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A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens
BBC Radio 4 · Reviewing Ella McCay plus the film's… · Dec 11, 2025
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How to Write a Novel

by Aaron Burch
BBC Radio 4 · Front Row remembers Tom Stoppard · Dec 1, 2025
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A Better Paradise

by Dan Houser
BBC Radio 4 · The lead writer of Grand Theft Auto, Dan Houser… · Nov 26, 2025
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Box Hill

by Adam Mars-Jones
BBC Radio 4 · Review Show: Blue Moon film plus Turner and… · Nov 27, 2025
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A Woman of Opinion

by Mary Wortley Montagu
BBC Radio 4 · Composer Sir John Rutter · Dec 3, 2025
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A Little Trickerie

by Rosanna Pike
BBC Radio 4 · Updating A Christmas Carol; new sculpture… · Dec 2, 2025
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A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens
BBC Radio 4 · Updating A Christmas Carol; new sculpture… · Dec 2, 2025
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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

by Marina Lewycka
BBC Radio 4 · Updating A Christmas Carol; new sculpture… · Dec 2, 2025
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Eleanor the Great

by Scarlett Johansson
BBC Radio 4 · 96-year-old actress June Squibb on her lead role… · Dec 10, 2025
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The Eleventh Hour

by Salman Rushdie
BBC Radio 4 · Review Show: Bugonia, Salman Rushdie stories, The… · Oct 30, 2025
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The Line of Beauty

by Alan Hollinghurst
BBC Radio 4 · Review Show: Bugonia, Salman Rushdie stories, The… · Oct 30, 2025
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Denouement

by John Morton
BBC Radio 4 · Live from Derry: two of the stars of police drama… · Oct 29, 2025
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The Land of Sweet Forever

by Harper Lee
BBC Radio 4 · Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere - Tom and… · Oct 22, 2025
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Gone Before Goodbye

by Harlan Coben
BBC Radio 4 · Reese Witherspoon on her novel and Colin Farrell… · Oct 27, 2025
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Instructions

by Nathan Ellis
BBC Radio 4 · Richard Ashcroft on his new album · Oct 14, 2025
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Take Four Books and Scotland from the Sky

by James Crawford
BBC Radio 4 · Richard Ashcroft on his new album · Oct 14, 2025
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

by Edward Albee
BBC Radio 4 · Cathy Tyson on Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? · Oct 19, 2025
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Flesh

by David Szalay
BBC Radio 4 · Cathy Tyson on Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? · Oct 19, 2025
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The Rest of Our Lives

by Ben Markovits
BBC Radio 4 · Lang Lang plays in studio · Oct 12, 2025
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Piano Book

by Lang Lang
BBC Radio 4 · Lang Lang plays in studio · Oct 12, 2025
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Piano Book 2

by Lang Lang
BBC Radio 4 · Lang Lang plays in studio · Oct 12, 2025
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The Widow

by John Grisham
BBC Radio 4 · John Grisham on his new thriller, The Widow · Oct 21, 2025
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Jean Rhys

by Jean Rhys
BBC Radio 4 · Sam Ryder performs live · Oct 13, 2025
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Frankenstein

by Guillermo Del Toro
BBC Radio 4 · Guillermo Del Toro discusses his new Frankenstein… · Oct 15, 2025
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Virgin

by Hollie McNish
BBC Radio 4 · Guillermo Del Toro discusses his new Frankenstein… · Oct 15, 2025
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Flashlight

by Susan Choi
BBC Radio 4 · Tamsin Greig on her role in Sally Wainwright's… · Oct 7, 2025
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Flashlight

by Susan Choi
BBC Radio 4 · All the authors shortlisted for the Booker Prize… · Nov 10, 2025
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The Rest of Our Lives

by Ben Markovits
BBC Radio 4 · All the authors shortlisted for the Booker Prize… · Nov 10, 2025
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Audition

