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The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale - Podcast

The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale

 Nigel Beale

THE BIBLIO FILE is a podcast about "the book," and an inquiry into the wider world of book culture. Hosted by Nigel Beale it features wide ranging, long-form conversations with authors, poets, book publishers, booksellers, book editors, book collectors, book makers, book scholars, book critics, book designers, book publicists, literary agents and many others inside the book trade and out - from writer to reader.

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Update frequency
every 7 days
Average duration
45 minutes
Episodes
598
Years Active
2006 - 2025
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Richard Ovenden on the fragility and importance of Libraries

Richard Ovenden on the fragility and importance of Libraries

Richard Ovenden ​has been ​Bodley’s Librarian (the senior executive position of the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford) since 2014. ​He is a ​ Fellow​ at the​ Society of Antiquaries and Royal S…
00:52:53  |   Thu 25 Feb 2021
Dan Mozersky on how to build a successful chain of bookstores

Dan Mozersky on how to build a successful chain of bookstores

Dan Mozersky enjoyed a long and fruitful career in the retail book industry. As a founding member of Indigo Books & Music's executive team he was instrumental in turning the company's vision into rea…

01:19:14  |   Sat 20 Feb 2021
Mary Newberry on the Joys of Indexing. Yes, Indexing.

Mary Newberry on the Joys of Indexing. Yes, Indexing.

Mary Newberry is a Toronto-based freelance editor, indexer, and teacher. Her early passion was dancing. The self-discipline she learned from it is today one of her greatest assets. She works mostly …
01:00:37  |   Sat 13 Feb 2021
Jonathan A. Hill on the importance of bookseller catalogues

Jonathan A. Hill on the importance of bookseller catalogues

The son of prominent book collector Kenneth E. Hill, Jonathan A. Hill grew up in a house filled with old books.  After graduating from university in 1974 he served a classic apprenticeship, working f…

00:46:19  |   Wed 27 Jan 2021
Book Collector Miriam Borden on rescuing the Yiddish language

Book Collector Miriam Borden on rescuing the Yiddish language

Miriam Borden, a teacher of Yiddish and PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto, is winner of the 2020 Honey and Wax Book Collecting Prize for “Building a Nation of Little Readers: Twentieth-Centu…
00:51:13  |   Sun 24 Jan 2021
Martin Latham on The Bookseller's Tale

Martin Latham on The Bookseller's Tale

Martin Latham has been a bookseller for thirty-five years. He has a PhD in Indian history, and taught at Hertfordshire University before turning to bookselling. He is proud to be responsible for the …

01:07:40  |   Sun 17 Jan 2021
Doug Minett on Canada's most Innovative Bookstore

Doug Minett on Canada's most Innovative Bookstore

The Bookshelf bookshop in Guelph, Ontario was established in 1973 by Barb and Doug Minett. In 1980 it became The Bookshelf Cafe - Canada's first bookstore cafe/restaurant. Shortly thereafter an ambit…

01:14:46  |   Wed 13 Jan 2021
Bianca Gillam on the role of a Special Sales Assistant at Simon & Schuster

Bianca Gillam on the role of a Special Sales Assistant at Simon & Schuster

It was on Twitter a couple of months ago that I noticed this tweet celebrating the work of one Bianca Gillam (@BinxGillam). 'You're the best special sales assistant ever', it said, or words to that e…

00:56:41  |   Mon 04 Jan 2021
David Gilmour on Truman Capote's slow descent into Hell

David Gilmour on Truman Capote's slow descent into Hell

Last year at about this time David Gilmour and I sat down together to talk about "Mojave" one of Truman Capote's greatest short stories. We enjoyed ourselves so much we decided to do it again, this …

01:00:12  |   Fri 25 Dec 2020
Lennie Goodings on Virago & her new memoir A Bite of the Apple

Lennie Goodings on Virago & her new memoir A Bite of the Apple

Virago is a London-based British publishing company committed to publishing women's writing and books on "feminist" topics.  Established by women in the 1970s in tandem with the Women's Liberation Mo…
00:59:18  |   Mon 21 Dec 2020
Martin Amis on his new novel Inside Story

Martin Amis on his new novel Inside Story

Martin Amis was born in Oxford in 1949 and is a British novelist, essayist, and memoirist - all of whom show up to contribute to his latest novel, Inside Story.    As it happens I read  Lolita in tan…
00:48:41  |   Sun 13 Dec 2020
Martin Parr on Collecting Photography Books

Martin Parr on Collecting Photography Books

"Martin Parr's celebrated photographs bridge the divide between art and documentary photography. His studies of the idiosyncrasies of mass culture and consumerism around the world, his innovative ima…

00:55:55  |   Mon 30 Nov 2020
Lawrence Krauss on science writing, and whether or not science is art

Lawrence Krauss on science writing, and whether or not science is art

...in which I posit that raising funds is a primary motivator explaining why scientists write, and Lawrence disagrees; and the two of us argue over the similarities and differences between art and sc…

00:37:59  |   Sun 22 Nov 2020
Patrick McGahern on 51 Years of Antiquarian Bookselling

Patrick McGahern on 51 Years of Antiquarian Bookselling

Patrick McGahern has been operating an antiquarian bookshop in Ottawa, Canada's capital, since 1969. Today it continues to thrive under the management of Patrick's son Liam. The store specializes in …

01:08:40  |   Sun 15 Nov 2020
Roger Chartier on the Study of Book History and its Giants

Roger Chartier on the Study of Book History and its Giants

Roger Chartier​ was born​ in 1945 in Lyon, ​France. He is a giant in the field of ​book​ history ​and the study of ​publishing and reading.​ He teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Soci…

01:22:53  |   Wed 11 Nov 2020
Toby Faber tells the Untold Story of Faber & Faber

Toby Faber tells the Untold Story of Faber & Faber

Toby Faber grew up with Faber & Faber - its books and stories have played an important role in his life. He was the company's managing director for four years and remains a non-executive director and…
01:05:49  |   Thu 05 Nov 2020
Emily Powell on dumping Amazon, and the success of her storied Bookstore

Emily Powell on dumping Amazon, and the success of her storied Bookstore

Powell's Books is a chain of bookstores located in and around Portland, Oregon. It claims to be the largest independent new and used bookstore in the world. Powell's 'City of Books' store is located …

00:55:57  |   Mon 26 Oct 2020
Tiphaine Guillermou on 20th Century French Book Design

Tiphaine Guillermou on 20th Century French Book Design

Tiphaine Guillermou is an editor with Graphéine, a design agency with offices in Paris and Lyon. 

While researching 20th century French book design - so that I'd have some books to hunt down while vi…

00:57:35  |   Tue 20 Oct 2020
Andy Hunter on Bookshop.org and how to stick it to Amazon

Andy Hunter on Bookshop.org and how to stick it to Amazon

Andy Hunter is the founder and CEO of Bookshop.org  He's also the publisher at Catapult, at Counterpoint and at Softskull, and, as if this isn't enough, publisher and co-creator at LitHub, and co-fou…
00:53:08  |   Sun 11 Oct 2020
Benoit Forgeot, one of Paris's Top Rare Book Dealers

Benoit Forgeot, one of Paris's Top Rare Book Dealers

Benoit Forgeot is one of France's leading antiquarian book dealers. We met in his office, in the Odeon district of Paris to talk about what differentiates French collectors from American; French book…

01:00:02  |   Mon 05 Oct 2020
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