The Northern Children's Book Festival is organised and hosted by library services in the north east of England. NCBF is a registered charity.

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December 14, 2007

NCB FM Gala Day 2007 Podcasts – Geraldine McCaughran

The Newcastle boys talk to Geraldine McCaughran about the books she used to read as a child and her advice on writing your own book.

Listen to the interview here

November 17, 2007

NCB FM Gala Day 2007 Podcasts - Cathy Cassidy

Lydia, Jessica and Niamh talk to best-selling author Cathy Cassidy. Find out what books of her her own are her favourite and who gets to see them first!

Download the podcast here (Length: 2min 46sec, File size: 2.5MB)

NCB FM Gala Day 2007 Podcasts - The Mayor of Sunderland

Listen to the boys Chris, Jordan and David chat with the Mayor of Sunderland, Leslie Scott, about what it is like to be a mayor and his thoughts on the Gala Day.

Listen to the Mayor of Sunderland here (Length: 3min 7sec, File size: 2.9MB)

NCB FM Gala Day 2007 Podcasts - Main Hall activities - Libraries

Join David, Chris and Jordan in the main hall where all the libraries from across the region have stalls with crafts for all the children attending the Gala Day.

The boys spoke to Lesley from Newcastle City Libraries who was helping children to make crowns and Pauline from South Tyneside Libraries who was making monk peg dolls and bookmarks with anglo-saxon writing.

Listen to the boys in the main hall (Length: 1min 15sec, File size: 1.1MB)

NCB FM Gala Day 2007 Podcasts - Robert Crowther

Listen to Robert Crowther, author of the book The Most Amazing Hide-and-Seek Alphabet Book being interviewed by Jordan from the Newcastle Library radio club.

Download podcast (Length: 1min 23sec, File size: 1.3MB)


You can find out more about the author and his books here

NCB FM Gala Day 2007 Podcasts - Andy Stanton

Hear our roving NCBFM reporters Lydia, Jessica and Niamh interview author of Andy Stanton just before his session at the Gala Day at the Crowtree Centre.

Listen to the podcast here (Length: 2min 44sec, File size: 2.5MB)


You can find out more information about Andy Stanton here

November 16, 2007

NCB FM Gala Day 2007 pre-podcast!

You can now download and listen to the first pre-Gala Day 2007 podcast. Find out what your librarian's favourite children's book is and learn how you can join Sunderland Libraries.

Listen to the podcast here

December 12, 2006

NCBF 2006 Podcast update

More podcasts are available to listen to from the Hartlepool Library web site. You can hear from some of the co-organisers of the event, South Tyneside and Newcastle Libraries talk about their activity stalls and how one helper took to her new day job as a 'skunk'.

November 27, 2006

More podcasts from the Gala day!

More interview podcasts with the authors present at the Gala Day are now available.

You can now listen to Cathy Cassidy, Debi Gliori, Kjartan Poskitt and Steve Weatherill.

November 18, 2006

Podcasts from the day

You can now listen to the first of the podcasts from the Gala Day from the Hartlepool Library web site.