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Wirral Community Shakespeare: Two Extra Performances of The Winter’s Tale
The FREE tickets for all of the original performances of Wirral Community Shakespeare's open-air production of The Winter's Tale in…
Richard and Judy Book Club: Mounting Pressure for Change
As you know, a couple of months ago we started a campaign to get a classic work of literature on the list for…
Featured Poem: ‘Piano’ by D. H. Lawrence
This poem was given to me to read last week by one of our Get Into Reading group members. K, who has also been…
Free Thought
As part of the BBC's Free Thinking festival, Director of The Reader Organisation, Jane Davis, appeared on Radio 3's breakfast show with…
Featured Poem: ‘Weathers’, by Thomas Hardy
The British summer has a lot going for it if you happen to be a meteorologist or a poet. Thomas…
Summer Break
The Reader Online is taking a break for a couple of weeks and as you can see we've left a…
Links We Liked for 5 August, 2008.
We're in holiday mode and it's only going to get worse over the next couple of weeks, so here are…
Richard and Judy Poll: We Have a Winner
Over the last month or so we've been conducting a poll to select the 'classic' novel that we would like…
Featured Poem: Wordes Unto Adam His Own Scriveyne
Writers often wish a plague of scabs (and worse) on their editors and Chaucer's poem about his copyist or scribe,…
The Reader Abroad Part 6: Deep Thought
In which Jane Davis, director of The Reader Organisation, works on an article for the magazine and exhausts herself by…
Japanese Diary: The Devil Makes Work
Kimberley Long is a former Reader volunteer currently teaching English in Japan. There are definitely some bonuses to having my…
Orwell Diaries Blog
From the 9th of August the Orwell Prize organisation will be blogging George Orwell's diaries, starting from 9th August, 1938.…