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Book Of The Week
''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 In radio, longwave, long wave or long-wave, and commonly abbreviated LW, refers to parts of the radio spectrum with wavelengths longer than what was originally called the medium-wave broadcasting band. The term is historic, dating from the e .... Featured books The following articles list books featured from 2012 to 2018. * List of books featured on ''Book of the Week'' in 2012 * List of books featured on ''Book of the Week'' in 2013 * List of books featured on ''Book of the Week'' in 2014 * List of books featured on ''Book of the Week'' in 2015 * List of books featured on ''Book of the Week'' in 2016 * List ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasting House, London. The station controller is Mohit Bakaya. Broadcasting throughout the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands on FM, LW and DAB, and on BBC Sounds, it can be received in the eastern counties of Ireland, northern France and Northern Europe. It is available on Freeview, Sky, and Virgin Media. Radio 4 currently reaches over 10 million listeners, making it the UK's second most-popular radio station after Radio 2. BBC Radio 4 broadcasts news programmes such as ''Today'' and ''The World at One'', heralded on air by the Greenwich Time Signal pips or the chimes of Big Ben. The pips are only accurate on FM, LW, and MW; there is a delay on digital radio of three to five seconds and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Longwave
In radio, longwave, long wave or long-wave, and commonly abbreviated LW, refers to parts of the radio spectrum with wavelengths longer than what was originally called the medium-wave broadcasting band. The term is historic, dating from the early 20th century, when the radio spectrum was considered to consist of longwave (LW), medium-wave (MW), and short-wave (SW) radio bands. Most modern radio systems and devices use wavelengths which would then have been considered 'ultra-short'. In contemporary usage, the term ''longwave'' is not defined precisely, and its intended meaning varies. It may be used for radio wavelengths longer than 1,000 m i.e. frequencies up to 300 kilohertz (kHz), including the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU's) low frequency (LF, 30–300 kHz) and very low frequency (VLF, 3–30 kHz) bands. Sometimes the upper limit is taken to be higher than 300 kHz, but not above the start of the medium wave broadcast band at 520&nb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Books Featured On Book Of The Week In 2012
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union club Other uses * Angle of list, the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship * List (information), an ordered collection of pieces of information ** List (abstract data type), a method to organize data in computer science * List on Sylt, previously called List, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt * ''List'', an alternative term for ''roll'' in flight dynamics * To ''list'' a building, etc., in the UK it means to designate it a listed building that may not be altered without permission * Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted * ''The Book of Lists'', an American series of books with unusual lists See also * The List (other) * Listing (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Books Featured On Book Of The Week In 2013
This is a list of books which have been featured on BBC Radio 4's ''Book of the Week'' during 2013. January * 07-11 – ''The Examined Life'' by Stephen Grosz, read by Peter Marinker. * 14–18 – '' The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things'' by Paula Byrne, read by Emma Fielding. * 21–25 – '' The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War'' by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, read by Haydn Gwynne. * 28-01 – '' Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan'' by William Dalrymple, read by Tim Pigott-Smith. February * 04-08 – '' Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century'' by Paul Kildea, read by Alex Jennings. * 11–15 – ''Mad Girl's Love Song'' by Andrew Wilson, read by Hayley Atwell. * 25-01 – '' Far From the Tree'' by Andrew Solomon, read by Kerry Shale. March * 04-08 – ''Bedsit Disco Queen'' by Tracey Thorn, read by author. * 11–15 – '' The Last Days of Detroit'' by Mark Binelli, read by John Schwab. * 18–22 – ''The World until Yeste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Books Featured On Book Of The Week In 2014
