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Making Time For Reading

08-Oct-24 18:00

Making Time For Reading

The government is introducing the National Reading Index to track our reading habits on a national scale. So we thought we'd use this opportunity to talk about reading, specifically, how much we read, what we like to read and how we've managed to maintain this habit.

Image Credit: Vincenzo Malagoli, Pexels

Produced by: Evening Edition

Presented by: Lee Chwi Lynn, Sharaad Kuttan


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Categories:  Literature/Philosophy

Tags:  National Reading Indexreadingreading culturebooksaudio bookse-booksliteratureliteracynational book policynational unity government





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