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The White Lady of Morecambe by Jenn Ashworth
Julie Hesmondhalgh narrates a new ghost story, set on the shifting sands of Morecambe Bay.
BBC Radio 4
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Constable's Year by Susan Owens
The story of how John Constable's relationship with the seasons shaped his life and art.
BBC Radio 4
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Surge by Erin Soros
Schoolboy Olaf embarks on a perilous dare but overlooks his duty to his sister.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Craftland
Academic and broadcaster James Fox explores Britain's lost arts and vanishing trades.
BBC Radio 4
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A History of the Bible by John Barton (Omnibus)
Hugh Bonneville reads John Barton's story of the Bible and the faiths that hold it sacred.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
Yoko Ogawa's mysterious tale about the power of the state, loss and endurance.
BBC Radio 4
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Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth (Omnibus)
Ireland. Old Thady has served under four disastrous generations of Rackrents.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono (Omnibus)
In France, between the World Wars, a shepherd sows the seeds of hope for mankind.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Captain's Apprentice by Caroline Davison (Omnibus)
Edwardian folk song, The Fens and the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
Ireland. Old Thady has served under four disastrous generations of Rackrents.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem
Wry 'fables for the cybernetic age' from Poland's most original author of science fiction.
BBC Radio 4
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The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
A shepherd sows seeds of hope for mankind in Jean Giono's inspiring tale set in Europe.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear (Omnibus)
From Kensington to the Lake District, the early years and story of Beatrix Potter.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Ormolu Clock by Muriel Spark
A tale of the rivalries of two hotel owners on the Austrian-Yugoslavian border.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Wedding Suit by Rachel Joyce
A specially commissioned five-part serial by best-selling novelist Rachel Joyce.
BBC Radio 4
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Mary Macdonald's Big Trip by Alexander McCall Smith
On retirement from her Hebridean school, Miss Macdonald plans the adventure of a lifetime.
BBC Radio 4
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The End of Family? By Zoe Strimpel
Zoe Strimpel asks thought-provoking questions about the family in contemporary Britain.
BBC Radio 4
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Virginia and Katherine by Alison MacLeod
A story about the friendship and rivalry between Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield.
BBC Radio 4
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The Accident Report Book by Joe Dunthorne
Marian has to write up a bizarre workplace accident - original fiction by Joe Dunthorne.
BBC Radio 4
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O Now by Niall Williams
Dermot Crowley reads a new fiction serial from the acclaimed Irish author Niall Williams.
BBC Radio 4
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Intimate Histories by Hallie Rubenhold
Hallie Rubenhold challenges the ideas of what history is and the stories it can tell.
BBC Radio 4
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Mrs Robinson by Helen Cross
At the height of a TB epidemic, Mrs Robinson meets dissolute poet Branwell Brontë.
BBC Radio 4
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Speed of Light by Laura Cumming
Laura Cumming explores a 19th-century technological revolution in photography.
BBC Radio 4
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Beautiful Strangeness by Rebecca Stott
Five original essays on how the mysterious is woven into the ordinary and the everyday.
BBC Radio 4
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Unearthing the Past by Sarah Dunant
A beguiling series of essays centred on the Renaissance icon Isabella d'Este.
BBC Radio 4
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Disco by Nick Walker
Defence: Serious Case Operations investigate the murder of a military bandsman in Burnley.
BBC Radio 4
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Shakedowns in Hyperspace by Naomi Wood
A darkly comic and brilliantly original series for Radio 4 from the acclaimed Naomi Wood.
BBC Radio 4
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Underdogs by Joel Budd
Joel Budd explores the myths around the stereotype of the 'white working class'.
BBC Radio 4
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The Age of Diagnosis by Suzanne O'Sullivan
A thought-provoking new book exploding conventional wisdom about medical diagnoses.
BBC Radio 4
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Reading Journeys by A.L. Kennedy
A.L. Kennedy on the journeys that await readers when they open the covers of a book.
BBC Radio 4
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The Jura Affair by William Boyd
A sparkling new literary whodunnit from the acclaimed author William Boyd.
BBC Radio 4
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The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier
Venice 1486. Orsola Rosso flouts convention, honing her craft to save her family from ruin
BBC Radio 4
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Vidya Wade by Timothy X Atack
Maya thinks they've got a ghost. Vidya is the only extra-natural mediator she can find.
BBC Radio 4
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Raiders of the Lost Cask by Abir Mukherjee
A Highland heist story written for BBC Radio 4 by Abir Mukherjee. Read by Sudha Bhuchar.
BBC Radio 4
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Maurice and Maralyn by Sophie Elmhirst
An encounter with a whale on the Pacific Ocean leaves Maurice and Maralyn in peril.
BBC Radio 4
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Rye by Alex Preston
Rye, Sussex, 1804. Zeke is determined to free his father from a prison hulk at Sheeerness.
BBC Radio 4
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The Green & The Black by Kit de Waal
New fiction about the changing face of modern Ireland, as told through one family.
BBC Radio 4
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Money by David McWilliams
Economist David McWilliams charts the relationship between humans and money.
BBC Radio 4
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wonder by Katherine Rundell
Book of the Week. Five original essays on the power and politics of children’s fiction.
BBC Radio 4
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The Last Loves of Ronnie Maker by Alice Jolly
A newly-commissioned serial from Alice Jolly about love, loyalty and the meaning of care.
BBC Radio 4
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Still Lives by Jon McGregor
A series of short stories from author Jon McGregor, exploring stillness and still lives.
BBC Radio 4
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Status by Carl Honoré
Status. We don't like to talk about it. Carl Honoré brings it out into the open.
BBC Radio 4
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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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The Third Information Crisis by Naomi Alderman
Naomi Alderman argues we are living through the third great information crisis.
BBC Radio 4
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Robert Burns: His Psychotherapy and Cure by Sara Sheridan
A therapist finds herself in conversation with a man claiming to be the poet Robert Burns.
BBC Radio 4
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The Photographer by Max Porter
A life in five photographs. Original fiction series by Max Porter, read by Tim McInnerny.
BBC Radio 4
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The Song Thief by Colin Carberry
An eerie tale of forgotten songs and vengeful spirits by Belfast author Colin Carberry.
BBC Radio 4
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Moving Mountains by Jan Carson
Slemish Mountain, where St Patrick lived, is accidentally sold to a Japanese theme park.
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