Our Read, Our Train, Our Brilliant Day!
To launch Our Read, we took 25 young people from Get Into Reading from Liverpool to London in a private carriage of a Virgin Train with author Frank Cottrell Boyce(!). Instead of writing it up, I have made a montage of photos, news clips and newspaper articles, and a video diary (I'm no Danny Boyle, sorry):
We were also joined by a number of media folk and there's also some footage to see on:
- BBC North West (we're from 20 minutes in for two minutes);
- Granada Reports (14 minutes in - and I think, for one day only!);
- Guardian Books Podcast (25 minutes in)
- BBC Radio Merseyside Breakfast Show (2 hours 28 minutes in) and the Sean Styles Show (10 minutes in)
- Liverpool Echo video
- Wirral News
And here's some pics, (c) Liverpool Daily Post and Echo:
And here are some of ours (c) Charlotte Weber at TRO (and a few others!):
In the First Class Virgin Trains Lounge
The 'man who can' from Virgin Trains, Gary Iddon
Wirral Councillors Sheila Clarke and Don McCubbin
Our Read's First Class Carriage!
Frank and Jane at the Children's Library in Idea Store Whitechapel, London
That's just the start of it! More to follow over the weekend and next week...
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