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From 2000, Ep 1 (of 5) 📻 “High Hopes by Ronnie Corbett” - “Early Years”
Ronnie Corbett reads his 2000 autobiography📖
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From 2017, Ep 1 (of 10) 📻 “The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4” - “Meet Adrian”
Sue Townsend's 1982 novel📖 abridged by Sara Davies & read by Harry McEntire.
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"Within the shelter of black yews
The owls in ranks are ranged apart
Like foreign gods, whose eyeballs dart
Red fire. They meditate and muse."
- Baudelaire, 'The Owls' (trans. Roy Campbell)
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A Good Read
More favourite books with Harriett Gilbert and guests Patrick Grant and Mary-Ann Ochota.
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2:45pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4
Opening Lines
Flight - Episode Two
Flight by Walter White concerns the complex issue of ‘passing’. John Yorke investigates and asks if this is why the book has largely been forgotten.
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Image by Edmund Leighton
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4pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra
From 2004, Ep 4 (of 5) of 📻 “THE COMA” - “Darkness”
Alex Garland’s 2004 surreal fantasy novel📖 read by Tom Goodman-Hill
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Take Four Books, Yann Martel
Presented by James Crawford, Take Four Books, speaks to Canadian writer & former Booker Prize winner Yann Martel about his new novel, 📖 “Son of Nobody”, & its three influences.
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Weird picture of the day: an illustration by Beresford Egan for 'Fleurs du Mal' by Baudelaire.
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📖 “How England Began” by Nicholas J Higham
The long, violent making of England – with invading boats & out-of-touch elites
Nicholas J Higham dismantles the myth of sudden Saxon conquest, revealing a slower, more contested beginning
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📖 “Permanence” by Sophie Mackintosh review – high-concept adultery fable
Unfaithful lovers escape to an uncanny alternate world, in this compelling allegory for infidelity and desire
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12:30pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra
From 2009, Omnibus of 📻 “THE MUSIC ROOM”
William Fiennes' 1990 memoir📖 of his magical childhood in a moated castle in which he grew up with his severely epileptic brother
Abridged by Viv Beeby & read by Dan Stevens
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A duel, one of many amusing vignettes inserted into his 1840 journal by the 15-year-old Richard Doyle.
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“But what is the black spot, captain?”
📖”Treasure Island” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883
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🎥 “Treasure Island”, 1972
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🎨 N.C. Wyeth’s 1911 illustration, "The Pirates Prepare the Black Spot”
“Seaward, ho! Hang the treasure! It’s the glory of the sea that has turned my head.”
📖”Treasure Island” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883
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🎥 “Treasure Island”, 1972
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From 2004 #Restoration #Comedy #Drama📻 “The Provok'd Wife” directed by Pauline Harris
John Vanbrugh’s 1697 play🎭 adapted by Jim Poyser
🌟 Julian Rhind-Tutt, Tom Mannion, Dave Hill, Saskia Reeves, Sarah Smart, Josie Lawrence, Tonia Chauvet
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“There is no greater teacher than nature herself.”
📖“The Riddle of The Sands” ~ Erskine Childers, 1903
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🎥“The Riddle of The Sands”, 1979
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“I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.”
📖 “On the Beach” ~ Nevil Shute, 1957
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📻 “On the Beach”, Ep 2 of 2, 2008
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“Primrose, first-born child of Ver,
Merry spring-time’s harbinger.“
#Shakespeare The Two Noble Kinsmen
Ver is an old name for Spring
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From 2009, Ep 5 (of 5) 📻 “ROGUE JUSTICE” - “Vengeance”
Geoffrey Household's 1982 sequel to his 1939 novel📖 “Rogue Male”
Abridged by Patricia Hannah & read by Michael Jayston
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