The Book Collector Podcast

Appearing in our Spring 2018 issue, the obituary of Iona Opie pays tribute to a world-famous authority on children's literature, folklore and notions of play. It is read by Virginia Ferguson.

Actor and Book man, Neil Pearson narrates a new Podcast series for The Book Collector, featuring articles written by legendary bookdealer John Saumarez Smith.

This first episode, A Knockout Novel by a Compulsive Idler, comes from The Book Collector's Spring 2010 issue and takes a look at the operation of the infamous ring system used at country book auctions via a 1957 novel called Knock or Ring.

A Personal Chapter was written by Percy H Muir for The Book Handbook in 1951.

It is read by James Fleming, editor of The Book Collector.

Our Podcast this week is an unusual one for The Book Collector, in that it is a piece of fiction. Written by Alan Noel Latimer Mumby for our Spring Issue in 1958, The Comte De Marnay is a short story about a passionate book collector and the lengths to which he goes to protect his treasures. It is an immersive tale, told by the former Librarian of Kings College, Cambridge, and delightfully read by Virginia Ferguson.

This is Part 2 of the memoir of Emil Offenbacher, printed in The Book Collector's Summer Issue for 2022 with the kind permission of Emil's children, Florence Offenbacher Keller and Claude Offenbacher. It is read by James Fleming.

This memoir is an account of a young Jewish-German bookseller and his family in their bid to escape Europe in the midst of the Second World War.

The Memoir of Emil Offenbacher, a German Jewish bookseller working in France in the 1930s, recounting his experiences during World War Two.

The memoir was first published in the Spring 2022 Issue of the Book Collector, and is read in the podcast by James Fleming.

The Introduction was written by Emil's children, Florence and Claude Offenbacher, and is read by Virginia Ferguson.

The twelfth and final episode of Fred Bason's Dairy, produced by The Book Collector, read by Clive Farahar and sponsored by Adrian Harrington Rare Books of Tunbridge Wells.

Episode 11 of the podcast series, Fred Bason's Diary, read by Clive Farahar, produced by The Book Collector and sponsored by Adrian Harrington Rare Books of Tunbridge Wells

Episode 10 of Fred Bason's Diary, read by Clive Farahar, produced by The Book Collector and sponsored by Adrian Harrington Rare Books of Tunbridge Wells.

In this, the ninth episode of Fred Bason's Diary we see our favourite cockney bookseller facing his biggest challenge yet - the bombing of London in World War II.

Listen now to hear how he faced this latest disaster and recounts previous challenges of his past life of poverty.

It is read by Clive Farahar, produced by The Book Collector, and sponsored by Adrian Harrington Rare Books of Tunbridge Wells.