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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.

Schedule

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

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The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp by Leonie Swann

Monday, November 18 through Friday, December 13, 2024
Read by Michele Good


It has been an eventful morning for Agnes Sharp and the other inhabitants of Sunset Hall, a house share for the old and unruly in the sleepy English countryside. Although they have had some issues (misplaced reading glasses, conflicting culinary tastes, decreasing mobility, and gluttonous grandsons), nothing prepares them for an unexpected visit from a police officer with some shocking news. A body has been discovered next door. Everyone puts on a long face for show, but they are secretly relieved the body in question is not the one they’re currently hiding in the shed (sorry, Lillith).

THEME: “The Witches of Eastwick: Devil’s Dance” by John Williams; Gil Shaham & Jonathan Feldman, The Devil’s Dance, Deutsche Grammophon

(Soho Crime; ISBN-10: 1641294337 / ISBN-13: 978-1641294331)


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


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Skipping Christmas by John Grisham

Monday, december 16 through wednesday, December 25, 2024
Read by jim fleming


Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That’s just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they’ll skip the holiday altogether.

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