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  1. Love Stories

    A special season of audio dramas exploring the theme of love

    BBC Radio 4

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  2. James Bond - Casino Royale (Omnibus)

    The stakes are high in a dangerous game of chance for Agent 007.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Omnibus)

    Charlotte Bronte's story of a woman's search for independence and love on her own terms.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  4. Red Memory by Tania Branigan

    A powerful exploration of China's Cultural Revolution from the Guardian's Tania Branigan.

    BBC Radio 4

  5. The Young Accomplice by Benjamin Wood

    A story of opportunity and good intentions by Benjamin Wood. Read by Rupert Evans.

    BBC Radio 4

  6. The Earth Transformed by Peter Frankopan

    An epic history of how the changing climate has shaped the rise and fall of civilisations.

    BBC Radio 4

  7. Sounds Like Fun by Bryan Moriarty

    Bryan Moriarty’s candid, funny and heartbreaking rom com about having an open relationship

    BBC Radio 4

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  8. Victory City by Salman Rushdie

    The new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Midnight's Children.

    BBC Radio 4

  9. Among Others by Michael Frayn

    Martin Jarvis reads from Michael Frayn's forensic, often comic, new autobiography.

    BBC Radio 4

  10. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (Omnibus)

    Joseph Heller's satirical Second World War-set novel. Read by Stuart Milligan.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  11. Hands of Time by Rebecca Struthers

    Watchmaker Rebecca Struthers' unique exploration of the history and art of timekeeping.

    BBC Radio 4

  12. On Portobello Prom

    Sara Sheridan's charming story of young love, big decisions and life on Portobello Prom.

    BBC Radio 4

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  13. The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks

    The debut novel by Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks.

    BBC Radio 4

  14. Into the Night: A Year with the Police by Matt Lloyd-Rose

    Matt Lloyd-Rose describes his year volunteering as a special constable in south London.

    BBC Radio 4

  15. Maame by Jessica George

    The story of a young woman finding her own voice, and her own place in the world.

    BBC Radio 4

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  16. Ruth Rendell Stories

    Series of short stories from crime writer Ruth Rendell.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  17. The West: A New History of an Old Idea by Naoíse Mac Sweeney

    Naoise Mac Sweeney interrogates the myth of the west and its exclusively European origins.

    BBC Radio 4

  18. Pathogenesis: How Germs Made History by Jonathan Kennedy

    A study of the role plagues have played in shaping human history. Read by Gunnar Cauthery.

    BBC Radio 4

  19. The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng

    Based on real events, Tan Twan Eng's novel of love and betrayal under the shadow of Empire

    BBC Radio 4

  20. Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine by Hannah Fry

    Mathematician and broadcaster Dr Hannah Fry explores the algorithms that surround us.

    BBC Radio 4

  21. Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World by Helen Czerski

    Helen Czerski's illuminating new book on how the ocean works. Lyndsey Marshal reads.

    BBC Radio 4

  22. Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

    A gripping ecological thriller from Booker Prize-winning author Eleanor Catton.

    BBC Radio 4

  23. Coastlines

    Series of five original short stories for radio.

    BBC Radio 4

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  24. The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon (Omnibus)

    Don Warrington reads Sam Selvon's 1950's classic of immigrant life in London.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  25. A Year to Change Your Mind by Dr Lucy Maddox

    Dr Lucy Maddox shares ideas from the therapy room to help you live better.

    BBC Radio 4

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  26. Monsters by Claire Dederer

    A provocative and challenging interrogation of the link between genius and monstrosity.

    BBC Radio 4

  27. For Human Consumption

    Three stories about people connected to The Fork, a pay-what-you-feel cafe.

    BBC Radio 4

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  28. Apricots on the Nile by Colette Rossant (Omnibus)

    The culinary-tinged memoirs of a woman raised in cosmopolitan Cairo in the 1940s.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  29. Return to Paris by Colette Rossant

    Colette Rossant, celebrated New York food writer, remembers life in post-war Paris

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  30. The Sorcerer of Pyongyang by Marcel Theroux

    In 1995, an 11-year-old boy in North Korea stumbles across a strange foreign book.

    BBC Radio 4

  31. Golden Eggs

    British Asian writers take traditional stories and rework them in contemporary settings.

    BBC Radio 4

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  32. The Forgotten Girls by Monica Potts

    A gripping and unforgettable story of friendship and lost promise in 21st-century America.

    BBC Radio 4

  33. Attack Warning Red! by Julie McDowall

    The story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front from the Atomic Hobo podcast host.

    BBC Radio 4

  34. Money by Martin Amis

    Amis's defining novel of 1980s excess, featuring the self-destructive anti-hero John Self.

    BBC Radio 4

  35. The Rooster House: My Ukrainian Family Story by Victoria Belim

    Ukrainian journalist Victoria Belim returns to her country to unravel her family history.

    BBC Radio 4

  36. Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang

    Rebecca F Kuang’s deliciously dark, witty thriller with a deeply flawed narrator

    BBC Radio 4

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  37. The Year of the Cat by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    A memoir of past trauma, the pandemic and a new pet.

    BBC Radio 4

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  38. The Lock Up by John Banville

    1950s Dublin. The body of a woman is discovered in a lock-up garage - an apparent suicide.

    BBC Radio 4

  39. The Restless Republic - Britain Without a Crown by Anna Keay

    The story of the extraordinary decade that followed the execution of Charles I in 1649.

    BBC Radio 4

  40. Wifedom - Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder

    Anna Funder's genre-bending biography of Eileen, George Orwell's forgotten first wife.

    BBC Radio 4

  41. Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr

    Cape Town, the near future. A street kid comes to possess an old woman's lost memory

    BBC Radio 4

  42. What We Fear Most: Reflections on a Life in Forensic Psychiatry by Dr Ben Cave

    Dr Ben Cave's compassionate memoir of a life working in prisons and secure hospitals.

    BBC Radio 4

  43. Invasive Species

    Short stories from the best writers.

    BBC Radio 4

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  44. How to Build Impossible Things by Mark Ellison

    Book of the Week. New York's carpenter to the rich and famous reflects on his career.

    BBC Radio 4

  45. Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney

    Bríd Brennan, Adrian Dunbar and Stephen Rea read Heaney's 1966 debut poetry collection.

    BBC Radio 4

  46. Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food by Fuchsia Dunlop

    The history, philosophy and techniques of China's rich and ancient culinary culture.

    BBC Radio 4

  47. The Exhibitionist by Charlotte Mendelson

    A darkly humorous book about a bohemian family with a patriarchal monster at its centre.

    BBC Radio 4

  48. Adam Smith: What He Thought and Why It Matters by Jesse Norman

    A succinct and engaging account of the life, times and legacy of economist Adam Smith.

    BBC Radio 4

  49. The Secret Hours by Mick Herron

    Max's peaceful retirement is about to be shattered in the new thriller from Mick Herron.

    BBC Radio 4

  50. Material World by Ed Conway

    An epic journey through time and around the world and six materials that make our world.

    BBC Radio 4

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