''Book of the Week'' is a
BBC Radio 4
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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.
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List of books featured on ''Book of the Week'' in 2012
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List of books featured on ''Book of the Week'' in 2013
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List of books featured on ''Book of the Week'' in 2014
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List of books featured on ''Book of the Week'' in 2015
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List of books featured on ''Book of the Week'' in 2016
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List of books featured on ''Book of the Week'' in 2017
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List of books featured on ''Book of the Week'' in 2018
References
BBC ''Book of the week'' website page
BBC Radio 4 programmes
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