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Reader, writer, broadcaster. Presents A Good Read (BBC Radio4) & World Book Club (BBC World Service)
Yes, do listen. Itâs a great discussion.
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A comedy about radical Islam (seriously); our manufactured world; a motherhood mystery: an eclectic selection of book suggestions from
@drjuliashaw.bsky.social
Hayaatun Sillem & me on todayâs A Good Read, 3pm on BBC Radio 4; online thereafter
@nussaibah.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Julia Shaw and Hayaatun Sillem
Psychologist Julia Shaw and engineer Hayaatun Sillem discuss favourite books with Harriett
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002lzwd
6 days ago
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7 days ago
A daring comedy debut about de-radicalisation, an investigation of manufacturing & an unsettling novella. Psychologist
@drjuliashaw.bsky.social
engineer @HayaatunSillem &
@harriettsg.bsky.social
recommend
#books
they love. A Good Read 3pm Mon @BBCRadio4
#BBC
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Julia Shaw and Hayaatun Sillem
Psychologist Julia Shaw and engineer Hayaatun Sillem discuss favourite books with Harriett
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002lzwd
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Especially if youâre an elder sister, a great episode of
@bbcworldbookclub.bsky.social
with Oyinkan Braithwaite chatting with readers about My Sister the Serial Killer
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
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BBC World Service - World Book Club, Oyinkan Braithwaite - My Sister, The Serial Killer
Harriett talks to Oyinkan Braithwaite about My Sister, The Serial Killer.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct74s5
14 days ago
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Emma Harding
21 days ago
Books by Carol Shields, Umberto Eco & Abdulrazak Gurnah are the choices of
@harriettsg.bsky.social
& her A Good Read guests, neuroscientist Sophie Scott and writer Tom Cox
@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
3pm @BBCRadio4 & @BBCSounds Producer Becky Ripley
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Tom Cox and Sophie Scott
Neuroscientist Sophie Scott and writer Tom Cox discuss favourite books with Harriett.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ldh2
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Tennis, spies and Sonic Youth: the usual wild variety of book suggestions from Chris Tarrant, author Mike Gayle and me on A Good Read 3pm today @BBCRadio4 Come join us
27 days ago
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28 days ago
#Books
Chris Tarrant and Mike Gayle A Good Read Today 15:00 BBC Radio 4 Chris Tarrant nominates OPEN by Andre Agassi Mike Gayle has gone for SONIC YOUTH SLEPT ON MY FLOOR by Dave Haslam
@harriettsg.bsky.social
⏠selects THE SECRET HOURS by Mick Herron
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BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Chris Tarrant and Mike Gayle
The broadcaster and writer nominate favourite books.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002l375
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28 days ago
Two memoirs and a thriller today on A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds as TV presenter Chris Tarrant & writer Mike Gayle join
@harriettsg.bsky.social
to champion
#books
they love. Tennis, DJing & espionage. Producer Sally Heaven
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Cannibal mothers; sex; fanaticism: novelist Sarah Waters and filmmaker Walter Murch introduce the usual heterogeneous mix of books on
#agoodread
@BBCRadio4 3pm today, online thereafter
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Sarah Waters and Walter Murch
Novelist Sarah Waters and film editor Walter Murch share favourite books.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002krlp
about 1 month ago
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Emma Harding
about 1 month ago
Looking for some book inspiration? A Good Read @BBCRadio4 is back - with a riveting roster of readers. Today, novelist Sarah Waters & film editor Walter Murch join
@harriettsg.bsky.social
to talk bears, fanaticism & Irish women. 3pm Mon 13 Oct. Producer Maggie Ayre.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Sarah Waters and Walter Murch
Novelist Sarah Waters and film editor Walter Murch share favourite books.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002krlp
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ICYMI Perfect for Halloween
@bbcworldbookclub.bsky.social
chats with
@silviamg.bsky.social
about her fun, creepy novel Mexican Gothic
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
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BBC World Service - World Book Club, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct74s4
about 1 month ago
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BBC World Book Club
about 2 months ago
You can hear Silvia Moreno-Garcia talk about 'Mexican Gothic' on World Book Club this Saturday, meanwhile here's a taster for you. Speaking of taste, I now want to try those pastes so badly...
