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The Coming Storm
America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Viewfinders: Ways of Seeing at 50
Five writers on looking at pictures, in celebration of John Berger's 1972 TV series.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie
Grace is on a mission: to kill off her relatives. Bella Mackie’s darkly comic novel.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Bright Lights, Dead City
An American film crew descends on a Northern Irish city to make a lavish drama series.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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It's Always Summer Somewhere by Felix White
Felix White's funny and moving memoir about cricket, grief and life in The Maccabees.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Sian Thomas reads Virginia Woolf's classic modernist novel, set over one day in 1923.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Our Friends in the North
Peter Flannery's own adaptation of his highly acclaimed TV series for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Raven Smith's Men
A hilarious look at men and all they entail from professional man-about-town Raven Smith.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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How One Becomes Lonely
Luke Sutherland's tale of lost love, cowardice and connection in an online world.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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This is Not a Pity Memoir by Abi Morgan
Abi Morgan's powerful memoir about how life can change in an instant.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Redemption: My Story by Troy Deeney
A powerful memoir from footballer and anti-racism campaigner Troy Deeney.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Accidents and Emergencies
Powerful short story series by Sarah Moss set on a hospital ward over one long weekend.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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People Person by Candice Carty-Williams
The story of Dimple Pennington, wannabe lifestyle influencer, and her four half siblings
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Three Fires
This fiction serial from Denise Mina turns a contemporary eye on Renaissance-era Florence.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Expectation Effect by David Robson
A fascinating scientific guide to why looking on the bright side really is good for you.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Commonwealth Stories
Newly commissioned stories from three recent winners of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Careering by Daisy Buchanan
A wry, caustic look at how your dream job can turn into a nightmare and eat you alive.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Brown Girl Like Me by Jaspreet Kaur
An honest, unflinching account of life for South Asian women and girls in the UK today.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Factory Girls by Michelle Gallen
A teenager dreams of escaping a divided Northern Irish town in the 1990s.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Maid by Nita Prose
A whodunnit and a portrait of a very ordinary life which suddenly becomes extraordinary.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Really Good, Actually
Soon to be divorced Maggie is completely fine. Really Good, Actually.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
A glittering, gothic and surreal coming-of-age story with a deadly twist.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Sounds Like Fun by Bryan Moriarty
Bryan Moriarty’s candid, funny and heartbreaking rom com about having an open relationship
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Maame by Jessica George
The story of a young woman finding her own voice, and her own place in the world.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang
Rebecca F Kuang’s deliciously dark, witty thriller with a deeply flawed narrator
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Year of the Cat by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
A memoir of past trauma, the pandemic and a new pet.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The List by Yomi Adegoke
Yomi Adegoke's fast-paced and addictive novel tackling the moral dilemmas of social media
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Future by Naomi Alderman
A new novel from the author of The Power set in a future we could be heading to very soon.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Special readings from Orwell's dystopian classic, now celebrating its 75th anniversary.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Kindness of Strangers by Kerry Hudson
Author Kerry Hudson explores the many faces of kindness at difficult times in her life.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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On Friendship by Andrew O'Hagan
Essays on friendship from one of the most incisive chroniclers of contemporary Britain.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Money by David McWilliams
Economist David McWilliams charts the relationship between humans and money.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4