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Moving Mountains by Jan Carson
Slemish Mountain, where St Patrick lived, is accidentally sold to a Japanese theme park.
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Golden Eggs
British Asian writers take traditional stories and rework them in contemporary settings.
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For Human Consumption
Three stories about people connected to The Fork, a pay-what-you-feel cafe.
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On Portobello Prom
Sara Sheridan's charming story of young love, big decisions and life on Portobello Prom.
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Breaking Mississippi
The explosive inside story of one man's war against racial segregation in the 1960s.
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Voices in the Valley
Strange tales set in an isolated village on the Yorkshire/Lancashire border.
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The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight
Sam Knight's bestseller about the true reported premonitions of disasters in the 1960s.
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Stories from Ukraine
Short stories taken from the anthology 'Love in Defiance of Pain: Ukrainian Stories'
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The Maid by Nita Prose
A whodunnit and a portrait of a very ordinary life which suddenly becomes extraordinary.
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This is Not a Pity Memoir by Abi Morgan
Abi Morgan's powerful memoir about how life can change in an instant.
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Hulda's Cafe
By Tiffany Murray. Five tales from Grindavik, the happiest town in Iceland, apparently.
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Commonwealth Stories
Newly commissioned stories from three recent winners of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize
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Three Fires
This fiction serial from Denise Mina turns a contemporary eye on Renaissance-era Florence.
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Accidents and Emergencies
Powerful short story series by Sarah Moss set on a hospital ward over one long weekend.
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How One Becomes Lonely
Luke Sutherland's tale of lost love, cowardice and connection in an online world.
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Our Friends in the North
Peter Flannery's own adaptation of his highly acclaimed TV series for Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ 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.
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Bright Lights, Dead City
An American film crew descends on a Northern Irish city to make a lavish drama series.
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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.
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Gambits
Short story series by Eley Williams set in what might seem like an ordinary Essex village.
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Slime: A Natural History by Susanne Wedlich
A ground-breaking journey through the three-billion-year history of slime.
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New Frequencies
Showcasing short stories by writers between the ages of 16 and 21.
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Wolverine Blues
A schoolboy's passion for music sets him on a collision course with his father.
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The Chronicles of Burke Street
Brilliantly funny short stories set in Trinidad by award-winning author Ingrid Persaud.
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A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Barack Obama reads from the gripping first volume of his presidential memoirs.
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Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee
Alex Jennings reads this vivid new biography of one of theatre's leading playwrights.
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Authors Live
Live webcasts featuring some of the biggest names writing books for children today.
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Blackwater by Claire McGowan
A multi-voiced dark story about secrets and lies in a small town
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Maya Angelou's Autobiographies
Dramatisations of Maya Angelou's evocative and life-affirming autobiographies.
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The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú
Francisco Cantú recounts his experiences of policing the US-Mexican border.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
James Joyce's autobiographical modernist masterpiece. Read by Andrew Scott.
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Give Me Space Below My Feet
Is it possible to take 93-year-old mountaineer Gwen Moffat climbing again?
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The Diaries of Adrian Mole
Harry McEntire reads Sue Townsend's hilarious diaries of Adrian Mole.
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The Poet and the Echo
Short story series in which writers choose poems as inspiration for new stories.
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EF Benson - The Terror by Night
Inexplicable moods and smells mar a friendly reunion. What can it mean? Read by Brian Gear
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Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald
Human dramas unfold behind the scenes of Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ radio news in the wartime London of 1940.
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Sounds Like London: 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital
Lloyd Bradley tells the story of black music in the capital
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The Ice Mountain
Haunted by the sinking of RMS Titanic, this is a story of a fictional iceberg's journey.
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The Diary of a Nobody
Arthur Lowe reads a comic masterpiece of middle-class self-importance in Victorian Britain
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Flush by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf's whimsical biography of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel, Flush
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