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Book Of The Week

Four Hundred Thirteen episodes. First broadcast from 20080821 to 20080906.

Series	First Broadcast	Description
BOTW
	20080828	Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History Adam Nicolson reads from his account of Sissinghurst, one of Britain's most celebrated gardens, purchased by his grandparents Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson in 1932. 3/5. Dealing with the Trust Adam's vision for the future of his family home needs National Trust backing and support from the people who work at Sissinghurst.
	20080828	Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History Adam Nicolson reads from his account of Sissinghurst, one of Britain's most celebrated gardens, purchased by his grandparents Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson in 1932. 4/5. Setbacks and Struggles Adam's ambitious plans for the return of Sissinghurst to a productive farm encounter suspicion and opposition.
BOTW	20080821	Corvus: A Life with Birds Maureen Beattie reads from Esther Woolfson's story of her life with birds. 3/5. Esther's daughter arrives back from guide camp with a fledgling rook that has fallen from its nest high in the trees. Chicken takes her place in the household.
BOTW	20080825	Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History Adam Nicolson reads from his account of Sissinghurst, one of Britain's most celebrated gardens, purchased by his grandparents Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson in 1932. 1/5. Childhood Adam recalls his early years, planting his first tree and smoking his first cigarette.
BOTW	20080826	Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History Adam Nicolson reads from his account of Sissinghurst, one of Britain's most celebrated gardens, purchased by his grandparents Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson in 1932. 2/5. Family The Nicolson family's life at Sissinghurst may have seemed idyllic from the outside, but inside lay a deep unhappiness.
BOTW	20080827	Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History Adam Nicolson reads from his account of Sissinghurst, one of Britain's most celebrated gardens, purchased by his grandparents Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson in 1932. 2/5. Family The Nicolson family's life at Sissinghurst may have seemed idyllic from the outside, but inside lay a deep unhappiness.
BOTW	20080827	Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History Adam Nicolson reads from his account of Sissinghurst, one of Britain's most celebrated gardens, purchased by his grandparents Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson in 1932. 3/5. Dealing with the Trust Adam's vision for the future of his family home needs National Trust backing and support from the people who work at Sissinghurst.
BOTW	20080829	FIRSTSissinghurst: An Unfinished History Adam Nicolson reads from his account of Sissinghurst, one of Britain's most celebrated gardens, purchased by his grandparents Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson in 1932. 5/5. The Way Forward Adam must now convince the people who work at Sissinghurst to back his plans to return the estate to the working landscape he knew as a boy.
BOTW	20080830	Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History Adam Nicolson reads from his account of Sissinghurst, one of Britain's most celebrated gardens, purchased by his grandparents Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson in 1932. 5/5. The Way Forward Adam must now convince the people who work at Sissinghurst to back his plans to return the estate to the working landscape he knew as a boy.
BOTW	20080901	Ghost Train to the Eastern Star Stuart Milligan reads from Paul Theroux's account of a journey in which he retraces his own steps and follows in the tracks of his classic 1973 travel book The Great Railway Bazaar. 1/5. Paul sets out from a rain-soaked London by Eurostar on his journey from Europe to East Asia. He stops in Istanbul, a city of extraordinary mosques and churches, but also with a seedier side. From Turkey, he travels on to the Georgian border.
BOTW	20080902	Ghost Train to the Eastern Star Stuart Milligan reads from Paul Theroux's account of a journey in which he retraces his own steps and follows in the tracks of his classic 1973 travel book The Great Railway Bazaar. 1/5. Paul sets out from a rain-soaked London by Eurostar on his journey from Europe to East Asia. He stops in Istanbul, a city of extraordinary mosques and churches, but also with a seedier side. From Turkey, he travels on to the Georgian border.
BOTW	20080902	Ghost Train to the Eastern Star Stuart Milligan reads from Paul Theroux's account of a journey in which he retraces his own steps and follows in the tracks of his classic 1973 travel book The Great Railway Bazaar 2/5. From Georgia, Paul boards a train bound for Azerbaijan and alights in boomtown Baku, just in time for a national holiday to celebrate the first day of spring. Moving on to Turkmenistan, he witnesses at first hand the legacy of Saparmyrat Niyasov's repressive and eccentric dictatorship.
BOTW	20080903	Ghost Train to the Eastern Star Stuart Milligan reads from Paul Theroux's account of a journey in which he retraces his own steps and follows in the tracks of his classic 1973 travel book The Great Railway Bazaar 2/5. From Georgia, Paul boards a train bound for Azerbaijan and alights in boomtown Baku, just in time for a national holiday to celebrate the first day of spring. Moving on to Turkmenistan, he witnesses at first hand the legacy of Saparmyrat Niyasov's repressive and eccentric dictatorship.
BOTW	20080903	Ghost Train to the Eastern Star Stuart Milligan reads from Paul Theroux's account of a journey in which he retraces his own steps and follows in the tracks of his classic 1973 travel book The Great Railway Bazaar. 3/5. Paul travels from Amritsar in northern India to idyllic Sri Lanka, a land still recovering from the catastrophic 2004 tsunami.
BOTW	20080904	Ghost Train to the Eastern Star Stuart Milligan reads from Paul Theroux's account of a journey in which he retraces his own steps and follows in the tracks of his classic 1973 travel book The Great Railway Bazaar. 3/5. Paul travels from Amritsar in northern India to idyllic Sri Lanka, a land still recovering from the catastrophic 2004 tsunami.
BOTW	20080904	Ghost Train to the Eastern Star Stuart Milligan reads from Paul Theroux's account of a journey in which he retraces his own steps and follows in the tracks of his classic 1973 travel book The Great Railway Bazaar. 4/5. Paul reacquaints himself with a much-changed Burma and its crumbling cities. His initial reaction to the sad and skeletal city that used to be Rangoon is disbelief. But his time in Burma is not entirely gloomy, and his spirits are lifted by an unexpected encounter with his past.
BOTW	20080905	Ghost Train to the Eastern Star Stuart Milligan reads from Paul Theroux's account of a journey in which he retraces his own steps and follows in the tracks of his classic 1973 travel book The Great Railway Bazaar. 4/5. Paul reacquaints himself with a much-changed Burma and its crumbling cities. His initial reaction to the sad and skeletal city that used to be Rangoon is disbelief. But his time in Burma is not entirely gloomy, and his spirits are lifted by an unexpected encounter with his past.
BOTW	20080905	Ghost Train to the Eastern Star Stuart Milligan reads from Paul Theroux's account of a journey in which he retraces his own steps and follows in the tracks of his classic 1973 travel book The Great Railway Bazaar. 5/5. Paul sets out from Vladivostock on the Trans-Siberian railway. He alights from the train in Perm, a Siberian city with a recent history of rocket manufacture, slave labour and arbitrary incarceration. Paul explores the grim legacy of Perm 36, one of the most notorious Gulag camps.
BOTW	20080906	Ghost Train to the Eastern Star Stuart Milligan reads from Paul Theroux's account of a journey in which he retraces his own steps and follows in the tracks of his classic 1973 travel book The Great Railway Bazaar. 5/5. Paul sets out from Vladivostock on the Trans-Siberian railway. He alights from the train in Perm, a Siberian city with a recent history of rocket manufacture, slave labour and arbitrary incarceration. Paul explores the grim legacy of Perm 36, one of the most notorious Gulag camps.