Serialised book readings, featuring works of non-fiction, biography, autobiography, travel, diaries, essays, humour and history
- Programmes:
- on BBC iPlayer (6)
- coming up (20)
10:00 - 11:15
The week's events in Ambridge.
- BBC Radio 4
- Programmes
- Book of the Week
Book of the Week
Available now on BBC iPlayer
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Listen to the latest programme
Family Britain A Pretty Mess
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Available since Friday with 6 days left.
5/5. An increasingly affluent and confident Britain is rocked by the Suez crisis.
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Also available
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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.
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Family Britain God Save Our Queen
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Available since Wednesday with 4 days left.
3/5. While Britain is spellbound by the Coronation, another royal soap opera is about to unfold
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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.
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Family Britain All Madly Educative
Listen now (15 minutes)
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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Coming up
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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