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Books tell all kinds of stories—romances, tragedies, comedies—but if we learn to read the signs correctly, they can tell us the story of their own making too. The Book-Makers offers a new way into the story of Western culture’s most important object, the book, through dynamic portraits of eighteen individuals who helped to define it.

The Book-Makers is a celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through the lives of eighteen extraordinary men and women who took the book in radical new directions: printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper-makers and library founders. This is a story of skill, craft, mess, cunning, triumph, improvisation, and error.

Meet Erskine Melville, Senior Monster Hunter for Leek Valley Borough Council. He's responsible for all monster related activity across the Three Gorge region. A sixth generation Hunter, and the son of the revered Reservoir Melville, Erskine is probably the foremost authority on the subject in the British Isles. Written and produced by Erskine Melville with assistance from Rob Smyth, Peter Richard Adams and Rosie Green. Art by Andy Dickinson at The Quill Design.