Chapter Four
Lewis Carroll’s curiouser and curiouser tale of a girl discovering a strange new world.
1: The Barrowbeck Survey
Maxine Peake kicks off ten chilling strange tales from the folk-horror author of The Loney
A Wonderful Catastrophe
How can we cope with the challenges of digital communication?
Episode 10
Jenny is feeling more hopeful, and a new living arrangement brings new happiness.
Letters from South Africa
Johannesburg
Five letters from South African writers about life there in the week of the ANC elections.
Episode 5
Sara Sheridan’s witty and intriguing new story concludes. Read by Elaine C Smith.
Epilogue
Bernardine Evaristo’s 2019 Booker Prize winning novel. Read by Pippa Bennett-Warner.
10. Return to the Mill
Can love win through the bitterness and conflict?
10: The Scoresheet
Shocking revelations on the village green in the final story in a new series for Radio 4.
5: Three Coins
A trip to the Trevi Fountain helps a young woman re-assess her life.
A Celebration of the Short Story
Araby by James Joyce
James Joyce’s story from Dubliners about a boy enchanted by a woman and a utopian bazaar.
Status. We don’t like to talk about it. Carl Honoré brings it out into the open.
Alice Munro - Too Much Happiness
Free Radicals
A newly widowed woman must look to the wife she replaced when a stranger threatens her.
Great Escape(s)
The big day is here, and Violetta isn't the only one getting out of Portobello.
Dylan and Rowenna have to find a way to bridge the silence between them.
In this final episode will Maeve escape her small town to London?
Daisy Buchanan's raucously comic satire on the dark side of life on glossy magazines.
Episode Five: The Death of Jack
A life in five photographs. Original fiction series by Max Porter, read by Tim McInnerny.
Episode 10: Second Chances
A mini break denouement...
Barack Obama Talks to David Olusoga
Former President Barack Obama is interviewed by historian and broadcaster David Olusoga.
Episode Eight
Bryan Moriarty’s candid, funny and heartbreaking rom com about having an open relationship
5. Vesper Flights
Helen Macdonald celebrates and learns life lessons from swifts.
On The Island
Adam Courting reads a new Christmas story from Alexander McCall Smith.
Part Two: Chapter Two
Jonathan Swift’s satire following Lemuel Gulliver’s strange travels through odd lands.
7. Days of Hope
Abi Morgan's memoir concludes as summer seas point to new hope and promises for her family
Part Three
Edith Wharton’s novella about a young man attempting to escape a loveless marriage.
It's Me Who Keeps the Bird's Heart Beating by Luke Sutherland
In this haunting tale, Regina overcomes muteness with some help from the afterlife...
Dimple is armed with another plan, having been brought closer to her four half-siblings.
Arawn And Her Dogs by Eluned Gramich
A Welsh teenager's kindness to an old woman takes a twist. Part 5 of 5 modern folktales.
Chapter 23
Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece about a young scientist’s quest to create new life.
