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ON NOW : Today
20/05/2013

Today Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.

Book of the Week Episode guide

  1. The North (and Almost Everything in It)

    Rock journalist Paul Morley on the north, and what it means to be a northerner

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  2. Falling Upwards

    By Richard Holmes. Stories of the first balloon aeronauts. Read by Rory Kinnear

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  3. Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832

    Antonia Fraser's account of a period of dramatic political change

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  4. A Sting in the Tale

    Dave Goulson details the mysterious ways of the bumblebee. Read by Tim McInnerny

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  5. Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography

    Charles Moore's portrait of the former British prime minster. Read by Nicholas Farrell

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  6. Letters from Italy

    Leading Italian figures write about Italy today, the dangers and the possibilities

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  7. She Left Me the Gun

    By Emma Brockes. Warm and moving memoir in which the author uncovers dark family secrets

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  8. Mom and Me and Mom

    Maya Angelou's account of her relationship with her mother, Vivian Baxter

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  9. The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev

    Simon Morrison's moving biography about the wife of composer Serge Prokofiev

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  10. Comandante

    Rory Carroll's biography of Hugo Chavez, the late president of Venezuela

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  11. The World until Yesterday

    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond asks what can traditional societies teach us

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  12. The Last Days of Detroit

    Mark Binelli's portrait of a city in post-industrial decline

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  13. Bedsit Disco Queen

    Singer Tracey Thorn of Everything But the Girl charts her personal and musical journey

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  14. Far From the Tree

    Stories of families who learn to deal with their exceptional children, by Andrew Solomon

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  15. Mad Girl's Love Song

    Andrew Wilson's book on the early life of writer Sylvia Plath, abridged by Miranda Davies

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  16. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century

    Biography of the English composer by Paul Kildea

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  17. Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan

    William Dalrymple analyses the first Afghan war, 1839-1842. Read by Tim Pigott-Smith

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  18. The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War

    Lucy Hughes-Hallett charts the life of Italian politician and poet Gabriele D'Annunzio

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  19. The Real Jane Austen

    Paula Byrne explores the forces that shaped the interior life of the popular novelist

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  20. The Examined Life

    By Stephen Grosz. Stories from the analyst's consulting room

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  21. Wild

    Cheryl Strayed's account of hiking 1,100 miles alone through America's rugged west

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  22. Three Houses

    Childhood memoir of author Angela Thirkell. Read by Sian Thomas

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  23. Shakespeare's Local - Six Centuries of History Seen through One Extraordinary Pub

    By Pete Brown. A history of pubs as seen through the story of one London inn, the George

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  24. Looking for Mrs Livingstone

    Julie Davidson searches Southern Africa for traces of explorer David Livingstone's wife

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  25. The Horologicon

    By Mark Forsyth. Hidden delights from the English language to suit all hours of the day

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  26. The Black Count

    By Tom Reiss. Biography of the father of French novelist Alexandre Dumas

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  27. Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure

    Biography by Artemis Cooper charting the life of the celebrated travel writer and war hero

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  28. Former People

    Douglas Smith's account of the fate of the Russian aristocracy in the Bolshevik Revolution

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  29. On Wheels

    Michael Holroyd traces his and his biographical subjects' relationships with cars.

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  30. Tombstone

    Yang Jishen's book on Mao's Great Famine, during which 36 million Chinese starved to death

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