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Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
Meg Mason's achingly funny yet heartbreakingly tender portrait of modern love and life.
BBC Radio 4
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Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
A powerful and moving memoir about growing up as an illegal immigrant in America.
BBC Radio 4
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This Thing of Darkness
Gripping drama inspired by a real forensic psychiatrist and her work in secure prisons.
BBC Radio 4
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Antwerp: the Glory Years by Michael Pye
A history of 16th-century Antwerp from the author of The Edge of the World.
BBC Radio 4
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Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode guide us through the expanding universe of the moving image
BBC Radio 4
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Carl Frampton – A Different League
Boxer Carl Frampton tries some sports, guided by some of the biggest names in the game.
BBC Sounds
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Wintering by Katherine May
A thought-provoking, generous celebration of life's dark seasons and fallow times.
BBC Radio 4
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The Hackers
Gabriella Coleman investigates one of the most misunderstood cultures of the modern world.
BBC Radio 4
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Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Local coal merchant Bill Furlong prepares for Christmas with his wife and five daughters.
BBC Radio 4
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On Seamus Heaney by Roy Foster
Adrian Dunbar reads an eloquent account of one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.
BBC Radio 4
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Harry, Meghan and the Media
Why do you think what you think about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle?
BBC Sounds
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You're Not My Mum: The Stepmum's Side
A frank and sometimes funny chat about the ups and downs of stepmum life.
BBC Radio 5 Live
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The Fly-By-Night by Terry Jones
The enchanting tale of a little girl who goes on a magical adventure.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Maeve Binchy Short Stories (Omnibus)
Five short stories by one of Ireland’s most revered writers.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Joseph and the Three Gifts - An Angel's Story by Brian Sibley
Alex Jennings reads Brian Sibley's imaginative retelling of the Christmas story.
BBC Radio 4
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Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
Actor Stanley Tucci's intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen.
BBC Radio 4
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The Princess Bride
William Goldman's witty cult classic of true love and high adventure.
BBC Radio 4
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Just William - The Great Performer by Richmal Crompton
Laughter on the air with Martin Jarvis and another bunch of five classic exploits.
BBC Radio 4
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Two Minute Tales - A Wish For Christmas
Gyasi Sheppy presents the finalists of the Two Minute Tales short story competition.
BBC Radio Ulster
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The Kyle Walker Podcast
Kyle Walker takes you inside the dressing room to find out what it takes to be a winner.
BBC Radio 5 Live
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Bodies in the Garden: The Wycherley Murders
A true crime story of murder, deceit and an obsession with the golden age of Hollywood.
BBC Radio Nottingham
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The Valley at the Centre of the World by Malachy Tallack (Omnibus)
Two-part omnibus edition of Malachy Tallack's tale of a community living on Shetland.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Past Forward: A Century of Sound
Greg Jenner dives deep into the BBC archive to explore what it says about who we are now.
BBC 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.
BBC Radio 4
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Things You Didn't Know About Pop
Scott Mills goes deep on the unexpected objects that made the Radio 2 playlist.
BBC Sounds
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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.
BBC Radio 4
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The Reveal
Nalini Chetty takes a mischievous peek into unusual and intriguing lives.
BBC Radio Scotland
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Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flyn
A book about abandoned places and what happens when nature is allowed to reclaim them.
BBC Radio 4
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Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Coming of age story set in an Africa increasingly corrupted by colonialism and violence.
BBC 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.
BBC Radio 4
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Oti Mabuse's Dancing Legends
Oti Mabuse explores the extraordinary people who have changed the course of dance.
BBC 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.
BBC Radio 4
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Fairy Meadow
In 1970, a three-year-old girl was abducted. Can the mystery be solved, 50 years on?
BBC 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.
BBC Radio 4
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Worn by Sofi Thanhauser
American author Sofi Thanhauser explores stories of craft and labour through five fabrics.
BBC Radio 4
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Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi
Lea Ypi's account of growing up in communist Albania in the 1980s and 90s.
BBC Radio 4
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Paw Tracks in the Moonlight by Denis O'Connor (Omnibus)
Denis O’Connor’s charming chronicle of one man and his cat. Read by Kevin Whately.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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On Consolation by Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff explores the language of consolation through a series of five portraits
BBC Radio 4
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The Question of Sport Podcast
Amazing stories and surprising facts about sport, with Sam Quek and the QoS team.
BBC Radio 5 Live
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The Collection
The Collection explores some of the world's most exciting record collections.
BBC Radio 6 Music
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Treeline by Ben Rawlence
Ben Rawlence's unflinching account of what the moving treeline will mean for humanity.
BBC Radio 4
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Violets by Alex Hyde
Two women navigate war and motherhood in a lyrical story of love, loss and courage.
BBC Radio 4
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Metaphysical Animals by Clare MacCumhaill and Rachael Wiseman
How four brilliant women brought philosophy back to life in Second-World-War Oxford.
BBC Radio 4
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If Blackburn Signed Zidane
Specs Gonzalez investigates football's greatest 'What If?' moments.
BBC Sounds
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