On-Air Book Group

We’re like any book group, we start talking about one book then ramble on, but for this one you don’t even have to leave home !

On-Air Book Group

Each month we choose a book, then come together to discuss it. Plus there’s music and often a guest.

Presented by Helen Ottaway, Polly Ellis and Sheila Hedges  with  sound engineer Ed Timoshyshyn, the On-Air Book Group is broadcast on the third Thursday of the month at 2pm and repeated the following week.
With a wide range of different books, we have covered biographies, the arts, nature, murder; we have read re-writes of the classics, and new interpretations of old legends.
Our last few shows - all of which can be found on Mixcloud at

 https://www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/playlists/on-air-book-group/

  1. 19th December       Ideas on how to use those Christmas book voucher

         Books included - Samantha Harvey - Orbital; Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry; Nigel Slater - 1,000 Feasts;

102. 16th January             Orbital by Samantha Harvey with guest local author Tania Brassey

103. 20th February           The Glass Maker by Tracey Chevalier with local glassmaker Sonja Klingler

  1. 20th March                The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

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