Episode 14 – Heritage and Literature 

In this episode, staff from The Reader take us on an audio tour of The Reader’s Liverpool home, Calderstones Mansion House in Calderstones Park. We learn a little about the history of the Mansion and the ancient monument that gives the house and park its name, and listen to literature that brings those spaces and their former inhabitants to life.  

This episode is the first of several about The Reader’s two-year heritage project, Making Meaning at Calderstones, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, during which we are uncovering and telling the stories of Calderstones as a significant place of meaning-making.  

Read more about Calderstones Mansion House 

An interactive map of Calderstones Park 

Making Meaning at Calderstones: The Reader’s Heritage project 

Time Traveller’s Shared Reading group 

The Silence Living in Houses by Esther Morgan 

Collected Poems: Anne Ridler 

‘A Muse in Livery’ by Robert Dodsley 

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot 

Photo of a Calder Stone 

The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown