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Really Good, Actually
Soon to be divorced Maggie is completely fine. Really Good, Actually.
BBC Radio 4
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O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
A glittering, gothic and surreal coming-of-age story with a deadly twist.
BBC Radio 4
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The Young Accomplice by Benjamin Wood
A story of opportunity and good intentions by Benjamin Wood. Read by Rupert Evans.
BBC 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
BBC 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.
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 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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The List by Yomi Adegoke
Yomi Adegoke's fast-paced and addictive novel tackling the moral dilemmas of social media
BBC 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.
BBC Radio 4
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Special readings from Orwell's dystopian classic, now celebrating its 75th anniversary.
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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Money by David McWilliams
Economist David McWilliams charts the relationship between humans and money.
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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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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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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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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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 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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Underdogs by Joel Budd
Joel Budd explores the myths around the stereotype of the 'white working class'.
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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Disco by Nick Walker
Defence: Serious Case Operations investigate the murder of a military bandsman in Burnley.
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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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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Speed of Light by Laura Cumming
Laura Cumming explores a 19th-century technological revolution in photography.
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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Humanwatch
Marjolein Robertson and Gareth Waugh explore the fascinating world of Humans.
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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The Ireland Rugby Social Podcast
Rugby insight - featuring inside stories, big names and expert analysis.
BBC Radio Ulster
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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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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 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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The Whale, Secrets of a Stranding
A whale washed up on a Cornish coast, its head was removed to a secret location.
BBC Radio Cornwall
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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 Wedding Suit by Rachel Joyce
A specially commissioned five-part serial by best-selling novelist Rachel Joyce.
BBC Radio 4
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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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Nobody's Perfect by Lionel Shriver
A specially commissioned story from American author Lionel Shriver.
BBC Radio 4
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A History of Mystery by Cal Flyn
Writer Cal Flyn explores the profound power of mystery and the provocation of the unknown.
BBC Radio 4
