Book of the Week
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Book of the Week is a long-running BBC Radio 4 series, first broadcast in 1998. It features daily readings from an abridged version of a selected book read over five or occasionally ten weekday episod
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Michelle Obama
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Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is an American attorney and author who served as First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017 as the wife of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States
Book of the Week
…the actors' narrations and the additional impact provided by authors reading their own books. Notable authors who have read their own books include Michelle Obama, who read a version of her book The Light We Carry in 2023, and Clive James, who read a version of his book The Blaze of Obscurity in October 2009. In…
Official portrait, 2013
Robinson in the Princeton University yearbook in 1985
Official portrait by Pete Souza of the Obama family in the Oval Office on December 11, 2011
The Obamas fist bump upon his winning the Democratic nomination.