Selection of BBC World Service Programmes

01:00 - 05:20

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  1. BBC Radio 4
  2. Programmes
  3. Book of the Week
  4. Series

Series for Book of the Week

  1. 20 Letters to a Friend
  2. A Card from Angela Carter
  3. A Gambling Man - Charles II and The Restoration
  4. A Late Dinner
  5. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
  6. A Mountain of Crumbs
  7. A Shed of One's Own: Midlife without the Crisis
  8. A Strange Eventful History
  9. A View from the Foothills
  10. Agent Zigzag
  11. All Made Up
  12. An Utterly Impartial History of Britain
  13. And Did Those Feet - Walking Through 200 Years of British and Irish History
  14. Arguably
  15. Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters
  16. Arthur Miller
  17. At Large and at Small: Confessions of a Literary Hedonist
  18. Autobiography of Mark Twain
  19. Babysitting George
  20. Barefaced Lies and Boogie-Woogie Boasts
  21. Batting on the Bosphorus
  22. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
  23. Bearded Tit
  24. Besieged: Life Under Fire in a Sarajevo Street
  25. Bird Cloud
  26. Blood Knots
  27. Blue Sky July
  28. Bluebird
  29. Bluestockings
  30. Book of the Week: Escape from Camp 14
  31. Books to Change Your Life By
  32. Born Brilliant: The Life of Kenneth Williams
  33. Born Liars: Why We Can't Live Without Deceit
  34. Born on a Blue Day
  35. Bred of Heaven
  36. Burying The Bones
  37. Casanova
  38. Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen
  39. Chagall
  40. Charles Dickens - A Life
  41. Chasing the Sun
  42. Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren
  43. Chopin: Prince of the Romantics
  44. Clean
  45. Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt
  46. Clever Girl: A Sentimental Education
  47. Climbing the Bookshelves
  48. Coconut Chaos
  49. Coda
  50. Cold Cream
  51. Constable in Love
  52. Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde
  53. Cooke's Elections
  54. Coral: A Pessimist in Paradise
  55. Corvus: A Life with Birds
  56. Crap at the Environment
  57. Dear Granny Smith
  58. Dear Mr Bigelow
  59. Decline and Fall: Diaries 2005-2010
  60. Defending the Guilty
  61. Did You Really Shoot the Television?
  62. Don't Sleep There Are Snakes
  63. Double Cross
  64. Edgelands
  65. Edward Burra: Twentieth-Century Eye
  66. El Narco
  67. Elizabeth's Women
  68. Europe in the Looking Glass
  69. Explorers of the Nile
  70. Family Britain
  71. Femme Fatale: A Biography of Mata Hari
  72. Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be: The Lionel Bart Story
  73. Finishing the Hat
  74. Fire Season
  75. Florence Nightingale - The Woman and Her Legend
  76. For All the Tea in China
  77. From Harvey River
  78. Get Her Off The Pitch!
  79. Getting Rich First - Life in China
  80. Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
  81. Ghosts by Daylight
  82. God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
  83. Granta's Britain
  84. Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire
  85. Halfway to Hollywood
  86. Heart of Darfur
  87. Hedge Britannia
  88. Hellfire and Herring
  89. Hellhound On His Trail
  90. Hood Rat
  91. How to Get Things Really Flat
  92. I Found my Horn
  93. In Europe: Travels Through the 20th Century
  94. In the Valley of Mist
  95. Isabella de' Medici
  96. James Joyce - A Biography
  97. Jane's Fame
  98. Just Kids
  99. Just My Type
  100. Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and his Scandalous Duchess
  101. Ken Campbell: The Great Caper
  102. Lady Worsley's Whim
  103. Land's Edge - A Coastal Memoir
  104. Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue
  105. Leni
  106. Let Not the Waves of the Sea
  107. Letters to Monica
  108. Londoners
  109. Looking for Transwonderland
  110. Lost in Shangri-La: Escape from a Hidden World - A True Story
  111. Making Money
  112. Malcolm X - A Life of Reinvention
  113. Manhood for Amateurs
  114. Medical London - City of Diseases, City of Cures
  115. Midnight in Peking
  116. Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949
  117. Miracles of Life
  118. More than a Game
  119. Muriel Spark - The Biography
  120. Must You Go?
  121. My Father's Country
  122. My Father's Places
  123. My Judy Garland Life
  124. My Name is Daphne Fairfax
  125. My Week with Marilyn
  126. Nella Last's Peace
  127. Newton And The Counterfeiter
  128. No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Story
  129. Not One of Us
  130. Nothing to Be Frightened Of
  131. Now All Roads Lead to France
  132. One Day I Will Write about This Place
  133. One on One
  134. Ox Travels
  135. Paper Houses
  136. Parisians
  137. Paw Tracks in the Moonlight
  138. Peeling the Onion
  139. Periodic Tales
  140. Proust's Overcoat
  141. Queuing for Beginners
  142. Radio Head
  143. Red Dust Road
  144. Red Moon Rising
  145. Rudolf Nureyev: The Life
  146. Sacre Cordon Bleu: What the French Know About Cooking
  147. Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation
  148. Searching for Schindler: A Memoir
  149. Second Lives: A Journey Through Virtual Worlds
  150. Selective Memory
  151. Shopping, Seduction and Mr Selfridge
  152. Sightlines
  153. Singled Out
  154. Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History
  155. Sisters of Sinai
  156. Something Fierce
  157. Speaking for Myself
  158. Stalin's Nemesis
  159. Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
  160. State of the Union
  161. Stirred But Not Shaken: The Autobiography
  162. Stop What You're Doing and Read This
  163. Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl
  164. Strands
  165. Stranger in the Mirror
  166. Swindled: From Poisoned Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee
  167. Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875 - 1945
  168. Tequila Oil
  169. That's Another Story
  170. The 33
  171. The 9/11 Letters
  172. The Accidental Billionaires
  173. The Age of Wonder
  174. The Atlantic Ocean
  175. The Black Death
  176. The Blaze Of Obscurity
  177. The Blue Hour
  178. The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of Obsession
  179. The Castrato and His Wife
  180. The Death of Sigmund Freud
  181. The Decisive Moment
  182. The Defence of the Realm
  183. The Etymologicon
  184. The Fry Chronicles
  185. The Gaol
  186. The Great Animal Orchestra
  187. The Hair of the Dog and Other Scientific Surprises
  188. The Hare with Amber Eyes
  189. The Heart of the Dales
  190. The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life
  191. The House in France
  192. The Importance of Music for Girls
  193. The Invention of Murder
  194. The Junior Officer's Reading Club
  195. The King's Glass
  196. The Last Champion - The Life of Fred Perry
  197. The Last Matchmaker
  198. The Last Resort
  199. The Last Supper
  200. The Lemon Tree
  201. The Locust and the Bird
  202. The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street
  203. The Lost Mona Lisa
  204. The Magnetic North
  205. The Making of Mr Hai's Daughter
  206. The Man within My Head
  207. The Morville Hours
  208. The Music Room
  209. The Old Boys' Network
  210. The Pain and the Privilege
  211. The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi
  212. The Popes
  213. The Prince
  214. The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I
  215. The Rest is Noise - Listening to the 20th Century
  216. The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham
  217. The Settler's Cookbook
  218. The Sky Is Always There
  219. The Sun Hasn't Fallen from the Sky
  220. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
  221. The Tall Man
  222. The Tent, the Bucket and Me
  223. The Timewaster Diaries
  224. The Train in the Night: A Story of Music and Loss
  225. The Uke of Wallington
  226. The Warmth of the Heart Prevents Your Body from Rusting
  227. The West End Front
  228. The Wild Places
  229. The Winter of Our Disconnect
  230. The Woman Who Shot Mussolini
  231. Theatre Writings
  232. Them and Us
  233. Then They Came for Me
  234. This Is Not About Me
  235. Three Cups of Tea
  236. To a Mountain in Tibet
  237. To Miss With Love
  238. Tokyo Vice
  239. Travels on the Dance Floor
  240. Trust me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor
  241. Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood
  242. Utopian Dreams
  243. Venetian Navigators - The Voyages of the Zen Brothers to the Far North
  244. Venus of Empire - The Life of Pauline Bonaparte
  245. Vesuvius: The Most Famous Volcano in the World
  246. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters
  247. Waiting for Daisy: The True Story of One Couple's Quest to Have a Baby
  248. Walking Home
  249. We are a Muslim, Please
  250. What I Don't Know About Animals
  251. What the Grown-Ups Were Doing
  252. What Would Barbra Do?
  253. When Skateboards Will Be Free
  254. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
  255. Wife in the North
  256. Wildwood: A Journey through Trees
  257. Wilkie Collins
  258. William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies
  259. Writing Russia
  260. You Cannot Live As I Have Done And Not End Up Like This
  261. You'll Win Nothing with Kids
  262. You're Coming With Me Lad

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