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  1. Irish International

    Three Irish writers give their take on being an Irishman living and writing abroad.

    BBC Radio 4

  2. Subway

    Series of short stories with subterranean settings.

    BBC Radio 4

  3. Hibernian Homicide: New Irish Crime Stories

    Short stories of mystery and intrigue from Northern Irish crime writers.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  4. Sitters' Stories

    Short story series. Characters from famous paintings get a chance to tell their story.

    BBC Radio 4

  5. Noel Coward - From His Diaries

    Noel Coward's diary extracts, ready by Simon Cadell

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  6. Copenhagen Curios

    Three stories by Heidi Amsinck set in Copenhagen antique shops, places full of curiosity.

    BBC Radio 4

  7. Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot

    Airline pilot Mark Vanhoenacker explores the human experience of flight.

    BBC Radio 4

  8. Stories by Teffi

    Series of tales by Teffi, a literary star in pre-revolutionary Russia.

    BBC Radio 4

  9. Liars' League

    Series of three tales recorded at the Liars' League short story events.

    BBC Radio 4

  10. The Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks

    James Rebanks' emotional account of growing up in a farming family in the Lake District

    BBC Radio 4

  11. Vesna Goldsworthy - Gorsky

    A story about beauty, money and books. Read by Philip Arditti.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  12. Blood, Sweat and Tears

    Short stories by three of Britain's top crime writers.

    BBC Radio 4

  13. The History of the Peloponnesian War

    First-hand account by Thucydides of the 5th-century BC wars between Athens and Sparta.

    BBC Radio 4

  14. Above Ground

    Short stories on the theme of age and ageing.

    BBC Radio 4

  15. Peter Moore - The Weather Experiment

    Peter Moore's lively account of the adventurous quest to understand the weather.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  16. Wish You Weren't Here...

    Short stories by three top writers about that awkward person one would rather not meet.

    BBC Radio 4

  17. Poem Stories

    Writers best known as poets adapt their own poems into short stories.

    BBC Radio 4

  18. Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch by Dorothy K Haynes

    Series of five stories by Scottish author Dorothy K Haynes, first published in 1949

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  19. Yeats: The Man and the Echo

    Three Irish writers choose three WB Yeats poems as inspiration for a story.

    BBC Radio 4

  20. Rapunzel

    Short stories by Julie Mayhew, inspired by Rapunzel and other traditional European tales.

    BBC Radio 4

  21. 60 Degrees North by Malachy Tallack

    Malachy Tallack sets out from Shetland on a journey around the 60th parallel.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  22. A Pocketful of Rye

    Series of three stories set in and around Rye in East Sussex.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  23. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee (Omnibus)

    Harper Lee's second novel revisits the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

    Show available episodes

  24. The Computer Speaks

    Series of three short stories about computers finding their voice

    BBC Radio 4

  25. Long Time No See by Hannah Lowe

    Poet Hannah Lowe reads from her memoir about her Jamaican father.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  26. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

    Harper Lee's explosive second novel, believed lost for decades. Abridged by Robin Brooks

    BBC Radio 4

    Show available episodes

  27. Joe Smith and His Waxworks

    Short stories about a travelling showman's life in mid-Victorian England.

    BBC Radio 4

  28. Simon Mawer - Tightrope

    Political alliances forged during WWII give way to the moral uncertainties of the Cold War

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  29. Behind the Screen

    Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers contribute to the 1930s whodunit

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  30. Angielski

    Three short stories that offer some different angles on the Polish experience in London

    BBC Radio 4

  31. Miranda July - No One Belongs Here More Than You

    Short stories by the US director, producer, artist and writer

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  32. Tessa Hadley - The Past

    Tessa Hadley's novel, a story of siblings, secrets, misunderstandings and passion.

    BBC Radio 4

  33. Jellyfish

    Short stories from a collection by writer Janice Galloway

    BBC Radio 4

  34. Rowing to Eden

    Three short stories from American writer Amy Bloom.

    BBC Radio 4

  35. Baroness Orczy - The Scarlet Pimpernel

    Damian Lewis narrates an eight-part adaptation of the adventure by Baroness Orczy

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  36. William Boyd - Sweet Caress

    William Boyd's novel follows one remarkable woman through the decades of the 20th century.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  37. Funny Bones

    Series showcasing the best Irish comic writing

    BBC Radio 4

  38. The Enduring Land - Extracts from Sunset Song

    Three extracts from Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel of Scottish rural life

    BBC Radio 4

  39. Nights of the Hunter

    Series of stories that dwell in the shadows about pursuers and the pursued

    BBC Radio 4

  40. New Writing from the Arab World

    Contemporary short fiction series

    BBC Radio 4

  41. Death in the Fifth Position by Gore Vidal

    Mystery thriller by Gore Vidal, writing as Edgar Box, set in the world of ballet

    BBC Radio 4

  42. Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    Alan Bennett reads Lewis Carroll's classic children's tales.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  43. Rebecca F John - Clown's Shoes

    Debut short story collection from writer Rebecca F John

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  44. e=mc2

    Short stories written to mark the centenary of Einstein's general theory of relativity.

    BBC Radio 4

  45. Ruth Rendell - Dark Corners (Omnibus)

    Adaptation of Ruth Rendell's final, posthumously published novel.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  46. The Railways: Nation, Network and People by Simon Bradley

    A magnificent account of Britain's railways and how track and carriage united a nation.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  47. From the Vineyard

    Three stories about the wonderful world of wine.

    BBC Radio 4

  48. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

    Jeremy Irons reads TS Eliot's classic verse collection

    BBC Radio 4

  49. The Outrun by Amy Liptrot

    Amy Liptrot's incisive memoir of overcoming alcoholism amid the luminous Orkney landscape.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  50. The Stories

    Short stories by Jane Gardam

    BBC Radio 4

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