Books on BBC Radio 4 › March 2020
Every book featured on BBC Radio 4's book strands during March 2020 — 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 · 21 books listed for March 2020.
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Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town, by Lamorna Ash
Book of the Week · broadcast March 28th
ISBN: 978-1526600011
Appointment in Arezzo by Alan Taylor
A Good Read · broadcast March 27th
ISBN: 978-1846973758
Stasiland by Anna Funder
A Good Read · broadcast March 27th
ISBN: 978-1783787340
The Understudy by David Nicholls
A Good Read · broadcast March 27th
ISBN: 978-1399765190
Shakespeare in a Divided America, by James Shapiro
Book of the Week · broadcast March 21st
ISBN: 978-0571338887
Your Blue-Eyed Boy, by Helen Dunmore
BBC Radio 4 book reading · broadcast March 20th
ISBN: 978-0316197380
Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
A Good Read · broadcast March 20th
ISBN: 978-0241116647
How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
A Good Read · broadcast March 20th
ISBN: 978-0091940744
The Secretary by Renee Knight
A Good Read · broadcast March 20th
ISBN: 978-1784160289
The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
BBC Radio 4 book reading · broadcast March 13th
ISBN: 978-0199538898
Diary of a Somebody by Brian Bilston
A Good Read · broadcast March 10th
ISBN: 978-1529005547
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
A Good Read · broadcast March 10th
ISBN: 978-0006490340
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
A Good Read · broadcast March 10th
ISBN: 978-0571191475
Apeirogon, by Colum McCann
BBC Radio 4 book reading · broadcast March 6th
ISBN: 978-1526607898
The Special Relationship by Hassan Abdulrazzak
Front Row · broadcast March 5th
ISBN: 978-1965541364
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
Front Row · broadcast March 4th
ISBN: 978-0007481002
Noughts + Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Front Row · broadcast March 3rd
ISBN: 978-0141378640
Indemnity Only by Sara Paretsky
A Good Read · broadcast March 3rd
ISBN: 978-0385302609
Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters
A Good Read · broadcast March 3rd
ISBN: 978-0007200368
The Glorious Life of the Oak by John Lewis-Stempel
A Good Read · broadcast March 3rd
ISBN: 978-0857525819
Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes
Bookclub · broadcast March 1st
ISBN: 978-0241958438