Episode 265 · Rerun · 2026-08-04
Gaining Ground
A woman abandons conventional domestic life to live alone in the Canadian wilderness.
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Episode 261 · Rerun · 2026-04-28
De Profundis
A prison letter reflects on suffering, artistic identity and the author's relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas.
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Episode 260 · Rerun · 2026-04-14
Human Voices
BBC employees try to keep broadcasting through the anxieties and dislocations of wartime London.
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Episode 259 · Rerun · 2026-04-10
Alma Cogan
A fictional account of the singer imagines a different survival, exploring fame, memory and postwar British culture.
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Episode 258 · Rerun · 2026-04-10
The Inheritors
A Neanderthal community encounters another kind of human, with consequences its members struggle to understand.
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Episode 257 · 2026-02-10
Till We Have Faces
The myth of Cupid and Psyche is retold through a sister's account of jealousy, love and the gods.
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Episode 256 · 2026-01-27
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
An affair unsettles two neighbouring households, exposing the evasions and competing desires within their lives.
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Episode 255 · 2026-01-13
Jake Thackray - The Unsung Writer
An anthology of Jake Thackray's prose, poetry and other writing, edited by Paul Thompson, reveals work beyond his songs.
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Episode 254 · 2025-12-25
Asterix and the Roman Agent
A Roman agent tries to divide the indomitable Gaulish village through suspicion and argument.
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Episode 253 · 2025-11-25
Last and First Men
An imagined future historian traces successive human species across immense spans of time.
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Episode 252 · 2025-11-11
Transit
A writer renovating a London flat encounters other people's stories while attempting to reconstruct her own life.
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Episode 251 · 2025-10-28
Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff's attachment to Catherine Earnshaw drives a story of thwarted love and revenge across two Yorkshire families.
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Episode 250 · Rerun · 2025-10-14
Imogen
A shy young woman enters a glamorous holiday circle and discovers its insecurities and romantic complications.
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Episode 249 · 2025-10-01
All the Devils Are Here
Seabrook follows disturbing connections among writers, forgotten lives and the towns of coastal Kent.
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Episode 248 · 2025-09-30
The Eye of the Beholder
A private investigator becomes obsessed with the woman he is following as her trail crosses the United States.
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Episode 247 · 2025-09-30
The Tombs of Atuan
A young priestess's encounter with an intruder challenges the religious authority and isolation shaping her life.
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Episode 246 · 2025-08-19
The Hearing Trumpet
An elderly woman's move to an institution opens into a surreal adventure involving strange rituals and unexpected rebellion.
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Episode 245 · 2025-08-05
A Taste of Honey
A Salford teenager negotiates pregnancy, an unreliable mother and an unconventional friendship in Delaney's play.
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Episode 244 · 2025-07-22
The Ballad of Halo Jones
A young woman escapes a constricting future world, only to encounter other forms of exploitation and conflict.
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Episode 243 · 2025-07-08
Angel
An ambitious young novelist builds a career on extravagant fiction while resisting the realities of other people's lives.
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Episode 242 · 2025-06-24
The Corner That Held Them
Life in a medieval convent unfolds through work, disease, money and the passing of generations.
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Episode 240 · 2025-05-27
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾
Adrian records adolescence, family troubles and frustrated ambitions with an earnestness that exposes more than he intends.
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Episode 239 · 2025-05-13
The Image of Her
A woman's apparently successful life is tested by doubts about happiness, motherhood and the images society asks her to maintain.
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Episode 238 · 2025-04-29
Monkey King: Journey to the West
Monkey and his companions accompany a Buddhist monk on a pilgrimage filled with transformations, monsters and comic disruption.
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Episode 237 · 2025-04-08
The Unconsoled
A pianist arriving in an unfamiliar city becomes trapped in an unsettling sequence of obligations and elusive memories.
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Episode 236 · 2025-03-25
What Remains
Arendt's collected poems offer a personal counterpoint to her philosophical work, tracing love, displacement and reflection.
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Episode 235 · 2025-03-11
A Compass Error
A young woman's education and emotional life unfold amid the pressures of family and European society.
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Episode 234 · 2025-02-25
A Life
The director recounts his life in theatre and cinema, including artistic achievements and contentious political choices.
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Episode 232 · Rerun · 2025-02-04
Riddley Walker
In a distant post-apocalyptic England, a boy tries to interpret the fragments of language, history and technology around him.
