We’re like any book group, we start talking about one book then ramble on, but for this one you don’t even have to leave home !
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Each month we choose a book, then come together to discuss it. Plus there’s music directly linked to the reading and often a guest.
Presented by Helen Ottaway, Polly Ellis and Sheila Hedges with sound engineer Ed Timoshyshyn, FromeFM's On-Air Book Group is broadcast on the third Thursday of the month at 2pm and repeated the following week.
With a wide range of different books, we have covered biographies, the arts, nature, murder, the classics; we have read re-writes of the classics, and new interpretations of old legends.
Coming up on 20th August - The Great Level by Stella Tillyard. Write to books@frome.fm and tell us what you think !
Our last few shows - all of which can be found on Mixcloud at
https://www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/playlists/on-air-book-group/
120 16th July - The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
119 18th June - A woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter plus guest Kylie Fitzpatrick
118 21st May - Silvia Park's Luminous
117 16th April - Grahsm Swift's Here We Are
116 19th March - The Mission House by Carys Davies with guest Susan Cullip
115 19th February - The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky with local author Dianne Sangster author of Flutter
114 15th January 2026 - Interview with Booker prize shortlisted author Andrew Miller and his book The Land in Winter
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