discuss an article on ‘all children under eleven should read Dickens’ should they really? | 2/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers Episode 19; Essie Fox and Victorian Literature | In this weeks episode of The Readers we head back to the Victorian era and the dark gas lit times of mystery as we talk ‘The Somnambulist’ with it’s author Essie Fox who stays to join us for a discussion on Victorian Literature of its time and the m | 2/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers Episode 18; All About Us, Getting To Know The Readers Better… | As we suddenly realised we have never formerly introduced ourselves we thought that eighteen shows in it was about time we did. So here it is the ‘about us’ episode, from how we met to if we like cats and dogs, | 1/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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World Book Night, A Reminder… | A quick podcast from us between episodes as we want to remind you all about World Book Night and the fact that you only have until the 1st of February 2012 to sign up (thanks to Books on the Nightstand for mentioning it in their latest episode). | 1/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers Episode 17; Waterstones 11, Where To Start With An Author, An Interview with Colin Bateman and Multi-Reading | This week on The Readers we discuss the newly announced Waterstones 11 for 2012, look at where you should start with a new author with a big back catalogue, catch up with Colin Bateman and discuss Simon’s new trick of multi-reading. | 1/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers Episode 16; Readers Updates, Books/Authors and Social Networking and Jane Harris Interview | It's an episode of changes and tweaks this week as we tell you how two of our projects (The International Readers Awards and The Readers Summer Book Club) have developed and how we will be changing the format of the podcast a little over the future wee... | 1/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers Episode 15; Official Bestsellers of 2011, Reading Challenges and Richard and Judy vs. The TV Book Club | Don’t forget you can find us on Twitter, Good Reads and Facebook now as well as subscribing to us on iTunes here. - We have a jam packed bookish sandwich of an episode of The Readers this week with a little more of a UK twist than usual as we dis | 1/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers – Episode 14; Reading Resolutions & Books for 2012 | For the first episode of The Readers in 2012 (Happy New Year one and all) Gavin and Simon are looking at ‘Reading Resolutions’ and which books they are the most excited about coming in the first half of the new year. | 1/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers – Episode 13; Boxing Day Books & Our Books of 2011 | Firstly we hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and got all the presents books that you hoped for. In the festive mood, and possibly after too many glasses of sherry, on episode thirteen of the Readers Simon and Gavin talk festive books and their be... | 12/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers Episode 12; Part Two – White Heat, Frozen Planets and Christmas Books with MJ McGrath | Today we have the second in your two parter podcast this week. On today’s episode Gavin and Simon talk further about crime in a cold climate with a special guest MJ McGrath (who kindly joins us for the whole show) who’s debut novel ‘White Heat’ ca | 12/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers Episode 12; Part One – Crime in a Cold Climate and Yrsa Sigurdardottir | This week you are getting a two parter podcast. On today's episode Gavin and Simon talk crime in a cold climate. In today's half it's all about Nordic crime and includes an interview with Yrsa Sigurdardottir. | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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International Readers Books Awards – Update… | We bring you an update... As the website has been having problems (sorry) we have decided to extend the deadline for your voting forms for your best books of the year in the International Readers Book Awards 2011 until the 20th of December, | 12/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers – Episode 11; Funny Books, Catherine Hall, Green Carnations & LGBT Writing | For episode eleven Gavin and Simon discuss funny books, author Emma Jane Unsworth gives us her top recommended reads if you want a laugh and are joined for the second half of the show by Catherine Hall to talk about her recent winning of The Green Carn... | 12/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers – Episode 10; Margaret Atwood, Literary vs Sci-Fi, The International Readers Book Awards 2011 | Due to hosting problems this episode has needed to be reposted. Sorry for any inconvenience. It's episode ten but will Gavin and Simon be Speaking by end of it? They discuss Margaret Atwood's new book 'In Other Worlds' which leads to the, | 12/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers – Episode Nine; Books, Blogging & Culling | It’s a very bookish and blogging episode as we are joined by Kim of Reading Matters (who actually introduced Gavin and Simon to each other) for a very book based banter filled show. From book blogs and adding lots of titles onto your TBR’s to having t | 11/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers – Episode Eight; Reading Challenges & More | In our 8th episode we discuss ‘No Time for Novels’, reading challenges, the wonderful Ann and Michael from Books on the Nightstand join us (sort of) and we tell you what we have been reaidng, are reading and really want to read. - | 11/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers – Episode Seven; A Sherlock Special | Get the RSS link for the podcast by clicking here. You can subscribe to our weekly podcast on iTunes here. - Welcome to The Readers 'Sherlock Special' where in our seventh episode we discuss all things Holmesian (is that a word? | 11/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers – Episode Six | We have an additional extended ‘Manchester Literature Festival Special’ episode of The Readers which we are sneaking in for you this week. Simon has spent a lot of the last few weeks whizzing round the festival to report back on events starring (and w | 11/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers – Episode Five | Episode five is a little different and not just because of the theme tune, we have no author interviews because you will be getting author overload in a mid/late-week special but we do have lots of nattering about more book awards and what Gav and Simo... | 11/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers – Episode Four | Welcome to the fourth episode of The Readers and a spooky special as we go live on Halloween. In this episode we discuss the same scary book, our first mutual read, Gav interviews Paul Magrs, we discuss supernatural vs. scary, | 10/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers – Episode Three | We are so sorry that this has come out so late; we sailed through the ‘difficult second episode’ and came a cropper with the third episode. Not because we had nothing to say, but in fact because we simply went off on too many tangents and ended up wit | 10/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers – Episode Two | ...And we are back! We’ve made it through the ‘difficult’ second episode which actually seemed much easier, Gavin sounds a little less god like and we have much more of a natter, including rather a rant from Simon on Readability. - | 10/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Readers – Episode One | Firstly ‘hello world’, after a few weeks of planning, plotting and secrecy ‘The Readers’ are here and we can reveal we are Gavin Pugh, of Gav Reads, and Simon Savidge, of Savidge Reads. We are both very excited, and very nervous, | 10/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 38 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Booklovers delight
I'm so excited that Simon and Gavin have launched THE READERS, as I do believe the world needs many more people talking about books! Simon and Gavin are funny and engaging; after listening to the first episode I wanted to invite them over for dinner. They are smart, knowledgable and enthusiastic, and as someone immersed in the world of US publishing, I love hearing about books from a UK perspective. For a new podcast, the sound quality is good. In my experience, it usually takes 10-20 episodes for a podcast to get its sound issues worked out, and THE READERS is well on its way ahead of schedule. Keep up the good work, Simon and Gavin!
Excellent podcast!
Finally, two hosts who get to the heart of the matter...Books! Really enjoyed listening to to their discussion about books without annoying music or small talk that other podcasts assume is interesting or witty...They're wrong. Very informative, and having a lovely accent doesn't hurt. I look forward to hearing more episodes.
Wonderful podcast!
I heard about this podcast from Books on the Nightstand. I am so glad I did. Simon and Gavin are so engaging. If you like books--subscribe!
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