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Chapter A Day

Started in 1931, “Chapter a Day” is WPR’s longest-running program. Jim Fleming, Norman Gilliland, Michele Good, Melvin Hinton, Baron Kelly and Susan Sweeney read a chapter from a book for a half hour each weekday. Genres are predominately contemporary and range from works of fiction, history and biography.

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WPR Music, 7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., WPR News, 9:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Book Cover for "Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier

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Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Monday, August 26 through Friday, September 20, 2024
Read by Jim Fleming


Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His trek across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with enslaved persons and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. At the same time, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father’s derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away.

This book is a story of love and survival set near the end of the Civil War. It contains descriptions of violence and cruelty toward both people and animals, as well as language and descriptive terms that were in common usage at the time. Please be advised.

(Grove Press; ISBN: 0802142842)

Theme: “The Lover’s Waltz” with Jay Unger and Molly Mason (Angel 5561-2)


Readings are archived for just one week after their broadcast due to publisher 
copyright restrictions.


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Book Cover for "Fallen: George Mallory and the Tragic 1924 Everest Expedition" by Mick Conefrey

Fallen: George Mallory and the Tragic 1924 Everest Expedition by Mick Conefrey

Monday, September 23 through Friday, October 11, 2024
Read by Norman Gilliland


In the years following his disappearance near the summit of Mount Everest in June 1924 at the age of thirty-seven, George Mallory was elevated into a legendary international hero. But who was the real George Mallory?

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