In the return of this long-running series, maverick left-wing Labour MP Diane Abbott chooses favourite pieces of writing. Her choices include readings from Vanity Fair and Little Women (she considers both Becky Sharp and Jo Marsh as role models) plus The Way of the World by Congreve, which encapsulates her views on marriage, one character saying: "If I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into a wife." The readers are Burt Caesar and Dona Croll. Producer Jolyon Jenkins