Book of the Week

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Book of the Week
GenreNon-fiction Literature
Running time15 mins
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Language(s) English
Home station BBC Radio 4
Narrated byVarious readers
Website BBC website page

Book of the Week is a BBC Radio 4 series that is broadcast daily on week days. Each week, extracts from the selected book, usually a non-fiction work, are read over five episodes; each fifteen-minute episode is broadcast in the morning (9:45am) and repeated overnight (12:30am). The Act of Worship replaces the morning broadcast in the schedule on longwave.

The following articles list books featured from 2012 to 2018.

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