A lovely tribute. I can only hope I leave behind such a difficult house to clear out 😂

I got my love of books from my dad too. The one bright spot in a very difficult broken relationship. The love and warmth of this is just so life affirming. As is the (well founded) trust in Trent to make all those memories and books into a really wonderful programme. I always look forward to a new episode of Bibliomaniac

An enchanting, heartfelt and humorous insight into your Dad's personality, his true love for family and passion for books. I will watch it again, and I will play it to my parents...in their home full of collections and things!!!

I called his office at CalTech 5 minutes after he left for the last time. His secretary was so kind to to me and told me how disappointed that he would be to have missed my call. I was on leave from the military and had been studying THE RED BOOKS for 3 years straight, he was my hero. When I got a Caltech t shirt from his office, I knew just how kind his secretary was to me. I went on to study and teach physics, though I was never able to get my PhD, I did inspire a number of my student to go on to get advanced degrees and that was my proudest achievement in teaching. I still have that Caltech t-shirt from 1988, how astounding is that? I still have my RED BOOKS TOO and I eventually got to teach students across the country. Feynman inspired me to do that. Now, I'm teaching physics to my wife and grandson! That's all thanks to Dick Feynman!👍😎❤️

I love this so much! It’s full of wonder and the joy of being human

Beautiful tribute, Robin.

Beautiful, warm and engaging film. The love really shines through. Thank you for making and sharing it.

I got my love of books from my father, too.

Trent shares with Robin the inability to walk past a second hand bookshop without going in and buying *something*. "Something?". Ha ha. I love that. By something, you mean a carrier bag full.

Love ❤❤

One of the sweetest things ever, sp happy i randomly found it...or...did it find me? 😉🤔

Thank you for sharing Robin, you once again show us the power of books aka love. My father didn't read much but made sure I did.

Loved this and it's one of the fears I have that following my own death, hopefully many years away, that nobody will have any idea what to do with my thousands of books, I'm so sorry for your loss he sounds like an amazing person. By the 'way the bookmark' you showed from the Penguin Tarka the Otter is actually all that remains from the left hand side of the dust wrapper.

Thank you. From a fellow bibliomaniac.

18 April 2024 marked seven years since my Dad passed away so I didn't feel I could watch this last night but I thoroughly enjoyed such a wonderfully loving tribute earlier today. Well done and very many thanks to everyone involved. I've just taken my own father's copy of "The Henry Williamson Animal Saga" from the bookshelf and will read it again, not just in his memory but also thinking of Robin and his Dad too.

Thank you for sharing this with us!

A wonderful tribute to your father, and a life lived so well. A bit there reminded me of my own dad, when you said you would call him about a book you thought he might like, as much an excuse to talk, my own dad was very different, he was a drinker and heavy smoker, a bit of a rogue, he would call me from his local pub (where he had his own seat and glass behind the bar) to ask about the latest “cheap goods’ he had been offered and see if I wanted anything.. but it was just an excuse to say hi and have a chat, he had disappeared from our lives for a while and I think he was trying to make up time.

Wonderful tribute, well done robin and trent x

I was so jealous of you interviewing David Attenborough....😊

Out of Africa, what a fabulous book. One of my favourite opening lines of a novel. Thanks for sharing x

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Sooo sweet and funny ❤️😊

Don't know what to say, but... LOVE.

I come from a family of bibliophiles too. My parents would regularly find and go to library sales and the book store was a stop every sunday. This is going to be my question one day.

Tsundoku in Japanese - Thank goodness I only collect e-books!

Sorry for your loss, Robin.

When my friend died, at his memorial service they laid all his books out on two huge tables and invited the friends and family to take home books to remember him by like a party bag - one book or a whole series or, frankly, as many as you could carry. It was a lovely gesture

The Goodies are the best! I'll always love them 💕 Vale Tim 🕊

'is name's Robin and he's got little thumbs.

Imagine the rage if someone didn’t choose a recent starter and finished with a cheese board

i love this idea, please keeping doing the good job

Do you ever think we might just be dumb for needing so much information to understand something? Like water is water even without understanding hydrogen and oxygen. Life doesn't need us to exist, we need it..meow

what the fuck is this shit bruh

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Goodness me, this was magnificent! Subbed - all day... Thank you! 👍

Wow, what a great story.

Never knew about this until google threw it into my morning feed today. Yay! I’ve followed the Infinite Monkey Cage for years!

12 Bytes by Jeanette Winterson My Life as a Father by Ross Campbell Period by Dennis Cooper The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels Ursula K. Le Guin: Collected Poems from the Library of America And So Did I by Malachi Whitaker Dr. Fegg's Encyclopaedia of All World Knowledge by Terry Jones and Michael Palin The Faber Book of Madness edited by Roy Porter The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter Unidentified book by Jorge Luis Borges The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe Ramble Book by Adam Buxton Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin by Terrance Dicks Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz Eternity's Sunrise by Marion Milner Searoad by Ursula K. Le Guin The Rag and Bone Shop by Veronica O'Keane In the Psychiatrist's Chair by Anthony Clare Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flyn Wonderworks by Angus Fletcher

Such a brilliant conference! Can't wait for Lisbon

Capaldi speaks and I listen. Simple as that.

Please make more of these

I love how Meryl Halls couldn't quite hold in the giggle when explaining how Bibliomaniac came about

You know robin ince once suckled milk from a cows udder

Actually, kettle crisps (of either vintage) could make a kick-ass chip butty with Ethiopian flat bread!

I had to listen to some of that a couple of times, then I realised you had said you were marking up books “with my pencil,” not “with my pants on.” I thought you were reading in the bathroom. In my defence, I’ve got an unpleasant cold at the moment.

Hello All, Im so sorry, I know your all saying such intellectual, intelligent stuff.... but im too busy swooning over how gorgeous my Sofi (aka Sofia Aziz) looks. OMG you gorgeous thing ... maybe if you gave me your face, i might have a highlight of the 4 decades i've lived !!! Can't take my eyes of you Sofi Lots of Love Aisha xxxxx

Πόσα γυναικεία χαρίσματα υπάρχουν και στολίζουν τη ζωή όλων μας...Πόσα ανδρικά χαρίσματα υπάρχουν πάλι και εν τούτοις φτάνουν στη κορυφή της αναγνωρισιμοτητας...

It's absolutely amazing how discoveries continue to be made, especially regarding the past, be it related to the Ancient Egyptians and what they understood about physiology or how two stars colliding to create a powerful gamma ray burst and we are just seeing the rest of that cosmic collision now!

Metamorphosis is an accurate representation. Just released a nine year study of MS as things I would like to have known when I was first diagnosed. Cheers

No content. Just mindless chatter and silly things. Production terrible.