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This December, we're bringing you a few of our favourite audio long reads from the past year.

We originally asked Ida Edomariam, who wrote a beautiful piece about a North Oxford primary school last year,

to look into what was happening in libraries.

Because I'd read that where they weren't actually closing, which of course a lot of them are,

they'd become the front line for many social services that had nothing to do with books or reading.

It took a few months to locate the perfect library to be the centre of our story.

But Ida has a great instinct for these things,

and she found, in Redding's Battle Library,

two people who've created something really extraordinary.

Amanda Giles and Terry Curran have a great friendship

and run an exceptional library with great care and skill, devising new

creative ways to bring people into the world of books, often paying for art materials for their

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