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From the Library With Love — 58 episodes
‘I escaped the Nazis then fixed Lancaster Bombers for the RAF.'
Jean Fullerton, policewoman and district nurse turned novelist on why there is no such thing as an ordinary life.
Author Louisa Treger investigates the audacious woman who tricked her way into a brutal insane asylum to expose the truth
British booksellers in the Blitz
What it's like to be a prison librarian? Neil Barclay invites us into HMP Thameside library in London.
The mysterious photo that inspired a tale of secrets, loss and betrayal in wartime Cornwall.
Shattered cities. Donna Jones Alward on uncovering the WW1 explosion which devastated Nova Scotia
"I wrote 100 letters to my friend with cancer. It transformed our lives."
What happened after the Nazis left? New York Times bestselling author Jenny Le Coat on why liberation didn't equal freedom for Jersey islanders after WW2.
Meet the formidable, feisty, factory sisterhood who went on strike and made history.
“‘Forget that number and you don’t exist,’ the Kapo at Auschwitz told me.” 92-year-old Ivor Perl on surviving the horrors of the Holocaust.
Meet the fur coat gangsters: Notorious Victorian girl gang who hid stolen jewellery in knickerbockers, carried razors wrapped in lace handkerchiefs and used a hatpin to blind anyone who crossed them
On the 80th anniversary of D-Day, veteran Mervyn Kersh shares his extraordinary experience of the Normandy landings and his role in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe: Reader, Bibliophile and Library Lover
The Women Who Ruled the East End: Remarkable Tales of Wartime London
85 years on from the end of the Spanish Civil War, author Maggie Brookes uncovers its hidden heroes. Plus the extraordinary war story she found in a lift!
99-year-old Holocaust survivor and US Army veteran George Leitmann on the emotional search for his father, the day he discovered a concentration camp and how he kept his cool interrogating Nazi war criminals.
Sent away by sea: the forgotten history of WWII’s ‘seaevacuees'. Meet the heroine at the heart of an astonishing survival story.
Meet the Sugar Girls of Love Lane. New social history book set in Tate & Lyle's Liverpool factory in the sixties offers a glimpse of a long vanished era.
Meet the wartime librarians of Occupied Paris. Bestselling author of The Paris Library, Janet Skeslien Charles, on how reading gives us a privacy of the mind
112 years ago today, RMS Titanic struck an iceberg. Historian Claes-Göran Wetterholm reveals some heartbreaking, untold personal stories…
Meet the French librarian who trained as a Board Game Librarian and revolutionised her library in lockdown!
Meet the librarians who rescued the books the Nazis burnt and plundered
Rounding up randy runaway sheep and delivering twin lambs whilst making gravy. Welcome to the multitasking world of the Devon Shepherdess.
Travel back to Victorian Brighton and discover a shadowy world of erotic tableaux, gangsters and music-hall artistes in Jacquie Bloese's atmospheric new novel
Channel Islands under Occupation. From the library to the post office, Jersey is an island simmering with stories and secrets
Famine. Revolution. Rebellion. A history of Paris, seen through the windows of a tiny Montmartre bakery
School librarian by day, novelist by night. Meet the author who threw herself from an aeroplane in the name of research.
The French resistance heroine who stole my heart. An exclusive glimpse into the research and writing of best-selling historical fiction author Natasha Lester.
'I married the soldier who helped liberate me from Bergen-Belsen' On Holocaust Memorial Day, survivor Renee Salt shares her astonishing story.
Spies, espionage and secrets in an antiquarian bookshop. Author Louise Fein shares the true story behind her propulsive new novel, The London Bookshop Affair,
What happened to the children stolen by the Nazis? USA Today bestselling author Andie Newton shares a heartbreaking wartime story.
Britain's best-loved saga writer Nancy Revell on how Gone with the Wind changed her life and the secrets to writing books that readers take to their hearts.
Come inside one of London’s dreamiest churches, the famous St Bride's on Fleet Street and hear how a Blitz raid revealed a secret charnel house and the ruins of Roman pavement, plus it’s surprising link to Jack the Ripper.
Could you be living over a plague pit? Meet the cemetery and death historian who uncovered a plague pit under Argos. Sam Perrin hunts out London's forgotten graves and shares what the dead can teach us.
On National Letter Writing Day, meet the woman who collects forgotten letters. " In attics, drawers and shoe boxes under beds there are hundreds of stories waiting to be told."
'I sat on the train & wondered if i’d ever see my family again!’ On the 85th anniversary of the Kindertransport scheme, which saved 10,000 children from the Nazis, 97-year-old Gabriele Keenaghan shares her astonishing story
Meet the Guinea Pig Club. The astonishing story of the Allied Airmen who formed WW2’s most unique club. A tale of unsung heroines, pioneering surgery and sex in the linen cupboard!
Who was the real Ronnie Biggs? Sixty years on from the Great Train Robbery, his biographer and friend gives us a glimpse into his colourful and audacious life.
Confessions of a ghost-writer. Meet the bestselling writer you've never heard of as she reveals publishing's best-kept secret.
A deathbed plea from my mother – ‘I don’t want to be forgotten’.
Vanishing Voices of Wartime London. Meet the proud cockneys who survived being blown up, machine-gunned and being buried alive!
I was born in a Nazi concentration camp
Discover the hidden history of an underground village in East London. Join Siddy Holloway, presenter of Secrets of the Underground and wartime Blitz survivor Ray as we celebrate a unique wartime community.
Libraries Week - Saturday. The surprising history of libraries in wartime. Bodice-rippers in the blackout, steamy shelter novels and how wartime women changed the way we read today.
Libraries Week - Friday. Meet the librarian documenting the weird and wonderful things she finds left behind in library books! "Each item is an anonymous glimpse into someone’s life"
Libraries Week - Thursday. It's National Poetry Day. Karen Smith of the National Poetry Library opens the doors to her magical library
Libraries Week - Wednesday. Powerful. Seditious. Pioneering. Meet the librarian breaking the rules.
Libraries Week - Tuesday. What's it like to be a librarian in the Outer Hebrides?
Libraries Week - Monday. Meet the husband and wife librarian team smashing the sssh stereotype.
How to write under three pen names, by author Becca Mascull
Underground libraries and clandestine book clubs! New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London, Madeline Martin, gets up close to history and tells us why she keeps a magnifying glass in her desk drawer.
Author of The Midwife of Auschwitz, Anna Stuart on uncovering the torment of the Abba star with the Nazi father and the courageous midwife who delivered 3000 babies in Auschwitz.
Author Gill Paul uncovers a ruthless rivalry, scandal and the great clash of the beauty titans!
100-year-old Bletchley Park Codebreaker, Charlotte 'Betty' Webb on keeping her wartime secrets
Tattooist of Auschwitz author Heather Morris on how she unlocked a decades old secret
Bestselling author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Christy Lefteri on learning to write what she feels, the power of storytelling and how happiness is found in a Greek deli on the Piccadilly Line.
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