TW: Mental health, suicide, sexual assault and alcoholism.

Welcome to the seventh episode of The Boar Podcast: Creating Conversation. This week Kate is joined by Lauren, Phoebe and Lillie of the Boar Books team to talk about the books that have helped them to get through the lockdowns. They also talk about their favourite articles written by Boar writers over the past week.

Read the articles discussed in this episode:

A new HG Wells £2 coin is full of errors by Reece Goodall: https://theboar.org/2021/01/a-new-hg-wells-2-coin-is-full-of-errors/ 

Books are indeed souvenirs by Sidney Pycroft: https://theboar.org/2021/01/travelling-bookworm-book-souvenirs/

Fantasy's true home will always be on the bookshelf, no on the screen by Ben Keedwell: https://theboar.org/2021/01/fantasy-books-over-film/

Reflecting on four years of Trump by Hamza Fareed Malik: https://theboar.org/2021/01/reflecting-on-4-years-of-donald-trump/

'Happy New Year': a poem by Millie Woodrow: https://theboar.org/2021/01/happynewyear/

Bonus: 'The Midnight Library' was my favourite 2020 read by Lauren Nicholson: https://theboar.org/2021/01/the-midnight-library-favourite-2020-read/

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In this episode:

Kate Rice - Co-Editor-in-Cheif

Alex Bryne - Deputy-Editor-in-Cheif

Lauren Nicholson - Editor of the Books section

Phoebe Dar - Deputy Editor of the Books section

Lillie Skerman - Deputy Editor of the Books section

Edited by Abbey Parker - Head of Multimedia

Books mentioned in this episode:

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

A Life On Our Planet by David Attenborough

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Plague by Albert Camus

Autumn by Ali Smith

Winter by Ali Smith

What Red Was by Rosie Price

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Books we're looking forward to:

Hamlet by Gillian Flynn

Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura

A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro