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Books on Radio 4 and BBC7 this week
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Books on Radio 4 and BBC 7

Books on Radio 4

Every week BBC Radio offers many different programmes that talk about books, serialise books, interview authors or review books. This page lists some of the main offerings including books for children on Go4it, Big Toe and Little Toe on BBC7

Books on Radio 4 and BBC 7 next week.

Monday 28 November - Sunday 4 December 2005

BOOK OF THE WEEK - 9.45am & 12.30am - Monday to Friday
Bamboo by William Boyd
A selection of essays read by Anton Lesser.

BOOK AT BEDTIME
- 10.45pm - Monday to Friday
Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster Read by Garrick Hagon.
More neighborhood tales in the life of Nathan and Tom.

CLASSIC SERIAL
- 3.00pm - Sunday 20 November
The Glittering Prizes by Frederick Raphael
Part 1 of a four-part adaptation by Frederic Raphael of his own 1977 masterwork, following the fortunes of a group of young people who were at Cambridge University together in the early 1950s. Their individual stories reflect the way British society changed over a quarter of a century. With Jamie Glover, Jemma Redgrave, Robert Bathurst, Alison Pettit.

OPEN BOOK
- 4.00pm - Sunday 20 November
Kate Mosse talks to Jeremy Mercer about his memoir of living and working in a Parisian bookshop, plus a visit to Canterbury Cathedral to explore the history of the rose window.

GO4IT - 7.15pm - Sunday 20 November
The Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society by Adeline Yen Mah.

Books on BBC 7

LITTLE TOE READINGS - 7am & 3pm - Daily

Monday to Friday 

Wiggly Park written by Keith Faulkner, read by Andrew Sachs
Utterly Me, Clarice Bean written by Lauren Child, read by Elisha Mansuroglo
Phantom Tollbooth written by Norman Juster, read by James Rawlings
Matilda written by Roald Dahl, read by Emma Chambers
Charlotte Sometimes written by Penelope Farmer, read by Deborah Findlay

Saturday & Sunday

The Adventures of PG Woodlouse written and read by Felicity Duncan & Jon Osbaldeston
The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skene Catling, read by Philip Hawthorne
The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier, dramatised

BIG TOE READINGS - 4pm - Daily
Interactive Live Drama: Arthur Storey and the Department of Historical Correction, by Philip Ardagh
Dakota of the White Flats written by Philip Ridley, read by Georgia Taylor
Slaves of the Mastery written by William Nicholson, read by Kevin Whately
Pig Scrolls written by Paul Shipton, read by Toby Jones 

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