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Episode 231 · Rerun · 2025-01-21
Notes from Underground
An embittered narrator attacks comfortable theories of human behaviour while revealing his own humiliations and contradictions.
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Episode 229 · 2024-12-25
Moby-Dick; or the Whale
Ishmael joins a whaling voyage consumed by Captain Ahab's pursuit of the white whale that injured him.
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Episode 228 · 2024-12-10
Voices of the Old Sea
Lewis recalls a Spanish fishing community poised between inherited customs and the arrival of tourism.
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Episode 227 · 2024-11-26
The Moon's a Balloon
Niven recounts childhood, military service and his route into Hollywood with an actor's eye for an entertaining story.
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Episode 226 · 2024-11-13
Grinny
Children begin to suspect that an apparently ordinary elderly relative is concealing an extraordinary threat.
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Episode 226 · 2024-11-13
You Remember Me!
The unsettling story begun in Grinny continues as a familiar danger returns in a new form.
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Episode 225 · 2024-10-31
Round the Fire Stories
Doyle gathers tales of crime, danger and the uncanny intended for fireside storytelling.
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Episode 224 · 2024-10-22
Nico, Songs They Never Play on the Radio
A musician recalls touring with Nico, capturing the unstable routines and personalities surrounding her later career.
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Episode 223 · 2024-10-08
Parable of the Sower
A young woman develops a new belief system while seeking safety through a fractured near-future America.
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Episode 222 · 2024-09-24
Her First American
A European refugee's relationship with a Black American intellectual becomes a searching encounter with a new country.
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Episode 220 · Rerun · 2024-09-10
Autumn Journal
MacNeice's long poem records private and public anxieties as Europe approaches war.
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Episode 219 · Rerun · 2024-08-27
Absolute Beginners
A young photographer navigates London's youth culture and racial tensions at the end of the 1950s.
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Episode 217 · 2024-07-30
Endless Night
A young couple's dream of a house and a shared future gives way to a darker story of desire and deception.
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Episode 216 · 2024-07-16
Marianne Dreams
A convalescent girl's drawings begin to shape a disturbing world she enters in dreams.
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Episode 215 · 2024-07-02
Gaining Ground
A woman abandons conventional domestic life to live alone in the Canadian wilderness.
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Episode 214 · 2024-06-18
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Gawain accepts a supernatural challenge that tests courage, courtesy and the limits of knightly honour.
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Episode 213 · 2024-06-04
The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts
The scripts of the original radio adventures preserve Arthur Dent's improbable travels through a comic universe.
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Episode 212 · 2024-05-21
The Good Soldier
A narrator revisits the lives of two apparently respectable couples, uncovering the deceptions behind his earlier certainties.
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Episode 210 · 2024-04-23
A Marsh Island
An artist's stay on a New England island draws him into the lives and relationships of a farming family.
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Episode 209 · 2024-04-09
The Children of Men
In a world where people can no longer reproduce, an unexpected pregnancy challenges a society resigned to extinction.
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Episode 208 · 2024-03-26
All My Pretty Ones
Sexton's poems address grief, family and the pressures of private experience with striking candour.
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Episode 206 · 2024-02-27
A Life in Movies
Powell recalls his formation as a filmmaker and the people and productions that shaped his cinematic life.
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Episode 205 · 2024-02-13
Scouse Mouse
Melly looks back on a Liverpool childhood, family eccentricity and the early formation of his interests.
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Episode 204 · 2024-01-30
Love on the Dole
Two young people struggle against unemployment and restricted choices in Depression-era Salford.
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Episode 203 · 2024-01-16
The Stone Angel
An elderly Canadian woman looks back on the pride, losses and decisions that have shaped her life.
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Episode 202 · 2023-12-25
A Christmas Carol
A miser's encounters with supernatural visitors force him to reconsider his past, present responsibilities and possible future.
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Episode 201 · 2023-12-12
Briggflatts
Bunting's long poem brings Northumbrian speech, landscape and personal memory into a tightly patterned form.
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Episode 200 · 2023-11-28
Trustee From the Toolroom
An unassuming technical journalist undertakes a demanding journey to secure his niece's future.
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Episode 198 · 2023-10-31
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Scholars and travellers uncover relics and places whose histories carry frightening consequences.
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Episode 197 · 2023-10-10
The True History of the First Mrs Meredith
Johnson reconstructs the life of Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith, questioning the assumptions surrounding a woman remembered through famous men.
