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- Bodleian Libraries
- Friends of the Bodleian Annual Lecture // Richard Ovenden: Defending Knowledge: Why Libraries Matter
Friends of the Bodleian Annual Lecture // Richard Ovenden: Defending Knowledge: Why Libraries Matter
Drawing from his acclaimed book Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack, Richard will discuss how libraries, librarians, and archivists bear the profound responsibility of preserving and transparently sharing information, and their critical role in safeguarding knowledge for future generations.
“Why are books destroyed? It’s about control—controlling knowledge to control societies, to control the way people behave, the way people think, the way people spend money.” – Richard Ovenden
Speaker
Richard Ovenden OBE is the 25th Bodley’s Librarian and the Helen Hamlyn Director of the University Libraries at the University of Oxford. He holds this post together with being Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums. Richard serves as President of the Digital Preservation Coalition, and as a member of the Advisory Council of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz. He has written extensively on the history of the book and current concerns in the library, archive and information worlds. He is the author of Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack.
- Penguin Books
- How a hippo almost ruined my Harry Potter scene | Ask Penguin Podcast with Dawn French
How a hippo almost ruined my Harry Potter scene | Ask Penguin Podcast with Dawn French
Content warning: this episode contains content on suicide and suicidal feelings.
In this episode of Ask Penguin, Rhianna Dhillon sits down with bestselling author and comedy legend Dawn French to discuss her new novel Enough. Later, we're joined in the studio by Penguin colleagues to answer more of your questions and give out plenty of brilliant book recommendations.
Discover all the books mentioned in this episode here: https://bit.ly/AskPenguin_DawnFrench
About the book
Enough follows Etta, 68, happy, healthy and satisfied with the life she has lived. One morning she gathers her family together and drops a bombshell that they all have one day to come to terms with - this will be Etta’s final day alive.
About the author:
Dawn French has been making people laugh for 30 years. As a writer, comedian and actor, she has appeared in some of this country's most long-running and celebrated shows, including French and Saunders, The Vicar of Dibley, Jam and Jerusalem, and more recently, Can You Keep A Secret? Her first three novels, A Tiny Bit Marvellous, Oh Dear Silvia, and According to YES are all Sunday Times bestsellers.
For more information about the National Year of Reading, click here: https://goallin.org.uk
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0:00 Dawn French Intro
01:57 What is Dawn French's new book about?
05:37 What is Dawn French's Writing Process?
09:02 What does the title Enough mean?
11:39 What are the themes and characters in Enough?
16:51 Where is Enough by Dawn French set?
18:09 The Barcelona incident
21:19 The importance of the kitchen in the home?
28:48 What do people think about Enough by Dawn French?
33:18 Is Enough getting a film or stage adaptation?
34:16 Nostalgia and homesickness
36:06 Grandmother and granddaughter relationships
37:38 Dawn French on Kae Tempest
40:00 The book that sparked your love of reading?
41:40 Ask Penguin Questions
41:53 What is Dawn French reading now?
43:47 What book emotionally wrecked you?
48:07 What's a book that made you laugh out loud?
48:45 Dawn French and the hippo
54:04 What's a book you would pass down to the next generation?
59:49 Closing
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