Nicola Walker is back as Annika Strandhed! Since we last met her, Annika has been promoted, given a new speedboat and her son, Tor, is about to start school. Don’t miss these 8 new cases – that will test her physically and emotionally as never before – every Sunday (from 19th Aug’18) on BBC Radio 4 at 19:45 for 8 weeks!
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This Friday’s short work on BBC Radio 4 is a specially-commissioned story by the short story writer, dramatist and screenwriter Robert Shearman.
A man, believing himself to have died, is in for a big surprise. Miles Jupp reads ‘Unfinished‘, Friday (13th July’18) at 15:45…
Next Monday to Thursday (9th-12th July’18) and the following Monday (16th July’18), we have a new series of Murder, Mystery and Suspense on BBC Radio 4 EXTRA! Tim McInnerny reads five stories from Heidi Amsinck’s new collection ‘Last Train To Helsingør‘. In our first tale, ‘The Man Upstairs’, everyone has heard their neighbour in the top flat, but no-one has ever seen him…
Next Monday to Friday (2nd-6th July’18) at 14:45, BBC Radio 4 EXTRA are repeating ‘19:13: The Year before The Storm‘ – our Book Of The Week from July 2013, read by Michael Maloney! Adapted from the book by Florian Illies, ‘1913’ is an exploration of key twentieth-century figures and the genesis of social, political and artistic movements in Europe in the year before the First World War…
Radio 4 are repeating ‘Copenhagen Curios‘ from 2015! Antiques loom large in these three strange tales by Heidi Amsinck – commissioned specially for Radio 4 – starting with ‘The Bird In The Cage’ read by Tim McInnerny, this Sunday (10th June’18) at 19:45…
Starting next Monday (4th June’18) at 22:45 on Radio 4, Cherrelle Skeete reads our new Book at Bedtime – ‘Future Home of the Living God‘ by Louise Erdrich; a dystopian thriller where evolution has gone in to reverse…
Next Monday – Wednesday (21st-23rd May’18) at 11am, BBC Radio 4 EXTRA are repeating ‘Short Rides In Fast Machines‘ – a set of three stories about speed commissioned specially for BBC Radio in 2014…
Don’t miss our new drama this Monday at 14:15 on BBC Radio 4! ‘From Marginal to Mainstream‘ is the true story of a group of four remarkable women. Victims of trafficking, Gloria, Alice, India and Teresa’s lives were to change forever when they signed up for a theatre workshop led by director Caryne Chapman Clark who narrates…
BBC Radio 4 Extra are repeating Julian Simpson’s ‘Fugue State‘ – an original drama inspired by a series of talks and workshops at the Wellcome Trust, based around the latest thinking on how the human brain processes inputs – how it builds a model of the world, which we call reality, based on sensory information and our prediction of what we are expecting to see, hear or feel… catch it at 6pm on Saturday (19th May’18)!
Our latest specially-commissioned short story is written by the performer, poet and dramatist Hannah Silva! Having bought her first house, a woman is contemplating her colour schemes with particular care… Hattie Morahan reads ‘Short Works: A Hint Of Heather‘ next Friday (18th May’18) at 15:45 on BBC Radio 4!
Our much-loved fantasy series ‘Mythos‘ returned with two new sequels from writer Julian Simpson last week (24th-26th April’18) on BBC Radio 4!
To start things off, there was a repeat of the original ‘Mythos‘, followed by new episodes ‘Mythos: Glamis‘ and ‘Mythos: Albion‘ the following two days.
You can catch them all on BBC iPlayer for 21 days only!
Commissioned specially for BBC Radio 4 EXTRA – Monica Dolan and Bryony Hannah read five tales from Sophie Hannah’s collection ‘Something Untoward: Six Tales of Domestic Terror‘. Catch them next Monday – Thursday (7th-10th May’18), and the following Monday (14th May’18) at 11am!
Next Monday – Friday (16th-20th April’18) at 11am/9pm, BBC Radio 4 EXTRA are repeating ‘Clown’s Shoes‘; five stories from Rebecca F John’s debut collection, that dip into the shadows and spotlights of life. Read by Lloyd Hutchinson and Ruth Gemmell.
Next Tuesday and Wednesday (3rd & 4th April’18) at 11am, Radio 4 EXTRA are repeating ‘The Time Being‘ from January 2014! In this series, a story by C D Rose set in Rome (1977), where a young woman seems very interested in a lawyer’s daily routines; and a story by Melissa Lee-Houghton with love, loss and white magic…
Starting Monday (2nd April’18) at 2pm for two weeks, BBC Radio 4 EXTRA are repeating ‘The Essex Serpent‘ by Sarah Perry – our Book at Bedtime from April 2017! Set in 1893, the story moves between Essex and London where Cora Seaborne – a perceptive, curious and bold young woman – has her head and heart tested by both man and myth…
Peterborough Cathedral is the setting for a specially-commissioned short story by Julie Mayhew, this Friday (30th Mar’18) at 15:45 on BBC Radio 4. When Annie plays truant, her preferred hiding place is beside the tomb of Katherine of Aragon. But what happens when someone else has designs on her spot? Bryony Hannah reads ‘The Last Place‘.
Next Monday – Wednesday (26th-28th March’18) at 11am/9pm, BBC Radio 4 EXTRA are repeating ‘Goodnight Vienna‘; a multi-contributor series of specially-commissioned radio stories with a Viennese setting. To the outsider, Vienna can be a state of mind as much as an actual place…
‘Suggs: My Mad-Life Crisis‘ is repeated this Friday (23rd Mar’18) at 14:15 on BBC Radio 4! The death of Suggs’ beloved cat on his fiftieth birthday triggers a personal quest to discover what happened to the father he never knew. Stunned by what he learns, Suggs takes us back to his childhood and his first appearance on Top Of The Pops at the age of eighteen…
This Friday (23rd Feb’18) at 15:45 on BBC Radio 4, Joe Sims reads our new short story ‘The Man Who Loved Birds‘ by the writer and journalist Alex Preston. A man who grew up surrounded by birds and birdsong misses them badly when, as an adult, he lives and works in the city. He decides to solve the problem by setting off on a journey…
A new Sweet Talk Book Of The Week starts on Monday, read by Philip Jackson! In ‘Yorkshire‘, archeologist Richard Morris finds that a family photograph is his starting point for a sweeping investigation into what defines his native county… Monday-Friday (19th-23rd Feb’18), 09:45 on BBC Radio 4
We have showered them in mythology, but real owls are not the fluffy birds of our fairy tales, but wild things; often, but not always, just beyond our reach… In our new Book Of The Week, poet and academic Miriam Darlington sets off on a quest to learn more about the ecology and conservation of these night roaming raptors. ‘Owl Sense‘, read by Teresa Gallagher, starts next Monday (12th Feb’18) at 09:45 on BBC Radio 4!
BBC Radio 4 EXTRA are repeating Nick Walker’s ‘Annika Stranded‘ Series 2, read by the wonderful Nicola Walker! Next Monday – Wednesday (29th-31st Jan’18) at 11am…
This Wednesday – Friday (17th-19th Jan) at 11am, BBC Radio 4 EXTRA are repeating ‘Time‘ by Olga Grushin; three tales which touch upon the lives of five generations and explore the effects of time on one Russian family…