#booksky
#gothic
#horror
#mexicangothic
#silviamorenogarcia
#wbc
#bbc
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@sherlockholmesmag.co.uk
ICYMI Some great chat about Holmes, Watson, the Baskerville Hound and more with fans from around the world
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
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BBC World Service - World Book Club, Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles
Join Harriett for a special episode exploring the legacy of Sherlock Holmes.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct74s3
2 months ago
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Sue Librarian Ph.D.
2 months ago
The recent Arthur Conan Doyle episode of the wonderful BBC World Book Club was so marvelous! It was live at a bookshop in Edinburgh - the panelists were superb, the questions from around the world were excellent, and the Baskerville hound was just as terrifying as ever! Thx
@harriettsg.bsky.social
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2 months ago
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3 months ago
#Books
A Good Read @BBCRadio4
#OnDemand
RUNNING WITH SCISSORS by Augusten Burroughs, chosen by
@robrinder.bsky.social
⏠THE ODD WOMAN AND THE CITY by Vivian Gornick, chosen by
@harriettsg.bsky.social
⏠EARTHLINGS by Sayaka Murata, chosen by
@junodawson.bsky.social
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www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Rob Rinder and Juno Dawson
The barrister and the writer discuss books they feel passionate about.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002gqgg
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Emma Harding
3 months ago
Fiction from Japan, a
#memoir
of adolescence & essays on New York life in todayâs A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 The barrister & writer
@robrinder.bsky.social
& author
@junodawson.bsky.social
talk
#books
with
@harriettsg.bsky.social
Producer Sally Heaven
#fiction
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Rob Rinder and Juno Dawson
The barrister and the writer discuss books they feel passionate about.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002gqgg
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A totally weird Japanese novel; thoughts from NY; Augusten Burroughs' memoir: intriguing book suggestions from Rob Rinder & Juno Dawson on A Good Read, @BBCRadio4 3pm today; online thereafter. Come and join us
3 months ago
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Emma Harding
4 months ago
By the first of August the invisible beetles began to snore and the grass was as tough as hemp and was no color â no more than the sand was a color and we had worn our bare feet bare since the twentieth of June - Anne Sexton
#poetry
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4 months ago
Zadie Smith & Colm TĂłibĂn join
@harriettsg.bsky.social
for todayâs A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 A devoted father in Colombia, a modern-day picaresque through London, and a languid summer romance. Produced by Eliza Lomas
#books
#fiction
#memoir
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Zadie Smith and Colm TĂłibĂn
Two authors join Harriett Gilbert to share favourite books.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002gfzl
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4 months ago
#Books
A Good Read Mon 15:00 BBC Radio 4 THE TRUCE by Primo Levi, chosen by
@horatioclare.bsky.social
⏠THE SUN DOES SHINE by Anthony Ray Hinton with Lara Love Hardin, chosen by
@joannahs.bsky.social
⏠SULA by Toni Morrison, chosen by
@harriettsg.bsky.social
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www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Joanna Hardy-Susskind and Horatio Clare
Writer Horatio Clare joins barrister Joanna Hardy-Susskind to discuss favourite books.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002g371
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Emma Harding
4 months ago
Need some summer
#reading
inspiration? Join writer
@horatioclare.bsky.social
criminal defence barrister
@joannahs.bsky.social
& presenter
@harriettsg.bsky.social
to hear about the
#books
that have inspired them. A Good Read 3pm Mon 21 July @BBCRadio4 or @BBCSounds
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Joanna Hardy-Susskind and Horatio Clare
Writer Horatio Clare joins barrister Joanna Hardy-Susskind to discuss favourite books.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002g371
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Sue Librarian Ph.D.
4 months ago
@harriettsg.bsky.social
+ A Good Read have done it again! While I often have little interest in the books or topics, the guests and the discussions are unfailingly riveting, and I always learn so much! I listen to over 40 podcasts and this is one of the absolute best. Can't wait for each one. Thx!
