Jeanette Winterson celebrates reading – ‘a private conversation happening somewhere in the soul,’  – on Radio 4′s Book of the Week  slot- Stop What Your Doing and Read This. A Book. A Bed. A Mountain.

If you do nothing else this week – as Jan who sent me the link says (and thank you, thank you Jan) – then LISTEN  HERE you won’t be disppointed

From the website – Passionate, funny, revelatory and inspiring, this series is a mission statement about the transformative power of reading; about the way it inspires us, the tangible impact it can have on our well-being and the importance it holds for us now and will continue to hold in the future.