For 2020's Libraries Week we were thrilled to host a conversation with Richard Ovenden, director of Oxford University’s Bodleian Library. He is the author of Burning the Books, which was published in the beginning of September 2020 when it was also BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week. The book takes us on a fascinating journey through 3,000 years of the destruction of information and the battle for its survival.
Richard also grew up in Kent, and is full of praise for his local library at Deal which he talks about in this interview with Libraries, Registration and Archives' head of service James Pearson.