Free Thinking
Book at Breakfast
Each year, as part of BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking festival we host two ‘Book at Breakfast’ events.
In 2008 we were joined by award-winning writer Clare Allan (winner of the first Orange/Harpers Bazaar Short Story Competition and author of Poppy Shakespeare) on Saturday 1st November and Mark Haddon (author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother) on Sunday 2nd November, who read and discussed their work with audience members over coffee and croissants. Read a review of Book at Breakfast with Clare Allan on our blog.
Free Thought: The Real Value of Literature
As part of the BBC's Free Thinking Festival, Director of The Reader Organisation, Jane Davis appeared on Radio 3's breakfast show with her impassioned 'Free Thought' about the real value of literature.
Jane talks about how she founded The Reader Organisation, with the aim of "Bringing books to life, off the syllabus, down from the shelves and into the hands of people who need them. We all need the added brain power and meditative reflection that reading can bring." It's very short and very strong. Listen here.
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