The Wandering Wombles
Episode 10: The New Burrow
Arrival at the new burrow feels incomplete without the missing Wombles.
Episode 10: 2022
A new, final tenth episode set in 2021, to close the classic serial.
Chapter Eight
E Nesbit’s heart-warming story of three siblings hoping to be reunited with their father.
Imaginary Friendships
Andrew O'Hagan turns to every writer's companions - the friends of the imagination.
10. Decision
Piranesi makes an important decision.
10: For there she was
The final part of Virginia Woolf's classic modernist novel, set over one day in 1923.
Episode Twelve: December
Dr Lucy Maddox shares practical advice from her experience as a clinical psychologist
Chapter 34
Emily Brontë's tempestuous tale of passions, betrayal and retribution on the wild moors.
3. A New World
Winter falls in Iceland as Ines completes her transformation. Read by Penelope Wilton.
5. Another Crack at Lear
King Lear in Ireland and the Bristol Old Vic. Timothy West reads more letters.
Episode 5
Sara Sheridan’s witty and intriguing new story concludes. Read by Elaine C Smith.
New Writers, Short Stories
‘Pandamonium’, ‘On Pearls and the Swine Who Wear Them’
Original short fiction by new writers.
Episode Ten
We move on to a year after the wedding. Can 'The List' finally be put to rest for Ola?
Episode 10 - Adult Dinners and Ugly Crying
Maggie finds some peace at last and the perfect spot to ugly cry.
Chapter 6
A doctor experiments with the duality of human nature, and in doing so creates a monster.
15: The Film
The finale of Daisy Johnson's ghost story series set on the Fens, read by Sara Kestelman.
1: The Barrowbeck Survey
Maxine Peake kicks off ten chilling strange tales from the folk-horror author of The Loney
Chapter 10
The landmark allegory about hypocrisy and corruption of power.
Episode 20
Isabel joins her dying cousin Ralph in London, and she contemplates her future.
10. Return to the Mill
Can love win through the bitterness and conflict?
Chapter 29
Robert Louis Stevenson’s youthful adventure story across high seas and Scottish Highlands
Chapter Seven
Jack London’s tale of one dog's unbreakable spirit and survival in the Alaskan Klondike.
Â鶹ԼÅÄ National Short Story Award 2024
Ghost Kitchen by Ross Raisin
The fifth of the five shortlisted stories in this year's Â鶹ԼÅÄ National Short Story Award.
A Wonderful Catastrophe
How can we cope with the challenges of digital communication?
Episode 7 - Sunday
The final episode in Majella's week and she gets an indecent proposal or two down the pub
Episode Five: The Death of Jack
A life in five photographs. Original fiction series by Max Porter, read by Tim McInnerny.
Chapter 8
George Eliot’s heart-warming tour de force about a weaver’s search for redemption.
Chapter 23
Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece about a young scientist’s quest to create new life.
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Manuel Puig's classic stage play, translated by Allan Baker.
Epilogue
Bernardine Evaristo’s 2019 Booker Prize winning novel. Read by Pippa Bennett-Warner.
