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Start the Week

AL Kennedy and David Sedaris on matters of the heart

Duration: 43 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Tom Sutcliffe discusses love and self-love with AL Kennedy, Lavinia Greenlaw, David Sedaris and Simon Blackburn. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
AL Kennedy
Interviewed Guest:
Lavinia Greenlaw
Interviewed Guest:
David Sedaris
Interviewed Guest:
Simon Blackburn
Producer:
Katy Hickman

Open Book

Lavinia Greenlaw, Venezuelan literature, The case for graphic novels

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Lavinia Greenlaw on her new novel, The City of Love's Sleep; the state of Venezuelan literature in a country of conflict; graphic novels and the rise of the author read audio book. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Lavinia Greenlaw
Interviewed Guest:
John Harris

Front Row

Armistead Maupin; Folio Prize shortlist; Her; Raphael Wallfisch

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

John Wilson talks to American writer Armistead Maupin about his new Tales of the City book; Lavinia Greenlaw on the Folio Prize shortlist; new film Her; cellist Raphael Wallfisch. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Armistead Maupin
Interviewed Guest:
Toby Litt
Interviewed Guest:
Lavinia Greenlaw
Interviewed Guest:
Raphael Wallfisch

Front Row

Atlantis; Michael Morpurgo; Hannah Arendt; BBC National Short Story Award

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

A review of the new family drama Atlantis, an interview with Michael Morpurgo on the eve of his 70th birthday, and Lavinia Greenlaw on her BBC Short Story Award contender. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Michael Morpurgo
Interviewed Guest:
Lavinia Greenlaw
Producer:
Ellie Bury

Drama on 4

Lavinia Greenlaw - The Chess Girls

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

True drama documentary on how two world-beating chess-playing sisters were trained. With real parents Laszlo and Klara Polgar. Show more

BBC National Short Story Award

BBC National Short Story Award 2016

The Darkest Place in England

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

By Lavinia Greenlaw. Shortlisted tale about a teenage girl on a deep dark moor who is drawn into a different darkness. Read by Kate O'Flynn. Show more

Front Row

The Magnificent Seven, Suzan-Lori Parks, Paul Muldoon, BBC National Short Story Award

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks on her slave drama. Plus what cinema owes to the plot of The Magnificent Seven, Paul Muldoon on life and poetry, and Lavinia Greenlaw. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Suzan-Lori Parks
Interviewed Guest:
Paul Muldoon
Interviewed Guest:
Lavinia Greenlaw
Interviewed Guest:
Catherine Bray
Producer:
Marilyn Rust

BBC National Short Story Award

BBC National Short Story Award 2013

Episode 5: We Are Watching Something Terrible Happening

Duration: 20 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

By Lavinia Greenlaw. Love and science collide in this haunting story about a disintegrating relationship, a civil war and the trajectory of meteorites. Read by Claire Skinner. Show more

Drama on 4

Lavinia Greenlaw - The Icelandic Journals

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

4 Extra Debut. At the height of his fame, William Morris left his philandering wife for Iceland, to find out how to live. Stars Joseph Millson. From November 2013. Show more

Contributors

William Morris:
Joseph Millson
Georgiana Burne-Jones:
Lyndsey Marshal
Erik Magnusson:
Harry August
Dante Gabriel Rossetti:
Dominic Geraghty
Edward Burne-Jones:
Matthew Gravelle
Producer:
Kate McAll

Genres

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for years

Five dramas exploring ancient ideas about malaria, and scientific attempts to defeat the deadly disease. Stars Siobhan Redmond. Show more

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for years

Five dramas about Malaria, and scientific attempts to defeat the deadly disease: bad air and bad water. Stars Siobhan Redmond. Show more

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for years

Five dramas about Malaria, and scientific attempts to defeat the deadly disease: the canal and mosquito. Stars Siobhan Redmond. Show more

Lavinia Greenlaw - Five Fever Tales

5. Emergency Prescriptions Kept Up One's Sleeve

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for years

Five dramas about Malaria, and scientific attempts to defeat the deadly disease: the best old ideas. Stars Siobhan Redmond. Show more

Lavinia Greenlaw - Five Fever Tales

2. The Wrongly Named Tree

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for years

Five dramas about Malaria, and scientific attempts to defeat the deadly disease: a countess and quinine. Stars Siobhan Redmond. Show more