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Spot The Reader!
About eighteen months ago, I received a call from a production assistant of a film asking if I could send…
Featured Poem: The Wind Blew Words by Thomas Hardy
On a recent trip to the cinema I went to see Letters To Juliet, the latest in a line of…
Liverpool Premier of A Boy Called Dad
PLAZA CINEMA AND CLAPPERBOARD UK PRESENT... THE LIVERPOOL PREMIERE OF A BOY CALLED DAD Starring Liverpool actor Ian Hart Friday…
Reading in Practice MA
I have always felt that reading is a powerful thing, but the course has helped me think about why that…
Henley’s ‘Invictus’ stars with Morgan Freeman
There can't be many films which would appeal to poetry lovers and rugby fans but that is what Clint Eastwood…
Foundations of Bibliotherapy: Research Project
Grace Farrington is a project researcher at The Reader Organisation, she writes: Poetry, "a kind of medicine divinely bestowed upon…
Frank Cottrell Boyce – 24 Hour Party People
CLAPPERBOARD PRESENTS… Frank Cottrell Boyce - 24 Hour Party People Tuesday 1st December, 7pm at Picturehouse@FACT Clapperboard Presents... Local award…
Letters to the Editor
Not a letter to the Editor of The Reader, but a letter from the Editor of The Reader to the…
Featured Poem: Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art by John Keats
The relationship between literature and film can be much like that of passionate but warring lovers – the two will…
The UK’s first literary adaptation film festival arrives in Manchester
VERSION FESTIVAL arrives! 13-14 November, Various Venues, Manchester. Tickets are now on sale for the UK's first adaptation-only film festival.…
Clapperboard Presents… Rita Tushingham and A Taste of Honey
Friend of TRO, Colin Farrell from Clapperboard UK, invites you to a very special screening tonight (20th October) at 7pm:…
Film of Frank Cottrell Boyce’s Accelerate
From Frank Cottrell Boyce's short story 'Accelerate', which was published in The Reader 31, film-makers Carl Hunter & Clare Heney…
