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Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
The story of Medusa as you've never heard it before. Read by Susannah Fielding.
BBC Radio 4
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Middle England by Jonathan Coe (Omnibus)
Jonathan Coe's new novel for our strange new times, read by Jeff Rawle.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich (Omnibus)
With the world in crisis, evolution goes into reverse. Louise Erdrich's novel.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Stories from Ukraine
Short stories taken from the anthology 'Love in Defiance of Pain: Ukrainian Stories'
BBC Radio 4
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Middle England by Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe's new novel for our strange new times, read by Jeff Rawle.
BBC Radio 4
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Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Caleb Azumah Nelson's award-winning novel about identity, masculinity, love and loss.
BBC Radio 4
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The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight
Sam Knight's bestseller about the true reported premonitions of disasters in the 1960s.
BBC Radio 4
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Dance Move by Wendy Erskine
Tales from the new collection of short stories by Wendy Erskine.
BBC Radio 4
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Edible Economics by Ha-Joon Chang
Ha-Joon Chang is inspired by his passion for food to reflect on why economics matters.
BBC Radio 4
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The Climate Book created by Greta Thunberg
One book, containing the wisdom of over 100 experts, aiming to combat climate disaster.
BBC Radio 4
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Voices in the Valley
Strange tales set in an isolated village on the Yorkshire/Lancashire border.
BBC Radio 4
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Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver's powerful epic tale inspired by Charles Dickens' David Copperfield.
BBC Radio 4
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Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben MacIntyre
Samuel West reads the incredible true story of the most infamous prison in history.
BBC Radio 4
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Psycho by Robert Bloch
William Hope reads Robert Bloch’s 1959 classic horror story.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa
Maria Ressa's memoir chronicling her fight to protect democracy by reporting the facts.
BBC Radio 4
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The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
When the waterfall freezes it creates a strange, magical structure - the Ice Palace.
BBC Radio 4
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Night Terrors by Alice Vernon
An investigation into the darkest part of our sleeping lives and all types of parasomnias.
BBC Radio 4
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Voices from Behind the Canvas
Stories in which a famous painting, or a character within the painting, tells their tale.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney
The American comedian's fiercely tender memoir of losing his toddler son to cancer.
BBC Radio 4
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A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
The tenderness and tragedy of everyday lives in a backwater town in 1970s Ontario.
BBC Radio 4
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Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley
Lucy Worsley reads her account of the extraordinary life of the 'Queen of Crime'.
BBC Radio 4
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Marple: Three New Stories
Agatha Christie's iconic detective is reimagined for a new generation.
BBC Radio 4
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Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel's honest yet painfully funny memoir of childhood and childlessness.
BBC Radio 4
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The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama shares her insights and strategies for living boldly in an uncertain world.
BBC Radio 4
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Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Bonnie Garmus' comic bestseller, featuring the idiosyncratic feminist icon Elizabeth Zott.
BBC Radio 4
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Clubland by Peter Brown
A convivial guide through the intoxicating history of the working men's club.
BBC Radio 4
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Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
Novel by Barbara Kingsolver. Abridged by Sian Preece. Read by Laurel Lefkow
BBC Radio 4
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Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver (Omnibus)
The novel from Barbara Kingsolver, bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Meat Paradox by Rob Percival
How empathy, ethics, the economy and ecology will shape our diets in the future.
BBC Radio 4
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Really Good, Actually
Soon to be divorced Maggie is completely fine. Really Good, Actually.
BBC Radio 4
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Wise Gals by Nathalia Holt
The unsung story of the women who worked for the early American intelligence agency.
BBC Radio 4
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My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor
A powerful thriller, based on a true story, set in 1943 as German forces occupy Rome.
BBC Radio 4
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean: A New Collection of Essays by Joan Didion
Selected essays offering a glimpse into the mind and process of the writer Joan Didion.
BBC Radio 4
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The Madness by Fergal Keane
Journalist Fergal Keane's powerful and intensely personal memoir of war, fear and PTSD.
BBC Radio 4
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Death at Broadcasting House
During the broadcast of a BBC radio play, one of the cast is strangled in the studio.
BBC Radio 4
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Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell
Katherine Rundell's new biography of John Donne - poet, preacher, scholar and soldier.
BBC Radio 4
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Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Russian masterpiece about the flawed darling of St Petersburg, read by Rhashan Stone.
BBC Radio 4
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O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
A glittering, gothic and surreal coming-of-age story with a deadly twist.
BBC Radio 4
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A Tomb with a View by Peter Ross
Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of graveyards.
BBC Radio 4
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Soft Lad by Nick Grimshaw
DJ Nick Grimshaw's brilliantly funny and fearlessly frank stories about his life so far.
BBC Radio 4
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The Advocate by Marcello Fois
At the end of the 19th century, a rural Sardinian community is thrown into turmoil.
BBC Radio 4
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Travellers to Unimaginable Lands: Dementia, Carers and the Hidden Workings of the Mind by Dasha Kiper
Compassionate case studies into dementia disorders by Dasha Kiper.
BBC Radio 4
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Lioness: My Journey to Glory by Beth Mead
Faye Marsay reads the highly anticipated memoir of England football star Beth Mead.
BBC Radio 4
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Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry
Questions about an old case pull a retired policeman into the darkest currents of his past
BBC Radio 4
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Breaking Mississippi
The explosive inside story of one man's war against racial segregation in the 1960s.
BBC Radio 4
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Humanly Possible by Sarah Bakewell
Sarah Bakewell explores 700 years of humanist thinking, enquiry and hope.
BBC Radio 4
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Algernon Blackwood's Ghost Stories
Supernatural tales by English short story writer Algernon Blackwood. Read by Hugh Ross.
BBC Radio 4
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The Chronicles of Burke Street
Brilliantly funny short stories set in Trinidad by award-winning author Ingrid Persaud.
BBC Radio 4