Did you know that Bristol Libraries have a podcast? 🎧

Every episode has a transcript. Here's the transcript for this trailer:

Presenter: Shelf Life is a new podcast from Bristol Libraries. And this is a podcast about libraries, books, and people.

Clip: “Bernadine Evaristo’s Man Booker winner, yeah just a really interesting book”

Clip: “Can I just say how brave you are to be reading 1984 in the middle of a pandemic! Haha!”

Presenter: And we speak with people working in and outside our libraries, authors and organisations locally and nationally, and members of community groups, who share our love of books, reading, and libraries.

Clip: “They love books and reading, but they also love people and understand local communities. So I think they’re absolute pioneers, on the rock face of reader development, and I take my hat off to them”

Presenter: LC from WECIL, the West of England Centre for Independent Living...

Clip: “Books can be such a powerful way to share disabled people's stories and for people to find out that they're not alone”

Presenter: Pravanya and Naz from local youth employability organisation Babassa

Clip: “Yes, I think we have to revolutionise libraries a little bit”

Presenter: Local historian, writer, curator and performer Dr Edson Burton

Clip - question: “Do you want to talk about Colston coming down?”

Presenter: And people who have been working in NHS and domestic abuse support roles

Clip: “It felt more like a war in that language, but it’s not a war, it’s helping people through a really really difficult time’

Presenter: So if you’re interested in books or in people, lend us your ears, and subscribe now to Shelf Life from Bristol Libraries