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Back to Search12 Days of Christmas - The Thin Red Line
Season 1 Episode 421
James Holland reads a chapter from one of his favourite books, The Thin Red Line. Written by James Jones, the book draws upon his own experience at t…
4 years, 2 months ago
12 Days of Christmas - Warriors for the Working Day
Season 1 Episode 420
Al reads a chapter from Warriors for the Working Day. The novel is based on events from June 1944, during the Battle of Normandy, to the invasion of …
4 years, 2 months ago
12 Days of Christmas - The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Season 1 Episode 419
James Holland reads from Richard Flannagan's "The Narrow Road to the Deep North", a novel that tells the story of a far east prisoner of war during t…
4 years, 2 months ago
12 Days of Christmas - Life and Fate
Season 1 Episode 418
Al Murray reads chapters 1 through 6 from Life and Fate written by Vasily Grossman, an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single famil…
4 years, 2 months ago
12 Days of Christmas - Suite Francaise
Season 1 Episode 417
James Holland reads a chapter from Suite Francaise, the title of a planned sequence of five novels by Irène Némirovsky, a French writer of Ukrainian-…
4 years, 2 months ago
12 Days of Christmas - Sword of Honour
Season 1 Episode 416
Al Murray reads a chapter from Sword of Honour written by Evelyn Waugh.
A Goalhanger Films production
Produced by Vasco Andrade
Exec Producer: Tony Past…
4 years, 2 months ago
12 Days of Christmas - The World at Night
Season 1 Episode 415
James Holland reads a chapter from Alan Furst's The World at Night. The novel follows the upper-class life of film producer Jean Casson during the Ge…
4 years, 2 months ago
12 Days of Christmas - The Cruel Sea
Season 1 Episode 414
Al Murray read a chapter from The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat. This book tells the story of the lives of a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting i…
4 years, 2 months ago
12 Days of Christmas - The Burning Blue
Season 1 Episode 413
James Holland reads a chapter from one of his own books, The Burning Blue. This book tells the story of a small group of RAF fighter pilots who first…
4 years, 2 months ago
12 Days of Christmas - Bomber
Season 1 Episode 412
Al Murray reads a chapter from Bomber written by Len Deighton. Bomber is a fictionalised account of "the events relating to the last flight of an RAF…
4 years, 2 months ago