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Jane Gardam Stories
Adaptations of remarkable tales by the multi-award-winning British author.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Sitters' Stories
Short story series. Characters from famous paintings get a chance to tell their story.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Haunted Road by Eoin McNamee
A police camera operator assists a colleague in the hunt for a missing woman.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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The Hot Kid
Dramatic adaptation of Elmore Leonard's crime novel, set during America's Great Depression
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Anne Tyler - Ladder of Years (Omnibus)
The story of a woman who makes a sudden change in her life
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Copenhagen Curios
Three stories by Heidi Amsinck set in Copenhagen antique shops, places full of curiosity.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Julia Darling - Appointments
Story about a woman's response to being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Stories by Teffi
Series of tales by Teffi, a literary star in pre-revolutionary Russia.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Liars' League
Series of three tales recorded at the Liars' League short story events.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Wish You Weren't Here...
Short stories by three top writers about that awkward person one would rather not meet.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Sarah Hall - Wolf Border Omnibus
Sarah Hall's compelling novel about wilderness, family, power and love
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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The Great Western Adventure
Five short stories inspired by structures created by Isambard Kingdom Brunel
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Owen Sheers - I Saw a Man (Omnibus)
Owen Sheers' story of how a new neighbourly friendship can turn wrong
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Mr Maugham's Journey ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½
Cruising home from the Far East, Somerset Maugham's tales of some passengers
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Yeats: The Man and the Echo
Three Irish writers choose three WB Yeats poems as inspiration for a story.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Odyssey
Three strangers' lives collide when they uncover an international military conspiracy.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two
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A Pocketful of Rye
Series of three stories set in and around Rye in East Sussex.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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The Computer Speaks
Series of three short stories about computers finding their voice
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Tender Is the Night: A Romance
F Scott Fitzgerald's beautiful, poignant novel about marriage, glamour and disintegration.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Rachel's Cousins
By Ann Marie Di Mambro. Drama about a family who share the BRCA2 cancer gene.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Joe Smith and His Waxworks
Short stories about a travelling showman's life in mid-Victorian England.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Paul Murray - The Mark and the Void
Claude is being stalked by Paul, who is certain he has found the star of his new novel
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Simon Mawer - Tightrope
Political alliances forged during WWII give way to the moral uncertainties of the Cold War
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Angielski
Three short stories that offer some different angles on the Polish experience in London
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Tessa Hadley - The Past (Omnibus)
Secrets, misunderstandings and passion played out over one hot summer. Omnibus editions.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Miranda July - No One Belongs Here More Than You
Short stories by the US director, producer, artist and writer
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Baroness Orczy - The Scarlet Pimpernel
Damian Lewis narrates an eight-part adaptation of the adventure by Baroness Orczy
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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The Price of Oil
Season of factual dramas exploring the history of oil and the price we have paid for it.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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William Boyd - Sweet Caress
William Boyd's novel follows one remarkable woman through the decades of the 20th century.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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The Enduring Land - Extracts from Sunset Song
Three extracts from Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel of Scottish rural life
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Five Stories by Penelope Fitzgerald
Series of short stories by the Booker Prize-winner
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Sascha Arango - Reading Europe: The Truth and Other Lies Omnibus
Omnibus editions of Radio 4's trip across Europe, exploring what the continent is reading
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Nights of the Hunter
Series of stories that dwell in the shadows about pursuers and the pursued
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Rebecca F John - Clown's Shoes
Debut short story collection from writer Rebecca F John
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Steve Chambers - Victoria Station
Series set in a bustling Midlands railway station in the Victorian era
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Capital
Drama. The people of one South London street all receive the same anonymous postcard.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One
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e=mc2
Short stories written to mark the centenary of Einstein's general theory of relativity.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Ruth Rendell - Dark Corners (Omnibus)
Adaptation of Ruth Rendell's final, posthumously published novel.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Michael Frayn's Matchbox Theatre
Short entertainments based on Frayn's acclaimed book of comic dialogues and monologues
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Kipling in Love
Short dramas based on short stories written by Rudyard Kipling.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Jeremy Irons reads TS Eliot's classic verse collection
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4