Having converted the UK into history buffs, The Rest is History co-host Dominic Sandbrook is hoping his new podcast project will do the same for our enjoyment of reading A s somebody who has been immersed in books since I can remember, I struggle to imagine never reading at all. But all the evidence suggests I am on the wrong side of history. Surveys show that children’s appetite for reading is in freefall: fewer than one in five British youngsters between eight and 18 read every day, with the