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  3. Book of the Week

Book of the Week

Serialised book readings, featuring works of non-fiction, biography, autobiography, travel, diaries, essays, humour and history

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    Family Britain A Pretty Mess

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    5/5. An increasingly affluent and confident Britain is rocked by the Suez crisis.

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    1. Family Britain Brisk Buying and Selling

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      Available since Thursday with 4 days left.

      4/5. A new era of affluence is fuelled by an advertising boom and the arrival of commercial TV.

    2. Family Britain God Save Our Queen

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      3/5. While Britain is spellbound by the Coronation, another royal soap opera is about to unfold

    3. Family Britain Family Favourites

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      Available since Tuesday with 2 days left.

      2/5. The core values of family and society begin to fray at the edges.

    4. Family Britain All Madly Educative

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      Available since Monday with 23 hours left.

      1/5. The Festival of Britain heralds the beginning of the end of austerity.

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Tomorrow, 09:45 on Radio 4 FM

1/5. Featuring an inventor who was strangled by his own invention. Read by Toby Longworth.

19 more programmes coming up in the next 7 days.

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