Andrew Edwards hosts an afternoon show here from 12 -3pm. Part of his show is the Big Yorkshire Book Club. He has invited local councils to join him and pick the book of the month. This month was the turn of my council Kirklees. They requested volunteers for names to go in a hat. The winner would choose the book and go along to talk to Andrew on his show.
Not wanting our little library to miss out, I put my name forward, never for one single second expecting it to be drawn out. It was!I was joined by Elaine Berry from Kirklees, who kindly came along to hold my hand and give me support.
On arrival at the studios, we were met by Katy Lambert who took us through and looked after us very well. Anyone who supplies me with a cup of tea is immediately my best friend. Everyone was friendly and very welcoming. They soon had us relaxed and laughing. When it was our turn to go into Andrew's studio we were joined by Phil Caplan who runs an independent bookshop in Roundhay, Leeds.He brought along a selection of books to discuss.
Andrew kindly asked about my own book, Resolution. I explained that I am busy with the revision suggested by the publisher. As soon as those are finished I will be re-submitting it to them, with fingers and everything else crossed.
The most exciting part about this is hopefully at
the end of this month, Andrew and his team will broadcast his show from our library. It does depend on whether they manage to get a signal there and an engineer is coming to check.
We've only recently gained a reasonable internet signal and the mobile signals vary enormously here, More fingers crossed!
Thank you to Andrew and all the team for an enjoyable afternoon, It was fascinating to learn what goes on behind the scenes,
I hope to welcome them to Shepley very soon.
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