Tao Lin's curious tale about an elderly prisoner in 2042 who depicts a society addicted to sleep. Read by Peter Marinker. From June 2014. Show more
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Edna continues to be enraptured by Robert’s company, but there’s a shock in store for her. Kate Chopin's novel which shook the US in 1899 starring Pippa Bennett-Warner. Show more
Gregor Samsa's life is dominated by routine until he awakes one morning to find himself transformed. Starring Tom Basden. Show more
Drama on 4
Ben Lewis - Tiny
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra
Quirky comedy about a teenager who becomes an internet star because of his nightly good-news webcasts. With Joshua Jenkins, Julia McKenzie, Mark Heap. Show more
Free Thinking
Breaking Free: Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
William Boyd, Margaret Drabble and Philipp Blom join Matthew Sweet to discuss one of the masterpieces of 20th-century European fiction, Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities. Show more
Free Thinking
Landmark: Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu
44 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Matthew Sweet and his guests, Jane Smiley, Jane Haynes, Christopher Prendergast and Marie Darrieussecq, explore Proust's great novel In Search of Lost Time. Show more
Drama series set in a health centre. Ayesha wakes up with Sid but during the day finds his attention too much. Howard feels inspired after meeting an old friend. Show more
With Great Pleasure
Jonathan Coe
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Novelist Jonathan Coe, author of What a Carve Up! and The Rotters' Club, presents his favourite pieces of writing to an audience at the Birmingham Literature Festival. Show more
Old Grace is convinced strange things have started to happen since the new telegraph machine was installed. Stars Joseph Kloska. Show more
1937, Morwenna is bored of island life as locals battle to resist attempts to modernise the post office. Stars Alex Tregear. Show more
1937: On a remote Isles of Scilly island, the locals resist attempts to modernise their post office. Stars Joseph Kloska. Show more
Morwenna is trying to improve herself and Frank needs a lesson in island economics. Starring Joseph Kloska and Alex Tregear. Show more
It's 1848 and the revolution comes to Lubeck. The story of a German merchant family. Stars Michael Maloney and Barbara Flynn. Show more
Poetry Please
Poems for Dark Days
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' requests for poems for the dark days of winter and for times of political or personal darkness. Show more
Poetry Please
Birmingham Literature Festival
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Roger McGough presents a request edition on stage at the Birmingham Literature Festival as audience members pick their favourite poems. Show more
Poetry Please
Milosz and Dickinson
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Roger McGough presents a selection of poems by Czeslaw Milosz and Emily Dickinson, read by Peter Marinker and Eleanor Tremain. Show more
A macabre retelling of the Pied Piper story by John Connolly, author of The Book of Lost Things, Nocturnes and the bestselling Charlie Parker mysteries. Read by Peter Marinker. Show more
At the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK receives some remarkable advice. Read by Colin Stinton and Richard Laing. Show more
At the time of his inauguration, JFK was lauded by a famous poet. Read by Colin Stinton and Richard Laing. Show more
Mike Walker updates Arthur Hugh Clough's Victorian poem sequence of missed opportunities, moving the action from the Rome of 1848 to the Egypt of 2011. Show more