This week's guest presenter is Canadian novelist Carol Shields - perhaps best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Stone Diaries.

The favourite pieces of literature she introduces include: Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, a puzzling fairy tale from childhood with a moral; an unusual love poem from Philip Larkin, An Arundel Tomb (Shields describes the tomb itself and a trip she made on Valentine's Day earlier this year); a poem from her own daughter and one from Sylvia Plath; and a comical extract from Angela Carter's novel Wise Children.

Readings by Anthony Hyde and Eleanor Bron.
(Repeated Sunday 12.15am)