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Bloodaxe Books
4 months ago
The late Fleur Adcock's 2010 collection
#DragonTalk
will be discussed on A Good Read today, 14 July, chosen by host
@harriettsg.bsky.social
. Harriett Gilbert is joined by Desiree Akhavan &
@rosiewilby.bsky.social
. Tune in to BBC Radio 4 đ» at 3pm or listen later.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Emma Harding
4 months ago
Female desire, the challenges of monogamy and whether life is over at 45. A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4
@harriettsg.bsky.social
is joined by filmmaker Desiree Akhavan & writer comedian
@rosiewilby.bsky.social
on the programme that is polyamorous for books
#fiction
#books
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Desiree Akhavan and Rosie Wilby
The film-maker and the comedian propose favourite books.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002fv8g
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4 months ago
#Books
A Good Read Today 15:00 BBC Radio 4
@herdyshepherd.bsky.social
⏠picks is THE IRON AGE by Arja Kajermo Kiri Pritchard-McLean picks is A SHORT STAY IN HELL by Steven L Peck
@harriettsg.bsky.social
⏠picks STONE YARD DEVOTIONAL by Charlotte Wood
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, James Rebanks and Kiri Pritchard-McLean at the Hay Festival
We're at the Hay Festival talking books we love.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002fl07
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Emma Harding
4 months ago
A Good Read
@hayfestival.bsky.social
with guests James Rebanks
@herdyshepherd.bsky.social
&
@kiripritchardmc.bsky.social
who join
@harriettsg.bsky.social
for some lively disagreement about novels set in Finland, Australia - and Hell. 3pm Mon 7 July @BBCRadio4
#books
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, James Rebanks and Kiri Pritchard-McLean at the Hay Festival
We're at the Hay Festival talking books we love.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002fl07
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Emma Harding
5 months ago
To mark 100 years of
#MrsDalloway
, Fiona Shaw explores Three Transformations of Virginia
#Woolf
9am Tues @BBCRadio4 with Michael Cunningham, Mark Haddon
@naomialderman.bsky.social
Sally Potter & Alexandra Harris. Readings by Gwendoline Christie. Producer Ellie Richold
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BBC Radio 4 - Artworks, Three Transformations of Virginia Woolf, Inner Lives
Fiona Shaw celebrates 100 years of Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002f8lq
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Emma Harding
5 months ago
A Good Read - drummer Budgie & novelist Juhea Kim join
@harriettsg.bsky.social
to discuss favourite books by
#Sartre
#EvgenyVodolazkin
&
#JennyErpenbeck
set in
#France
medieval
#Russia
&
#Berlin
3pm Mon 30 June @BBCRadio4 Producer Maggie Ayre
#fiction
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Budgie and Juhea Kim
The drummer and author choose books they love.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002f8tl
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5 months ago
#Books
A Good Read Mon 15:00 BBC Radio 4 WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT by Sarah Winman, chosen by Harry Trevaldwyn THE ALCHEMIST by Paulo Coelho, chosen by Xantoné Blacq JAMES by Percival Everett, chosen by
@harriettsg.bsky.social
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www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Xantoné Blacq and Harry Trevaldwyn
Composer Xantoné Blacq and actor Harry Trevaldwyn discuss books with Harriett Gilbert.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dz5m
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5 months ago
#Books
A Good Read Mon 15:00 BBC Radio 4 BIG SWISS by Jen Beagin, chosen by
@nussaibah.bsky.social
A HEART SO WHITE by Javier MarĂas, chosen by Josh Cohen THE END OF EDDY by Edouard Louis, chosen by
@harriettsg.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Josh Cohen and Nussaibah Younis
Two writers join Harriett Gilbert to share favourite books.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dml2
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5 months ago
#Books
N.K Jemisin World Book Club
@harriettsg.bsky.social
puts your questions to the mutli-award winning sci-fi author N.K Jemisin, about her novel 'The City We Became'.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
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BBC World Service - World Book Club, N.K Jemisin
Harriett Gilbert puts your questions to N.K Jemisin
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct74s0
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Yes, weâre back.
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5 months ago
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The Society of Authors
5 months ago
Come work for us. As Grants and Prizes Administrator you will be trained on the administration of a diverse list of prizes, including the SoA Awards, Translation Prizes, and external prizes such as the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Trust Young Writer of the Year Award.
