Book of the Week is a long-running BBC Radio 4 series, first broadcast in 1998. It features daily readings from an abridged version of a selected book...
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A week is a unit of time equal to seven days. It is the standard time period used for short cycles of days in most parts of the world. The days are often...
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by Doubleday. The book became a bestseller, topping The New York Times best-seller list in the nonfiction category for its first week of publication. Twenty-four...
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Once a Week is a collection of short stories and vignettes by A. A. Milne originally published in Punch. The collection was first published on 15 October...
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Outliers: The Story of Success is a non-fiction book written by Canadian writer Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown and Company on November...
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Dan Stevens (category Actors from the London Borough of Croydon)
Innocent". BBC Radio 4. "Book of the Week, William Fiennes – The Music Room". BBC Radio 4. "Classic Serial, Edith Wharton – The Custom of the Country, Episode...
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Julian Rhind-Tutt (category Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
July 2016. "Birth of a Theorem, Book of the Week". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 24 July 2016. "The Inheritor's Powder". BBC Radio 4. "The Corrections". BBC...
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In a vast number of languages, the names given to the seven days of the week are derived from the names of the classical planets in Hellenistic astronomy...
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Wild (memoir) (redirect from Wild (book))
was selected as Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4, where a five-episode abridgement of the book was read. 2013: Wild spent 52 weeks on the NPR Hardcover Nonfiction...
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Roald Dahl (redirect from The Complete Adventures of Charlie and Willy Wonka)
Radio 4's Book of the Week in 2016 to mark the centenary of his birth. Dahl wrote about his time at St Peter's in his autobiography Boy: Tales of Childhood...
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the patriarch Enoch who was the father of Methuselah and the great-grandfather of Noah. The Book of Enoch contains unique material on the origins of demons...
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Bettany Hughes (category Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London)
featured as a Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. It was shortlisted for a Writer's Guild Award. Istanbul was reviewed by The New York Review of Books and was...
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Radio 4's Book of the Week read by Obama herself. In 2018, Obama released her memoir Becoming which sold more than 14 million copies worldwide. The Light...
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Just Kids (redirect from Just Kids (book))
March 2010. It was the Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 from 1–5 March 2010, with Smith reading five 15-minute excerpts from her book. In August 2015, it...
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which was the winner of Britain's Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2008, and was read as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week in April the same year...
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the book in their Book of the Week series. Free won the Ondaatje Prize, the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize, and the Lumo Skëndo Prize for the Best...
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after life explained, The Guardian, June 13, 2009. Book of the week: Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlives by David Eagleman, The Week, March 6, 2009. Story...
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Jewish Book Week is a literary festival in London, held annually in February and March, that explores Jewish literature, ideas and culture. The festival...
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Three Weeks is a 1907 erotic romance novel by Elinor Glyn. Paul Verdayne, wealthy English nobleman in his early twenties, is caught embracing the parson's...
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the media. Culture of Israel Hebrew literature Hebrew Book Week 2006 Archived 2006-08-21 at the Wayback Machine National Book Week Hebrew Book Week Homepage...
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at the week in news, politics and current events. As of July 27, 2025,[update] 338 episodes of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver have aired. The show is...
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Monster of the Week (MOTW) is an urban fantasy-horror tabletop role-playing game developed by Michael Sands. It was first published in 2012, and a revised...
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a Half Weeks: A Memoir of a Love Affair is a 1978 memoir by Ingeborg Day, first published under the pen name Elizabeth McNeill. It details the brief,...
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Malcolm Gladwell (redirect from The talent myth)
Detective". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 November 2009. Tonkin, Boyd (21 November 2008). "Book of the Week: Outliers, By Malcolm Gladwell". The Independent...
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on BBC Radio 4 as Book of the Week between Monday 10 and Friday 14 January 2005. The Last Duel, a drama documentary based on the book and including comments...
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Strange New Things'". The New York Times. Retrieved February 24, 2015. McGill, Hannah (October 9, 2014). "Book of the week: The Book of Strange New Things...
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Small Pleasures (category Novels set in the 1950s)
longlisted for the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction, and featured on the BBC's talk show Between the Covers as a Book of the Week Pick. Set in 1957, the novel follows...
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Mock the Week's Funniest Book of All Time (2011) Mock the Week's Only Book You'll Ever Need (2012) Mock the Week's Ultimate Panic-Buy! (2013) Mock the Week's...
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animated remake of Disney's 1967 animated film The Jungle Book, which itself is loosely based on Rudyard Kipling's story collection The Jungle Book. Neel Sethi...
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Daniel Tammet (redirect from Embracing the Wide Sky)
collection of essays, was first published in 2012 and serialised as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week in the United Kingdom. Tammet's translation into French of a...
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