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BBC Radio 4

84 Book Crossing Road

2nd May 2005
Produced by Tim Heffer

What happens when you leave 84 well-read copies of a book labelled Take Me Home and Read Me in public places in London and New York? When the book is Helene Hanff's much-loved 84 Charing Cross Road, the result is chains of those whose lives have been touched by the copy they've found...

"Every listener has a list of programmes caught by accident, heard with pleasure, remembered. I know from readers' letters that one such was 84 Book Crossing Road ..."

Gillian Reynolds, Daily Telegraph

Nominee, Sony Award 2006
"The past and present meet in an enchanting web of skillfully edited interview and narrative as the evergreen story of the bookseller at 84 Charing Cross Road is passed from reader to reader across the world. A perfect match of form and content."
Sony Radio Academy Awards citation, 2006

  • 84 Charing Cross Road book