The Booktown Blether Podcast
Conversations from Wigtown, Scotland’s National Booktown.
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Episodes
Thursday Aug 15, 2024
Thursday Aug 15, 2024
Back again for another blether, Jayne is joined by Kelly Love, frequent visitor to Wigtown and part of Vestavia Hills Arts Council in Alabama and Healing Arts Scotland to talk about the healing power of books. Lou also joins the discussion and Jayne's dog makes a guest appearance!
Saturday Aug 03, 2024
Saturday Aug 03, 2024
Welcome to Booktown Blether, Episode 15! Featuring Jayne, Ruth & Lou.
Wednesday Jul 24, 2024
Wednesday Jul 24, 2024
Lou from New Chapter Books and Dawn from Spinning a Yarn, talk about the great Agatha Christie...and Poirot's moustache.
Sunday Jul 07, 2024
Sunday Jul 07, 2024
Jayne talks to Kris Nichol about the Wigtown Women's Walk and to Lou at New Chapter Books about an Edwardian book that supplies templates for all your letter-writing-needs!
Monday May 13, 2024
Monday May 13, 2024
Once again Jayne's mic decided that she should sound very far away - sorry! Apart from that, you CAN hear Rosie Morton talking about the newly opened Wigtown Gallery as well as Ruth Anderson from Well-Read Books!
Thursday May 02, 2024
Thursday May 02, 2024
Welcome to The Booktown Blether, Episode 11.
In this episode Jayne talks to Wigtown Festival Programmer, Lee Randall.
Sunday Apr 21, 2024
Sunday Apr 21, 2024
This time Jayne interviews Shaun Bythell from The Bookshop. Ruth makes a return from her trip to Australia and Lou gives a wee update on thing happening in Wigtown.
Monday Mar 11, 2024
Monday Mar 11, 2024
Welcome to another Booktown Blether special!
This time, Jayne talks to Big DoG (Scotland's Children's Book Festival) executive producer Andy Stewart about the upcoming DoG festival in Dumfries as well as his involvement in the Wigtown Booktown Festival.
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Welcome to episode 8...or is it 9? Anyway, welcome!
This time Jayne and Lou talk petitions, penguins and more...
Friday Feb 23, 2024
Friday Feb 23, 2024
First an apology for Jayne's audio. Her mic decided that she should sound very far away and even with AI tinkering it's still not great.
Anyway! This episode, Jayne is joined by Anne Barclay (who sounds fine btw) from the Booktown Festival!