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  1. Book at Bedtime The Glass Room, Episode 2

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    2/10. Viktor has commissioned modernist architect Rainer von Abt to design his family home.

  2. Afternoon Reading The Diaries of Edith Appleton, Episode 1

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    1/3. It is 1915 and Edie is based at Casualty Clearing Station Number 3 near Ypres.

  3. Book of the Week The Magnetic North, Alaska and Canada

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    2/5. Sara Wheeler finds traces of American entrepreneurial drive in the wide spaces of Alaska.

  4. Book at Bedtime The Glass Room, Episode 1

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    1/10. It is the early 1930s and Victor and Liesel Landauer will soon return from their honeymoon

  5. Book of the Week The Magnetic North, The Arctic Defined

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    1/5. Sara Wheeler begins her travels in the semi-inhabited fringes of Asian Russia.

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