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Serialised book readings, featuring works from various genres

Serialised book readings, featuring works of non-fiction, biography, autobiography, travel, diaries, essays, humour and history

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Book of the Week: Love of Country

Doon Mackichan

Madeleine Bunting

Anna Magnusson

Eilidh McCreadie

Book of the Week: Love of Country: Episode 1: Jura

Love of Country

Episode 1

Episode 1: Jura

Jura

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Love of Country, Jura

Feeling the pull of the north west, a journalist travels to the Hebridean island of Jura.

Feeling the pull of the north west, a journalist makes a series of journeys to the Hebrides beginning with Jura, famous refuge of George Orwell. Read by Doon Mackichan.

Journalist Madeleine Bunting explores the history and landscapes of the Hebrides and demonstrates how this chain of islands in the north west has shaped both Scotland and Britain. Her first journey takes her to Jura, the remote wilderness where George Orwell wrote 1984.

Read by Doon Mackichan
Producer: Eilidh McCreadie.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Journalist Madeleine Bunting explores the history and landscapes of the Hebrides.

Journalist Madeleine Bunting explores the history and landscapes of the Hebrides and demonstrates how these islands have shaped Britain.

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