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Julian Barnes - Arthur and George
Clive Merrison reads Julian Barnes' 2005 Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Where Were You...
Five writers build a story around a significant historical event and explore it in fiction
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Helen Simpson - A Bunch of Fives
Selected short stories by award-winning author Helen Simpson
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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The Gothic Imagination
Three original gothic dramas by Lucy Catherine, Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Nancy Harris.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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James Mitchell - Red File for Callan
Ex-killer David Callan is hired for one last hit. Read by Ben Miles.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Lost in the Lanes
Series of short stories set in and around the Lanes of Brighton
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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On the Brink
Short stories looking at the Cuban Missile Crisis through the eyes of ordinary people
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Juliet Ace Monologues
Stories by the prolific radio drama writer, starring Patricia Hodge as Mattie Potter
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Why, Robot?
Series of stories inspired by Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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James Hopkin - A Georgian Trilogy
Short stories by James Hopkin, inspired by his travels in Georgia in autumn 2008
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Kenneth Noye - A Killer on the Run
The life and crimes of notorious London criminal Kenneth Noye.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Arnold Bennett - Anna of the Five Towns
Anna Tellwright inherits a fortune and provokes her father. Stars Charlotte Riley.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Astray
Fact-inspired short stories by Emma Donoghue about travels to, in and from North America
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Na Deich nAitheanta - The Ten Commandments
A series of witty takes on The Ten Commandments
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two Northern Ireland
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The Interview
Five quirky tales inspired by probable and improbable interviews
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Driving ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ for Christmas
New Welsh comedy drama. A dysfunctional family battle their way home to the festivities.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Wales
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Sana Krasikov - One More Year
Illuminating the lives of immigrants from across the terrain of a collapsed Soviet Empire
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Morven Crumlish - Murals
Short stories by Morven Crumlish, inspired by the work of artist Phoebe Anna Traquair
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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It's Grimm Up North
Contemporary re-interpretations of Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales, with a northern twist
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 2
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Anthony Trollope - Miss MacKenzie
Margaret Mackenzie inherited a small fortune and was finally free to seek some happiness.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Rhys Davies Competition Winners
Tales from the winner and runner-up of the Welsh short story contest
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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The Apocalypse Clock
A short story diptych written by the award-winning author Patrick Ness
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Maeve Binchy Short Stories
A selection of stories from the much-loved Irish author Maeve Binchy
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Christmas Diaries
The Christmas story, day-by-day from the perspective of those it first touched.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Chester Himes - Cotton Comes to Harlem
Sixties hard-boiled crime fiction by Chester Himes, part of his Harlem Detective series.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Elizabeth Jane Howard Short Stories
Short stories from English novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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David Constantine - Tea at the Midland
Short stories from one of the London Evening Standard's Books of the Year 2012.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Karen Blixen - Out of Africa
1913: Karen travels to Kenya to start a farm with her new husband. Stars Emma Fielding.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Privates
Drama series following the stories of eight privates in a training depot in 1960.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One
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George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
Dramatisation of George Orwell's classic dystopian novel
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Tony Grounds - How To Write A Novel In A Week
Painter and decorator Jim discovers the key to unlock the novel inside of him.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Elizabeth Taylor - Dangerous Calm
Selected short stories by the British author
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Mary Costello - The China Factory
Short stories from Mary Costello's acclaimed debut collection.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Brian Friel Season
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra celebrates the Irish author with a series of his plays
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone
19th-century detective mystery concerning the disappearance of a seemingly cursed diamond
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Thomas Hardy Short Stories
Tales of the beloved author's inimitable Wessex characters
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Maiden City Stories
Three short stories written to celebrate Derry-Londonderry's status as UK City of Culture
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Minuscule: The Private Life of Insects
French animated shorts exploring all things insects and bugs.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four
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Evelyn Waugh - Scoop
Based on the writer's 1938 satire of sensationalist journalism and foreign correspondence
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
The story of a society which lives close to the rhythms and drumbeats of nature
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra