Books on BBC Radio 4 › December 2002
Every book featured on BBC Radio 4's book strands during December 2002 — Book of the Week, Book at Bedtime, Bookclub, A Good Read and other slots where the title was named on air. We pick these up each morning over the school run and add them to the list below.
Last updated: August 15th 2026 · 16 books listed for December 2002.
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Burmese Days by George Orwell
A Good Read · broadcast December 31st
ISBN: 978-0141185378
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
A Good Read · broadcast December 31st
ISBN: 978-0241968567
Once in a House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth
A Good Read · broadcast December 31st
ISBN: 978-0330351911
A Life of Contrasts: The Autobiography of Diana Mosley by Diana Mosley
A Good Read · broadcast December 24th
ISBN: 978-1903933206
Kapillan of Malta by Nicholas Monsarrat
A Good Read · broadcast December 24th
Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
A Good Read · broadcast December 24th
ISBN: 978-1844082483
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
A Good Read · broadcast December 17th
ISBN: 978-0141182537
Quarantine by Jim Crace
A Good Read · broadcast December 17th
ISBN: 978-0374239626
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
A Good Read · broadcast December 17th
ISBN: 978-0701123390
As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann
A Good Read · broadcast December 10th
ISBN: 978-0002261944
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
A Good Read · broadcast December 10th
ISBN: 978-0007232444
The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay
A Good Read · broadcast December 10th
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
A Good Read · broadcast December 3rd
ISBN: 978-0099286431
Greenmantle by John Buchan
A Good Read · broadcast December 3rd
ISBN: 978-1846971976
Losing Nelson by Barry Unsworth
A Good Read · broadcast December 3rd
ISBN: 978-0385486521
Polo by Jilly Cooper
Bookclub · broadcast December 1st
ISBN: 978-0593018361