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Stories to Keep Space for on the Bookshelves

1000 Coils of Fear

Tom Smith reads Olivia Wenzel’s novel, which was longlisted for 2020's German Book Prize.

• 14 mins

Walking the Causeways

Patrick Gale

Five writers walk the beguiling routes of tidal causeways. Today, St Michael’s Mount.

• 14 mins

Walking the Causeways

Evie Wyld

Five writers walk the beguiling routes of tidal causeways. Today, the Isle of Wight.

• 14 mins

Walking the Causeways

Claire McGowan

Five writers walk us along the beguiling routes of tidal causeways. Today, Burgh Island.

• 14 mins

Walking the Causeways

WN Herbert

Five writers walk the beguiling routes of tidal causeways. Today, Lindisfarne.

• 14 mins

Walking the Causeways

Ben Cottam

Five writers take us along the routes of tidal causeways. Today, Sunderland Point.

• 14 mins

Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea: Wales and its Coastal Waters

Out to Open Water

Jon Gower explores the relationship between Wales and the Irish Sea.

• 14 mins

Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea: Wales and its Coastal Waters

Whipping Up a Storm

How the water west of Wales is a bringer of bounteous gifts but a wrecker of ships too.

• 14 mins

Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea: Wales and its Coastal Waters

Putting the Whales in Wales

Jon Gower tells the story of the arrival of American Quaker émigrés at Milford Haven.

• 14 mins

Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea: Wales and its Coastal Waters

Shearwater Nights

Jon Gower gives an account of a rare species of bird found on the Welsh coastal islands.

• 14 mins

Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea: Wales and its Coastal Waters

What Has the Sea Become

Jon Gower recounts how the herring trade has brought Wales great fortune over the years.

• 14 mins

Re: Cycling

My Life on a Bike

Writer Andrew Martin casts an affectionate eye over his long and colourful cycling career.

• 14 mins

Re: Cycling

The Cyclist as Overdog and Underdog

Andrew Martin considers the changing politics of cycling over the ages.

• 14 mins

Re: Cycling

Cycling Apparel

Andrew Martin examines the intriguingly flamboyant history of cycling attire.

• 14 mins

Re: Cycling

A Bike Ride

Andrew Martin and his bike catch a train to Derby to enjoy a long leisurely country cycle.

• 14 mins

Re: Cycling

Reasons to Cycle

There’s never been a better time to get on our bikes insists cycling devotee Andrew Martin

• 14 mins

A family of witches

Emma Whipday explores the demonisation of single mothers in English witch trials.

• 14 mins

Fugitive slaves, Victorian justice

Oskar Jensen tells the tall tale of a court case inspired by a best-selling novel

• 13 mins

Children of the Waters

Sabina Dosani looks at the ritual of Mizuko Kuyo and modern ceremonies marking miscarriage

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2022

The South African Bloomsberries

Jade Munslow Ong reads 20s writing by Solomon T Plaatje, Roy Campbell and William Plomer.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2022

Charles Babbage and broadcasting the sea

The father of modern computing thought the sea could communicate. Joan Passey tells us why

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2022

A family of witches

Emma Whipday explores the demonisation of single mothers in English witch trials.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2022

Fugitive slaves, Victorian justice

Oskar Jensen tells the tall tale of a court case inspired by a best-selling novel.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2022

Revolutionary free speech

Clare Siviter looks at attempts to liberate and then censor expression in 1790s France.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2022

The discordant tale of Thomas Weelkes

Ellie Chan looks at the life and music of the Tudor composer who died 400 years ago.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2022

Children of the Waters

Sabina Dosani on the ritual of Mizuko Kuyo and modern ceremonies marking miscarriage.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2022

Stupid Victorians

Louise Creechan looks at the impact of 19th-century ideas about intelligence.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2022

Land and soil politics

Jim Scown on the links between Goethe, George Eliot and the storming of the US Capitol.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers 2022

Fighting the colour bar

Shirin Hirsch explores the way boxer Len Johnson fought a Manchester pub ban.

• 14 mins

Reading the First Folio

Sir Richard Eyre on King Lear

Director Richard Eyre chooses a speech by Lear to his daughter Cordelia - Act 5, Scene 3.

• 14 mins