This is a list of books which have been featured on BBC Radio 4's ''Book of the Week'' during 2014. January * 06-10 – ''The Telling Room'' by Michael Paterniti, read by Will Adamsdale. * 13–17 – '' Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France'' by Nicholas Shakespeare, read by author. * 20–24 – ''Gold: The Race for the World's Most Seductive Metal'' by Matthew Hart, read by author. * 27–31 – '' White Beech: The Rainforest Years'' by Germaine Greer, read by author. February * 03-07 – ''Where Memories Go: Why Dementia Changes Everything'' by Sally Magnusson, read by author. * 10–14 – '' The Almost Nearly Perfect People: The Truth About the Nordic Miracle'' by Michael Booth, read by Gunnar Cauthery. * 17–21 – ''The Last Asylum'' by Barbara Taylor, read by Maggie Steed. * 24–28 – ''Twelve Years a Slave'' by Solomon Northup, read by Rhashan Stone. March * 03-07 – ''The Fun Stuff'' by James Wood, read by Peter Firth. * 10–14 – ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Books Featured On Book Of The Week In 2015
This is a list of books which have been featured on BBC Radio 4's ''Book of the Week'' during 2015. January * ''Different Every Time: The Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt'' – Marcus O'Dair * ''Reaching down the Rabbit Hole'' – Dr Allan H Ropper and Brian D Burrell * ''Epilogue: A Memoir'' – Will Boast * '' Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible'' – Peter Pomerantsev February * ''Young Eliot'' – Robert Crawford * ''Leaving before the Rains Come'' – Alexandra Fuller * ''Shop Girl'' – Mary Portas March * ''Girl in the Dark'' – Anna Lyndsey * ''Birth of a Theorem'' – Cédric Villani * ''The Utopia Experiment'' – Dylan Evans * ''Boundless'' – Kathleen Winter April * ''Landmarks'' – Robert Macfarlane * ''The Story of Alice'' – Robert Douglas-Fairhurst * ''The Shepherd's Life'' – James Rebanks * '' Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot'' – Mark Vanhoenacker * ''Words Without Music'' – Philip Glass May * ''Year of the Fat Knight'' – Antony Sher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Books Featured On Book Of The Week In 2016
This is a list of books which have been featured on BBC Radio 4's ''Book of the Week'' during the year 2016. January * ''Young Orson'' by Patrick McGilligan, read by Jack Klaff * ''The Vanishing Man'' by Laura Cumming, read by Siobhan Redmond * '' The Outrun'' by Amy Liptrot, read by Tracy Wiles * ''Summer Before the Dark'' by Volker Weidermann * ''Stop the Clocks'' by Joan Bakewell February * ''City of Thorns'' by Ben Rawlence * ''Benjamin Franklin in London'' by George Goodwin * ''The Other Paris'' by Lucy Sante, read by Simon Russell Beale * ''The Real Henry James'' by Henry Goodman, read by Olivia Williams March * ''Seamus Heaney's Aeneid Book VI'' by Seamus Heaney, read by Ian McKellen * ''Quicksand'' by Henning Mankell, read by Tim Pigott-Smith * ''But you did not come back'' by Marceline Loridan-Ivens * ''The Onlooker'' by Irène Némirovsky, read by David Suchet * ''This Orient Isle'' by Jerry Brotton, read by Derek Jacobi April * ''Beethoven for a Later Age'' by Edwar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Books Featured On Book Of The Week In 2017
This is a list of books which have been featured on BBC Radio 4's ''Book of the Week'' during 2017. January * ''Labyrinths'' by Catrine Clay, read by Deborah Findlay and Henry Goodman * ''The Reformation'' by Diarmaid MacCulloch * ''The Novel of the Century'' by David Bellos, read by Daniel Weyman * ''Man of Iron'' by Julian Glover, read by Robin Laing February * ''Once Upon a Time in the East'' by Xiaolu Guo, read by Chipo Chung * ''Age of Anger'' by Pankaj Mishra, read by the author * ''Deaths of the Poets'' by Michael Symmons Roberts and Paul Farley, read by the authors * ''Border – Tales from the Edge of Europe'' by Kapka Kassabova, read by Indira Varma March * ''What Happened, Miss Simone?'' by Alan Light, read by Alibe Parsons * ''The Rule of the Land'' by Garrett Carr, read by John Paul Connolly * ''The Word Detective'' by John Simpson, read by Nigel Anthony * ''Fathers and Sons'' by Howard Cunnell, read by James Lailey * ''Be Like the Fox'' by Erica Benner, read by To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Books Featured On Book Of The Week In 2018
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union club Other uses * Angle of list, the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship * List (information), an ordered collection of pieces of information ** List (abstract data type), a method to organize data in computer science * List on Sylt, previously called List, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt * ''List'', an alternative term for ''roll'' in flight dynamics * To ''list'' a building, etc., in the UK it means to designate it a listed building that may not be altered without permission * Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted * ''The Book of Lists'', an American series of books with unusual lists See also * The List (other) * Listing (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