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Rosie Wilby
6 months ago
Great to meet
@harriettsg.bsky.social
and Desiree Akhavan to record a conversation about female sexuality, desire, Miranda Julyâs book All Fours and much more for Radio 4âs A Good Read. Listen out for it on July 14 đ đ» đ§ â€ïž
#books
#sex
#allfours
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Emma Harding
6 months ago
âAnd I thought - yes, that's how it is going to be from now on: The hare of his soul always there, when I least expect it Popping up out of nowhere, sitting still.â Very sad to hear that the great Irish poet Paul Durcan has died. This is quite a poem.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Emma Harding
6 months ago
Down the road someone is practising scales, The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails. Man's heart expands to tinker with his car For this is Sunday morning, Fate's great bazaar - Sunday Morning,
#LouisMacNeice
#poetry
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Gillian Wheelan
7 months ago
On World Book Club this month
@harriettsg.bsky.social
sits down with Nobel Laureate, Abdulrazak Gurnah, to discuss his novel âParadiseâ -
@bbcworldbookclub.bsky.social
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John Rentoul
7 months ago
From the archive, 11 years ago:
#Top10
Last Sentences of Novels
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The top ten: Last sentences of novels
http://independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/the-top-ten-last-sentences-of-novels-9251197.html
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Iâm an idiot. Apparently this is AI created. What is it they say? If it sounds/looks too good to be true, it probably is
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7 months ago
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The young Beatrix Potter with pet rabbit Peter. What an terrific artist she was
7 months ago
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The Bookseller
7 months ago
ICYMI: Penguin Books has announced it will install a series of book boxes, which it is calling "90 Little Book Stops", in communities across the UK.đ
#BookSky
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Penguin to open 90 Little Book Stops across the UK
Penguin Books has announced it will install a series of book boxes, which it is calling "90 Little Book Stops", in communities across the UK.
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/penguin-to-open-90-little-book-stops-across-the-uk?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1743761010
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B&W Thornton of Stratford-upon-Avon
8 months ago
#Books
Michelle De Kretser World Book Club Sat 5 Apr 2025 12:06 Local time BBC World Service
@harriettsg.bsky.social
talks with Michelle De Kretser about her 8th novel, and winner the 2023 Rathbones Folio Fiction Prize 'Scary Monsters'.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
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BBC World Service - World Book Club, Michelle De Kretser
The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct74ry
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Books, books, books: today Douglas Stuart & Sian Eleri discuss books they love on A Good Read. The American West; a Yugoslav prison island; somewhere, some time in the future.... Join us after the 3pm news on BBC Radio 4 or any time thereafter via BBC Sounds
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Douglas Stuart and Sian Eleri
Author Douglas Stuart and radio and TV presenter Sian Eleri on beloved books.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0029hdd
8 months ago
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8 months ago
#Books
A Good Read Today 15:00 BBC Radio 4 EVERYONE BRAVE IS FORGIVEN by Chris Cleave, chosen by Lucy Speed THE HUMAN FACTOR by Graham Greene, chosen by
@harriettsg.bsky.social
253 by Geoff Ryman, chosen by
@sazzymills.bsky.social
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BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Lucy Speed and Sarah Mills
The actor and the comedian share favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00298hn
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Emma Harding
8 months ago
A Good Read - The Archers actor Lucy Speed & comedian
@sazzymills.bsky.social
join
@harriettsg.bsky.social
to discuss favourite novels about the Blitz, spies and the London Underground 3pm Mon 24 March @BBCRadio4 Producer Sally Heaven
#fiction
#books
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Lucy Speed and Sarah Mills
The actor and the comedian share favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00298hn
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Three (almost) entirely different books, each terrific in its own way. Make it a date
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8 months ago
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Libération
8 months ago
Lire 15 minutes par jour ? Oui pour le cerveau, oui surtout pour trouver un refuge loin de lâouragan mondial. Un billet de Sabrina Champenois :
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Lisez quinze minutes par jour, câest bon pour le moral
La rĂ©cente opĂ©ration institutionnelle «11 mars je lis» invite Ă une pratique quotidienne dâun quart dâheure. A raison : les livres sont des refuges, dâautant plus prĂ©cieux en ces temps dâouragan mondial.
https://www.liberation.fr/societe/lisez-quinze-minutes-par-jour-cest-bon-pour-le-moral-20250313_FMPHJOE7X5BM5LPTOFE2MXJR2A/?utm_medium=Social&at_medium=Social+Media&at_campaign=Bluesky&utm_source=Bluesky&at_platform=Bluesky#Echobox=1741890192-1
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Gillian Wheelan
8 months ago
Some original writing from William Boyd for Radio 4 - set on the Isle ofJura, itâs a whodunnit for George Orwell fans.
#BBCRadio4
#thejuraaffair
#orwell
#booksky
- all episodes on BBC Sounds:
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BBC Sounds - The Jura Affair by William Boyd - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of The Jura Affair by William Boyd on BBC Sounds.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m0028jmy?partner=uk.co.bbc
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