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March 2026: Growing
Marjorie and Claire discuss 'Phone calls from my mother' by Anna Martin and 'Two Trees' by Don Paterson. Photo by Lawrence Aritao on Unsplash. This podcast is supported by Creative Scotland
February 2026: Caring
Jess and Marjorie discuss 'Closet' by Nick Fogg and 'The Word' by Zaffar Kunial. Content warning: this episode contains discussions concerning grief and self harm. Photo by Lina Trochez on…
January 2026: Rediscovery
Claire and Marjorie discuss 'Resonance' by Anna Levin and 'The Acceptance' by Raymond Antrobus. This podcast is supported by Creative Scotland. Photo by Philip Myrtorp on Unsplash.
December 2025: Measuring Time
On this episode Jess and Marjorie discuss 'Measuring Time' by LG Thomson and 'Bed' by Jackie Kay. This podcast is supported by Creative Scotland. Photo by Jennie Clavel on Unsplash.
November 2025: Comfort
Jess Orr and Marjorie Lotfi discuss 'Soft Things on Hard Days' by Micaela J. Ralph and 'My Wife's Whistle' by Jim Carruth. Photo by lilartsy on Unsplash. This podcast is supported by Creative…
October 2025: Last Time
Jess Orr joins Marjorie Lotfi on this month's episode where we read the story "One Last Time" by Melissa Ganendran and the poem 'Flame Heart' by Claude McKay. Photo by Brigitte Elsner on Unsplash.…
September 2025: Obsolete
We read ‘A Trip Doon the Memories’ by Roddie McKenzie and ‘Text Message’ by Anthony Anaxagorou Photo by Yueshan Jiang on Unsplash. This podcast is supported by Creative Scotland.
August 2025: Envy
We read ‘Television’ by Lynn Gee and ‘Sue Speaks To Me In The Swan Room’ by Malika Booker. Photo by Negar Nikkhah on Unsplash. This podcast was supported by Creative Scotland.
July 2025: White Lies
We read ‘It’s a sin to tell a lie’ by Helen Bang and ‘The Charming Nancy’ by Miriam Gamble from ‘Squirrels are Dead’. Photo by Jan Canty on Unsplash. This podcast was supported by Creative Scotland.
June 2025: The Road Less Travelled
We read ‘There’s no after school club for the moons of Jupiter’ by Britta Benson and the poems ‘The Train’ and ‘Traivel’ by Colin Bramwell, from his collection 'Foeer Pessoa'. Photo by Manny Moreno…
May 2025: Constellations
On this month's podcast we discuss ‘Bright Star’ by Tom Murray and ‘Return’ by Cáit O’Neill McCullagh. Photo by Nicole Avagliano on Unsplash. This podcast was supported by Creative Scotland.
April 2025: Friendship
We read 'Dressing my Daughter' by Juliet Wilson and 'Long Years apart—can make no' by Emily Dickinson. Photo by Pawel Czerwinski on Unsplash. This podcast was supported by Creative Scotland.
March 2025: Bark
We read 'Its bark', a non-fiction piece by Tessa McWatt, and 'Living Space / One Breath', a poem by Imtiaz Dharker. Photo by Nate Bell on Unsplash
February 2025: Biscuits
We read 'A Life in 5 Biscuits', a story by LG Thomson, and 'the day i stopped nicking tea bags from hotels (or granny, forgive me)', a poem by Hollie McNish. Photo by Alexander Grey on Unsplash.
January 2025: Interview
We discuss the short story "Bacon Butty" by Kevin Crowe and "The Job Interview", a poem by Ross McCleary. Photo by The Jopwell Collection on Unsplash
December 2024: Magic
We read the short story "Walking on Air" by Maureen Myant and a poem from Alice Tarbuck, "Impetrative and Oblative". Photo by jasper benning on Unsplash
November 2024: Apprentice
We read "Building Badger’s Cairn", a short story from Dorothy Lawrenson, and the poem "Wit is it" by Billy Letford. Photo by Juhani Pelli from Unsplash
October 2024: Sewing
We discuss the story 'Straight First Time: Sewing Lessons" by Jay Whittaker and the poem 'Instruction' by Hazel Hall. Photo by pina messina on Unsplash
September 2024: Our Earth
This month, Claire and Marjorie discuss Open Book's latest theme, Our Earth. Reading Katharine Macfarlane's short piece 'Tethered to the Earth' and a poem by A J Stockwell, they explore resilience,…
August 2024: Inheritance
This month, Claire and Marjorie delve into Open Book's latest theme of Inheritance. Reading Helen Lyttle's 'Arthur's Gift' and A E Housman's 'Soldier from the wars returning', they look back at…
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