• The Big Read was a survey on books carried out by the BBC in the United Kingdom in 2003, where over three-quarters of a million votes were received from...
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  • The Big Jubilee Read is a 2022 campaign to promote reading for pleasure and to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. A list of 70 books by Commonwealth...
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  • The Big Read initiative was launched in Germany by the public television broadcaster ZDF in 2004, under the name "Das große Lesen". Based on the BBC version...
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  • nominated by the British public in 2003 as one of the top 100 novels in the BBC's Big Read. In Germany the novel is called Die Muschelsucher and was also in the...
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    late 1995. Read was heard on BBC Radio 2 in 1992 presenting special shows looking back at the career of Cliff Richard and playing his music. Read then joined...
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  • Big Read is the Hungarian version of the BBC Big Read. The Big Read was imported into Hungary under the name A Nagy Könyv (lit. "The Big Book") and took...
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    and a long-running stage play. In 2003, the book was listed on the BBC's Big Read poll of Britain's "best-loved novels." The story's narrator, Richard...
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  • Discworld (category BBC Radio dramas)
    awards such as the Prometheus Award and the Carnegie Medal. In the BBC's Big Read, four Discworld novels were in the top 100, and a total of fourteen...
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  • 2010, and a video game in 2017. The book was listed at no. 33 on the BBC's Big Read, a 2003 survey with the goal of finding the "nation's best-loved book"...
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    was read out five times as the BBC broadcast it live to different parts of the world. Recording from original BBC archive disks YouTube The BBC would...
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  • Number 42". Scientific American. 21 September 2020. "BBC - The Big Read - Top 100 Books". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 27 March 2024. Hitchhikers Guide easter...
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  • "most distinguished book". In 2003, Katherine was ranked 95 in the BBC's Big Read survey of Britain's best-loved novels. It is commonly regarded as a...
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  • Mastermind, Episode 8". BBC. Archived from the original on 14 March 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2023. "Recipes by Tom Read Wilson". BBC. Archived from the original...
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  • World War. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 19 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. Dr. Iannis resides on the Greek island of Cephalonia with his...
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  • 1953 he received the Attila József Prize. Two of his books placed in the Top 100 of the Hungarian version of the BBC Big Read. Heti Világgazdaság v t e...
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    BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and...
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  • The Big Read (Bulgarian: Голямото четене, trans. Golyamoto chetene) was a survey initiated by the Bulgarian National Television, the goal of which was...
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  • 100 English-language modern novels (1923 onwards, unranked). The Big Read by the BBC ranked Catch-22 as number 11 on a web poll of the UK's best-loved...
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    The first Big Fat Quiz was broadcast on 27 December 2004. Louis Walsh, Nadia Almada and Dame Kelly Holmes all made live appearances to read out the answers...
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  • Celebrity Big Brother". BBC News. BBC. 11 January 2015. Archived from the original on 12 January 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2015. "Celebrity Big Brother:...
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  • Branfordboaseaward.org.uk. Retrieved 30 March 2022. "BBC - The Big Read - Top 200 Books". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 30 March 2022. American Library Association...
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    Lyn Valley area of Exmoor. In 2003, the novel was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read. John Ridd is the son of a respectable farmer in the 17th century...
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  • His Dark Materials (category BBC Radio dramas)
    The Amber Spyglass. In 2003, the trilogy was ranked third on the BBC's The Big Read poll. Although His Dark Materials has been marketed as young adult...
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  • March 2014. Stoney (2011), loc. 4303 Stoney (2011), loc. 4528 "The Big Read", BBC, April 2003, retrieved 9 December 2008 "John Jolly by the Sea", Enid...
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    Compass. In 2003, His Dark Materials trilogy ranked third in the BBC's The Big Read, a poll of 200 top novels voted by the British public. Philip Pullman...
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    BBC Four is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It was launched on 2 March 2002 and shows a wide...
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  • Look and Read is a BBC Television programme for primary schools, aimed at improving children's literacy skills. The programme presents fictional stories...
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  • and a TV series in 2020. In 2003, the novel was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read. Rob Fleming is a 35-year-old man who owns a record shop in London...
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  • particularly in terms of violence. In 2003, the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novels." The novel has been adapted into...
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  • The BFG (redirect from Big Friendly Giant)
    the world yearly. In 2003, The BFG was listed at number 56 in The Big Read, a BBC survey of the British public. In 2012, the novel was ranked number...
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