Touring themed literary readings to libraries, art centres, heritage sites, village halls, galleries, pubs & other community venues
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Border Reader Justin Webb narrates the full length Sherlock Holmes 'Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist' dir. Stephen Tomlin, studio recording @Terry_TWDA Hear it here: youtube.com/watch?v=gKot8dG2…
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Our farewell Shore Lines gig!...Heron Theatre Fri 27th March (7.30) Roberta Stephen & @HelsLongworth read ace short stories by @AnnCleeves @JoScottHeritage @LindaJCracknell @SarabandBooks & @tonyglover11 theherontheatre.com/whats-on…
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Join us for some intimate dark sky reading entertainment in the F&L tap room at #Bellingham #Northumberland 6.30 Wed 18th Feb Tickets firstandlastbrewery.co.uk/pr… ...@JoScottHeritage @hexhamtv @tonyglover11 @NlandNP @CultureNland @OxfamHexham
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Jan 10
These are both train stations.
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27 Dec 2025
A wonderful animation of Beethoven's 5th Symphony.
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23 Dec 2025
Best wishes for Christmas & the new year from all us Border Readers to our wonderful bookers & audiences across the borderlands...We'll be back next autumn with more intimate short story readings in community arts venues! @literatureposts #Culture #Arts #Reading
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The Border Readers retweeted
22 Dec 2025
A poem by Brian Bilston
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5 Dec 2025
That's it for '25. Shore Lines casts off before a fab full house at Pheasant Inn Cumwhitton #Cumbria...Back in autumn '26 with a brand new themed tour! @literatureposts @LindaJCracknell @AnnCleeves @tonyglover11 @JoScottHeritage #Reading #shortstories #Culture #Northumberland
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23 Nov 2025
2 sell out shows this past week at Gregson Centre #Lancaster & The Vault #Hexham...Last 'Shore Lines' tour gig at The Pheasant Inn Cumwhitton #Cumbria Thurs 4 Dec (8pm) @LindaJCracknell @tonyglover11 @AnnCleeves @JoScottHeritage @literatureposts #readingcommunity #shortstories
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9 Nov 2025
The writer as reader...@JoScottHeritage steps in to cover brilliantly for an injured colleague last week on our 'Shore Lines' tour at #Allendale Library @NlandLibs & @DennisKilgallon Gallery Whitfield @NorthPenninesNL #LiteraturePosts #Reading #art #Northumberland
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3 Nov 2025
This is a recently completed British train station. It is pathetic, value engineered to a level of comatose ugliness that dispirits & dulls the mind, dissuading passengers & degrading the trains that run through it. It is not civic or sociable architecture....
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3 Nov 2025
Back on the road to #Allendale library @NlandLibs @NlandNP Thurs 6 (7pm) & Kilgallon Gallery #Whitfield on Sat 8 (7pm) Tickets eventbrite.co.uk #Northumberland #Literature @AnnCleeves @tonyglover11 @JoScottHeritage @LindaJCracknell
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20 Oct 2025
Full on 4 readings in a row last week touring #Northumberland...@litandphil #Newcastle Seaton Sluice @NlandLibs Wingates Village Institute & @drywaterarts #Amble great listening audiences everywhere! @JoScottHeritage @AnnCleeves @tonyglover11 @LindaJCracknell @SarabandBooks
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8 Oct 2025
Great night before full house of appreciative listeners loving 'Shore Lines' at #Wooler part of @BerwickLitFest ...Thanks to @NlandLibs Kath & volunteers for FoH #Northumberland #Culture #Literature #Libraries #readingcommunity
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6 Oct 2025
Looking forward to being back in #Wooler Cheviot Centre @NlandLibs Tuesday 7pm as part of @BerwickLitFest with 'Shore Lines' @MadeInNland @CultureNland @GlendaleTrust @JoScottHeritage #shortstories #Literature #Northumberland
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29 Sep 2025
Ferns, oak branches & sheep paintings all feature in 50 years of Andy Goldsworthy...Glorious retrospective, running to 2 Nov @NatGalleriesSco #art #Landscape A great day out in @edinburgh by train from #Newcastle
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27 Sep 2025
Listening out for 2nd showing of 'Shore Lines' at #Elsdon #Northumberland C14th St Cuthbert's church. Big thanks to @JoScottHeritage for superb hosting @OurRedesdale @CultureNland @NewWritingNorth @NlandNP....15 more gigs across the borderlands to go!
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23 Sep 2025
We've set sail! @TheWord_UK #SouthShields 1st gig of the Shore Lines tour...Thanks to our brilliant writers @AnnCleeves @tonyglover11 Linda Cracknell @SarabandBooks @JoScottHeritage #Reading #shortstories #Northumberland #Cumbria #Literature
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19 Sep 2025
'Shore Lines' sets sail at @TheWord_UK (Mon 22) and Elsdon (Fri 26) with lots more Borderlands gigs to follow @NlandNP @OurRedesdale @JoScottHeritage @NewWritingNorth @CultureNland #LiteraturePosts
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