The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale Podcast
1) Timothy Heyman on B. Traven and how to manage a literary archive
B. Traven's novels and stories have sold more than 30 million copies over the past century in more than 30 languages worldwide. He was Einstein's favourite novelist. Der Spiegel ranks his The ...Show More
2) David McKnight on Collecting The Beatles
Some years ago I interviewed David McKnight about a collection of Canadian “little magazines” he’d hunted down and later donated to the University of Alberta’s Bruce Peel Library. It was very easy to ...Show More
3) Michael Erdman on the history of magazines (and women's rights) in Turkey
Michael Erdman is Head of Middle East and Central Asian Collections at The British Library with overall responsibility for all manuscript holdings in Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Chagatai, Coptic, H...Show More
4) Michael Erdman on the history of magazines (and women's rights) in Turkey
Michael Erdman is Head of Middle East and Central Asian Collections at The British Library with overall responsibility for all manuscript holdings in Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Chagatai, Coptic, H...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.5) Andres M. Zervigon on Illustrated Magazines
I first came across Andrés Mario Zervigón’s (Cuban) name while researching a magazine that filled me with awe the first time I saw it. AIZ, the Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung (Workers Illustrated Magaz...Show More
6) Tony Fekete on Collecting Erotica
Tony Fekete is a book collector who for years specialized in collecting erotica. He's best known for the catalogue he produced for a Christie’s auction that took place in 2014 that featured highlig...Show More
7) Siegfried Lukatis on Insel Bucherei, the iconic German book series
Siegfried Lokatis is a retired professor of book history, and former head of the University of Leipzig's Institute for Communication and Media Studies. He is the author of Book Covers of the GDR and...Show More
8) Richard Charkin on Lessons Learned from 50 Years in Book Publishing
Richard Charkin has held senior posts at many major, and some minor, publishing houses in the U.K. over the past 50 years, including: Harrap, OUP, Pergamon Press, Reed Elsevier, Macmillan, Bloomsbury,...Show More
9) Book scholar Jonathan Rose on who used to read Playboy magazine and Why
The last time I ran into renowned book scholar Jonathan Rose (at a SHARP conference) he mentioned that he was doing some work on Playboy magazine. ‘Way more women readers than you’d expect!’ he told m...Show More
10) Karen Etingin on running a vintage poster shop
Karen Etingin is the proprietor of L'Affichiste, a vintage poster shop in Montreal. Here's the scoop: "Working with private, corporate and institutional clients, L'Affichiste deals in vintage posters ...Show More