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Monday 28 - Sunday 4 December 2005
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BOOK OF THE WEEK - 9.45am & 12.30am - Monday to Friday
The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt. The author reads extracts from his new book in which he explores the lives of the inhabitants of that most magical of cities, Venice.
BOOK AT BEDTIME - 10.45pm - Monday to Friday
Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. Anthology of fairy tales from around the world. Read by Eileen McCallum
CLASSIC SERIAL - 3.00pm - Sunday 4 December
The Glittering Prizes by Frederick Raphael
Part 3 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 Benedict Cumberbatch, Serena Evans, Robert Bathurst, Alison Pettit.
BOOKCLUB - 4.00pm - Sunday 4 December
American writer Joyce Carol Oates, one of the most adventurous and prolific writers working today, joins readers to discuss We Were the Mulvaneys , the story of the break-up of a contented family after the random disaster of a rape. James Naughtie presents.
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Books on BBC 7 |
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LITTLE TOE READINGS - 7am & 3pm - Daily
Monday to Friday
Wiggly Park written by Keith Faulkner, read by Andrew Sachs
Flat Stanley : Stanley, Flat Again written by Jeff Brown, read by Andrew Dunn
Charm School written by Anne Fine, read by Natalie Cassidy
Utterly Me, Clarice Bean written by Lauren Child, read by Elisha Mansuroglo
Phantom Tollbooth written by Norman Juster, read by James Rawlings
The Ordinary Princess written by M M Kaye, read by Susanna Northern
The Dribblesome Teapots: The Unsuitable suits written by Norman Hunter read by Anton Rogers
Saturday and Sunday
The Princess and the Pea & Thumbelina written by Hans Christian Anderson
The Twitches: Twitches on Horriday written by Roy Apps, read by Nigel Greaves
St Berks written and dramatised by Dave Washer & Dickie Megson. Starring Elliott Nicholls, Rosie Wilkinson, Tom George, James Rawlings, Sean Connolly
BIG TOE READINGS - 4pm - Daily
Smile by Geraldine McCaughrean, read by Richard Morant
Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot, read by Teresa Gallagher
Daisy Chain War by Joan O'Neill, read by Marcella Riordan
St Berks (2 hour Sunday Story) written & dramatised by Dave Washer & Dickie Megson. Starring Elliott Nicholls, Rosie Wilkinson, Tom George, James Rawlings, Sean Connolly
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