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How Are You? by Deborah Moggach
Diana and her husband are looking forward to swimming in their own pool.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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School Days - Romeo and Julie
Julie can't face playing Juliet before her parents. Has the drama teacher wasted his time?
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Crime Down Under: The Dry by Jane Harper
Jane Harper's thriller set in a drought-ravaged Australian community.
BBC Radio 4
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Every Third Thought by Robert McCrum
Author Robert McCrum reflects on how we approach and accept death. Read by Nicky Henson.
BBC Radio 4
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Helen Dunmore - The Siege
The story of one family caught up in the struggle to survive the Siege of Leningrad.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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James Follett - The Pentworth Trilogy
Classic sci-fi by the author of Earthsearch.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Every Third Thought by Robert McCrum (Omnibus)
Author Robert McCrum reflects on how we approach and accept death.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland by Carson McCullers
The music department is running smoothly, yet Mr Brook is uneasy over Madame Zilensky.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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South and West by Joan Didion (Omnibus)
New Orleans’ oppressive atmosphere stirs memories of Joan Didion’s childhood visits.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Short Story
Brand new stories, from today’s best writers on Radio 4 – the home of the Short Story.
BBC Radio 4
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The Rub of Time by Martin Amis
Readings from a collection of non-fiction pieces by Martin Amis from 1986 to 2016.
BBC Radio 4
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Give Me Space Below My Feet
Is it possible to take 93-year-old mountaineer Gwen Moffat climbing again?
BBC Radio 3
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Hull 2017: Contains Strong Language
Part of the BBC's season of poetry and performance from Hull
BBC Radio 4
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The Omen by David Seltzer
Owen Teale reads the novelisation of David Seltzer's academy award-winning horror story.
BBC Radio 4
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I Used to Live Here by Gillian Tindall
Her old home is now a museum, a ghostly reflection of its past but she recalls how it was.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Deathwatch Journal by Ian Rankin
Crime serial specially written by Ian Rankin, best-selling author of the Rebus novels.
BBC Radio 4
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Sally Marmion's fifteen-part adaptation of Jane Eyre read by Anne-Marie Duff
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Sarah Millican - How to Be Champion (Omnibus)
Sarah Millican reads from her frank and occasionally outrageous memoir.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman (Omnibus)
The tale of a pot boy named Malcolm Polstead and a girl hidden in a convent.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively's memoir of her life in gardens is read by Stephanie Cole.
BBC Radio 4
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The Dawn Watch by Maya Jasonoff (Omnibus)
The story of Joseph Conrad. He yearns for the sailor's life. Read by Laurel Lefkow.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Rabbit Redux by John Updike
Serialised reading of John Updike's 1971 novel. Read by Toby Jones.
BBC Radio 4
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Web Central by Fay Weldon
Josie is aged 132, a privileged Heaven on Earther, existing above the underclass.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Over and Out by Henry Blofeld (Omnibus)
Blowers reads his biography, starting with early years at the crease.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Gail Honeyman's heartwarming novel about loneliness, loss and the possibility of change.
BBC Radio 4
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Air Mo Chuairt le Ealasaid Chaimbeul
An leabhar le Ealasaid, tidsear à Barraigh air a leughadh le Màiri Liz NicFhionghain
BBC Radio nan Gàidheal
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Village Christmas by Laurie Lee
Derek Jacobi reads Laurie Lee's evocative portrait of England in the last century.
BBC Radio 4
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Turgenev's First Love
Ivan Turgenev's masterpiece is a tale of young love, helpless passion and bitter betrayal.
BBC Radio 4
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Adventures of a Young Naturalist by David Attenborough
David Attenborough reads from his 1955 account of his trip to Guyana in search of wildlife
BBC Radio 4
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Village Christmas by Laurie Lee (Omnibus)
Derek Jacobi reads Laurie Lee's evocative portrait of England in the last century.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Wintertide
A poetic meditation on the season, myth and waiting: Robert Pugh reads Cynan Jones's story
BBC Radio 4
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Adventures of a Young Naturalist by David Attenborough (Omnibus)
In the 1950s, the naturalist and broadcaster grasped a life changing opportunity.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark's playful and searching novel set amid London's postwar publishing scene.
BBC Radio 4
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Auntie's War by Edward Stourton
Edward Stourton's account of the BBC during the Second World War.
BBC Radio 4
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How to Stop Time by Matt Haig (Omnibus)
Two-part omnibus edition of Matt Haig's tale of a man who does not age.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark (Omnibus)
Playful and autobiographical novel set in London's post-war publishing scene.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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In Search of Mary Shelley (Omnibus)
Mary Shelley is born into a world of romantic poetry and scientific experiment.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk (Omnibus)
Two-part omnibus edition of Turkish author Orhan Pamuk's The Red-Haired Woman.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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60 Degrees North
Reading of Shetland author Malachy Tallack's book Sixty Degrees North.
BBC Radio Scotland
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60 Degrees North
Reading of Shetland author Malachy Tallack's book Sixty Degrees North.
BBC Radio Scotland
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No Place to Lay One's Head by Francoise Frenkel (Omnibus)
A real life account of a flight from Berlin by a Jewish bookseller in the late 1930s.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Somebody I Used to Know by Wendy Mitchell (Omnibus)
Aged just 58, Wendy Mitchell faced up to a disease threatening to steal all hope.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
James Joyce's autobiographical modernist masterpiece. Read by Andrew Scott.
BBC Radio 4
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (Omnibus)
Two-part omnibus edition of the James Joyce classic read by Andrew Scott.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú
Francisco Cantú recounts his experiences of policing the US-Mexican border.
BBC Radio 4
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The Long Drop by Denise Mina
Denise Mina reimagines the trial of brutal serial killer Peter Manuel in 1950s Glasgow.
BBC Radio 4
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Dà Sgeulachd bho Iain Moireach
Taghadh de sgeulachdan-goirid leis an sgrìobhadair Iain Moireach à Barabhas.
BBC Radio nan Gàidheal
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The Wood by John Lewis-Stempel (Omnibus)
The changing seasons in Cockshutt Wood, Herefordshire.
BBC Radio 4 Extra