by Katie Kitamura
BBC Radio 4 · All the authors shortlisted for the Booker Prize… · Nov 10, 2025
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The Land in Winter

by Andrew Miller
BBC Radio 4 · All the authors shortlisted for the Booker Prize… · Nov 10, 2025
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Flesh

by David Szalay
BBC Radio 4 · All the authors shortlisted for the Booker Prize… · Nov 10, 2025
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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

by Kiran Desai
BBC Radio 4 · All the authors shortlisted for the Booker Prize… · Nov 10, 2025
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Shadow Ticket

by Thomas Pynchon
BBC Radio 4 · Review Show: I Swear film and The Poems of Seamus… · Oct 8, 2025
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The Poems of Seamus Heaney

by Seamus Heaney
BBC Radio 4 · Review Show: I Swear film and The Poems of Seamus… · Oct 8, 2025
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The Silver Book

by Olivia Laing
BBC Radio 4 · Sydney Sweeney and Pasolini · Nov 25, 2025
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Othello

by William Shakespeare
BBC Radio 4 · Daniel Day Lewis on his return to the big screen · Nov 6, 2025
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Dead and Alive

by Zadie Smith
BBC Radio 4 · Zadie Smith and Brenda Blethyn live in studio · Nov 3, 2025
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The Land in Winter

by Andrew Miller
BBC Radio 4 · Zadie Smith and Brenda Blethyn live in studio · Nov 3, 2025
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Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

by Max Porter
BBC Radio 4 · Benedict Cumberbatch on The Thing with Feathers · Nov 5, 2025
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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

by Kiran Desai
BBC Radio 4 · Winner of the 2025 Booker Prize announced live… · Nov 10, 2025
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The Rest of Our Lives

by Ben Markovits
BBC Radio 4 · Winner of the 2025 Booker Prize announced live… · Nov 10, 2025
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Flashlight

by Susan Choi
BBC Radio 4 · Winner of the 2025 Booker Prize announced live… · Nov 10, 2025
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Flesh

by David Szalay
BBC Radio 4 · Winner of the 2025 Booker Prize announced live… · Nov 10, 2025
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Audition

by Katie Kitamura
BBC Radio 4 · Winner of the 2025 Booker Prize announced live… · Nov 10, 2025
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The Land in Winter

by Andrew Miller
BBC Radio 4 · Winner of the 2025 Booker Prize announced live… · Nov 10, 2025
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Rabbit, Run

by John Updike
BBC Radio 4 · Edgar Wright on The Running Man · Nov 11, 2025
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The Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum
BBC Radio 4 · Actors Bryan Cranston and Marianne Jean-Baptiste… · Nov 17, 2025
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All My Sons

by Arthur Miller
BBC Radio 4 · Actors Bryan Cranston and Marianne Jean-Baptiste… · Nov 17, 2025
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Wicked: For Good

by Gregory Maguire
BBC Radio 4 · Actors Bryan Cranston and Marianne Jean-Baptiste… · Nov 17, 2025
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The Death of Bunny Munro

by Nick Cave
BBC Radio 4 · Review Show: The Death of Bunny Munro; TV… · Nov 20, 2025
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Nuremberg

by Unknown
BBC Radio 4 · We review The Hunger Games on stage, Nuremberg on… · Nov 13, 2025
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The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins
BBC Radio 4 · We review The Hunger Games on stage, Nuremberg on… · Nov 13, 2025
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Train Dreams

by Denis Johnson
BBC Radio 4 · Actor Joel Edgerton on his new film Train Dreams · Nov 19, 2025
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Lessons in Chemistry

by Bonnie Garmus
BBC Radio 4 · Women in Science and Unexpected Careers · Nov 2, 2024
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The Woman in Me

by Britney Spears
BBC Radio 4 · Celebrity Memoirs and Truth-Telling · Nov 12, 2024
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

by Gabrielle Zevin
BBC Radio 4 · The Art of Game Design in Literature · Nov 15, 2024