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• Quick Reads 2011: Terry Jones Chapter Sample - [3 MB]2011-02-21 13:18

  Terry Jones reads the first chapter from his 2011 Quick Read, Trouble on the Heath

• Quick Reads 2011: Terry Jones - [6 MB]2011-02-21 13:15

  Terry Jones talks about his 2011 Quick Read, Trouble on the Heath

• Quick Reads 2011: Lucy Cavendish - [4 MB]2011-02-17 15:29

  Lucy Cavendish talks about her 2011 Quick Read, Jack and Jill.

• Quick Reads 2011: Charlie Oatway - [5 MB]2011-02-17 15:23

  Charlie Oatway talks about his 2011 Quick Read, Tackling Life

• Quick Reads 2011: Priya Basil - [5 MB]2011-01-25 16:56

  Author Priya Basil talks about her 2011 Quick Read, Strangers on the 16:02

• Quick Reads 2010: Alvin Hall - [4 MB]2010-03-03 16:09

  Alvin Hall talks about his 2010 Quick Read, Money Magic

• Quick Reads 2010: Cathy Kelly - [3 MB]2010-03-01 16:45

  Cathy Kelly talks about her 2010 Quick Read, The Perfect Holiday.

• Quick Reads 2010: Bernadine Evaristo - [8 MB]2010-02-16 17:03

  Bernadine Evaristo talks about her 2010 Quick Read, Hello Mum.

• Quick Reads 2009: Interview with Patience Thomson - [1 MB]2009-03-04 18:11

  Patience Thomson is a writer, lecturer and expert on reading. She was a head teacher at a school in London for children with specific learning difficulties and she co-founded Barrington Stoke, a publisher of books for reluctant readers. She speaks to Ed Melia, NIACE Press Officer, about her life helping people to read and her Quick Read - 101 ways to get your child to read.

• Quick Reads 2009: Interview with Ian Rankin - [3 MB]2009-03-04 17:01

  Ian Rankin talks about his new Quick Reads book entitled "A Cool Head".

• Quick Reads 2008: Scott Quinnell interview - [2 MB]2008-03-05 11:21

  Former Welsh and British Lion Rugby International Scott Quinnell talks to Ed Melia, NIACE Press Officer, about his Quick Read, The Hardest Test which details his illustrious playing career and his struggle with dyslexia.

• Quick Reads 2008: Gilda O'Neill interview - [2 MB]2008-03-05 11:19

  Gilda O’Neill grew up in the East End of London. She left school at the age of fifteen but later returned to education as an adult learner. She talks to Ed Melia, NIACE Press Officer, about her Quick Read East End Tales.

• Quick Reads 2008: Dyslexia and Quick Reads - [2 MB]2008-03-05 11:16

  For many people Quick Reads are not only the first book they ever finish reading, but books they really enjoy reading. This can be after trying all sorts of books for many years. In a special report, Ed Melia, NIACE Press Officer, talks to people with dyslexia about how Quick Reads have transformed their lives.

• Quick Reads 2007: John Simpson Interview - [2 MB]2007-03-16 13:00

  Ed Melia, NIACE Press Officer spoke to BBC World Affairs Editor, John Simpson, about his Quick Read - Twenty Tales from the War Zone

• Quick Reads 2007 - [981 KB]Transcript2007-03-05 13:03

  The impact of the Quick Reads has been huge. In this special report, NIACE Press Officer, Ed Melia, speaks to Quick Reads Project Director Kathy Gale, Bill Rammell MP, Minister of State for Lifelong Learning and Further and Higher Education, Mo Mowforth, a Skills for Life Tutor in Hull and two of her learners, Tina and Sue.

• Quick Reads 2007: Minette Walters Interview - [2 MB]Transcript2007-02-07 13:05

  NIACE Press Officer, Ed Melia, spoke to Minette Walters, author of one of the first Quick Reads - Chickenfeed - the winner of the inaugural Quick Read Learners' Favourite Award in 2006.