The Booktown Blether Podcast
Conversations from Wigtown, Scotland’s National Booktown.
Episodes
Welcome to Booktown Blether, the podcast straight from Wigtown, Scotland's National Booktown.
This time we Jayne and Lou talk to Ada Montgomery about all the events happening during Wigtown Week in July!
Welcome to Booktown Blether, the podcast from Wigtown, Scotland's National Booktown!
In this episode Jayne talks to Bre Martin from New Chapter Books about his upcoming book Kirkyard Chronicles and Matt Kitson about...well, lots!
Welcome to Booktown Blether, the podcast straight from Wigtown, Scotland's National Booktown!
In this episode, Lou talks to author Lawrie Johnston about his new book A Raven Rising.
3 mics? What could go wrong? Jayne is joined by Ruth from Well Read Books and Dawn from Spinning a Yarn to talk about, well, anything really!
Welcome to Booktown Blether, episode 34...possibly!
Jayne talks to Anne Barclay about the upcoming Spring Weekend in the town and some of the events that will be on during the mini-festival from the 2-4 of May.
Welcome to the Booktown Blether Podcast from the heart of Wigtown, Scotland's National Booktown!
In this episode, Lou from New Chapter talks to Dawn from Spinning a Yarn about TV and film adaptations of Agatha Christie novels, amongst other things...
A packed episode with poetry from Helen McDonald, no poetry from Lou and absolutely no poetry at all from Ruth!
Wigtown's all set for Christmas and Jayne talks to Anne Barclay about what's happening this festive season!
In this special episode of Booktown Blether, Jayne talks to Isla Rosser-Owen, the new CEO of Wigtown Festival Company.
Please note: Audio gremlins strike again! We're sorry that Jayne's mic is terrible in this episode, hopefully it'll be fixed once I hit it with something.
The 2025 Wigtown Book Festival has come to an end and Jayne sits down with Ruth and Lou to chat about the ups and downs of a bookseller during a book festival.
Welcome to another, packed to the brim edition of the Booktown Blether!
This episode has Anne Barclay talking about the upcoming Wigtown Book Festival, Rosie Dobson talking about the Wigtown Fringe events as well as Jayne, Ruth and Lou!
Welcome to the Booktown Blether. A podcast about all things bookish to do with Wigtown, Scotland's National Booktown!
Welcome to the Booktown Blether!
In this special, Lou blethers with Ada Montgomery about the upcoming Wigtown Week!
Welcome to Booktown Blether episode 28 (probably 28, I've lost count).
In this episode Jayne talks to Ruth Anderson from Well Read Books, Liam Murphy about writing, and Lou Martin from New Chapter Books about her bedside table book pile!
In this shorter episode, Lou has a wee chat with Anne Barclay about the upcoming events during the Wigtown Spring Weekend, 3-5 of May.
Welcome to another edition of the Booktown Blether from the heart of Scotland's National Booktown, here in Wigtown.
Ruth has come back from her Antipodean travels and Matt Kitson has some updates about the church hall...which is more exciting than it sounds, honest!
Welcome to Booktown Blether, episode 26! Okay, confession time - Jayne's audio in this episode is terrible, but we've some important updates regarding the community takeover of the Wigtown Ploughman, so we decided to publish anyway.
Hope you can enjoy it despite some audio issues!
Welcome to the Booktown Blether - Episode 25 (but don't quote me on that!)
This time, Jayne talks to author, poet, singer, storyteller and champion of the Scots Language, Suzi Briggs.
Later, Jayne talks to Lou about what's happening soon in Wigtown, Scotland's National Booktown.
Jayne, Ruth, Lou and Dawn come together for one last podcast for 2024!
Welcome to Booktown Blether episode 23.
Lou from New Chapter Books and Dawn, from Spinning a Yarn, talk about the events taking place in Wigtown during the festive season.
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