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Episode 196 · 2023-09-26
Esther Waters
A young servant faces the consequences of pregnancy while trying to preserve a livelihood and care for her child.
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Episode 195 · 2023-09-12
Galapágos
A stranded group on the Galápagos becomes the starting point for Vonnegut's satirical account of humanity's future.
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Episode 194 · 2023-08-29
A Kestrel for a Knave
A boy in a Yorkshire mining community finds a rare source of purpose in training a kestrel.
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Episode 192 · 2023-08-01
A Passage to India
An accusation arising from a visit to the Marabar Caves exposes the divisions and mistrust of British-ruled India.
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Episode 191 · 2023-07-18
The Millstone
An unmarried academic confronts pregnancy and motherhood on terms that unsettle those around her.
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Episode 190 · 2023-07-04
The Eustace Diamonds
A young widow's claim to a valuable necklace draws her into a struggle over property, marriage and reputation.
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Episode 189 · 2023-06-20
The Maltese Falcon
Private detective Sam Spade navigates murder and deception as several competing parties pursue a coveted statuette.
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Episode 188 · 2023-05-30
Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair
A historian investigates espionage, religion and the philosopher Giordano Bruno's time in Elizabethan London.
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Episode 186 · Rerun · 2023-05-02
All the Devils Are Here
Seabrook follows disturbing connections among writers, forgotten lives and the towns of coastal Kent.
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Episode 184 · Rerun · 2023-04-04
So Long, See You Tomorrow
A remembered murder leads a narrator back to childhood, friendship and the limits of what can be known about another life.
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Episode 182 · Rerun · 2023-03-07
Good Morning, Midnight
A woman returns to Paris, moving among cafés, hotels and memories that make escape from the past difficult.
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Episode 180 · Rerun · 2023-02-07
Fungus the Bogeyman
Briggs imagines the working and domestic life of a bogeyman in a comic world of deliberate unpleasantness.
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Episode 178 · Rerun · 2023-01-10
The Tortoise and the Hare
A marriage is threatened when a seemingly unlikely rival begins to exercise a quiet influence.
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Episode 177 · 2022-12-25
Ballet Shoes
Three adopted sisters train for the stage while seeking ways to make their own names and support their household.
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Episode 176 · 2022-12-13
The Awakening
A married woman in Louisiana begins to question the domestic and social boundaries imposed upon her.
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Episode 175 · 2022-11-29
The Ice Palace
A brief friendship between two girls leaves one confronting a mysterious absence and a frozen landscape.
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Episode 174 · 2022-11-15
The Springs of Affection
Stories of Dublin households examine affection, disappointment and the fragile arrangements of family life.
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Episode 173 · 2022-10-31
The Altar of the Dead and Other Tales
James gathers stories of memory, haunting and moral uncertainty, including the title tale of private remembrance.
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Episode 172 · 2022-10-18
Full Tilt
Murphy recounts her bicycle journey from Ireland towards India, meeting landscapes and communities along the route.
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Episode 171 · 2022-10-04
Roadside Picnic
A man scavenges dangerous artefacts from a zone left behind by extraterrestrial visitors.
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Episode 170 · 2022-09-20
North and South
A move from rural southern England to an industrial northern town challenges a young woman's ideas about class and labour.
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Episode 169 · 2022-09-06
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Close observation of a Virginia creek becomes an inquiry into attention, natural abundance and the unsettling violence within living systems.
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Episode 168 · 2022-08-02
Lightning Rods
A salesman's outrageous workplace proposal becomes the basis of a satire about business, power and self-justification.
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Episode 167 · 2022-07-19
The Midwich Cuckoos
The simultaneous pregnancies of an English village lead to children whose abilities disturb the surrounding community.
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Episode 166 · 2022-07-05
The Kingdom By the Sea
Theroux travels around Britain's coast, observing places and people beyond its familiar metropolitan centres.
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Episode 165 · 2022-06-21
Gormenghast
An isolated castle and its elaborate rituals provide the setting for struggles over inheritance, ambition and the possibility of escape.
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Episode 164 · 2022-05-23
The Death of the Heart
An orphaned teenager's emotional openness exposes the evasions and betrayals within the adult household that takes her in.
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Episode 163 · 2022-05-09
De Profundis
A prison letter reflects on suffering, artistic identity and the author's relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas.
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Episode 162 · 2022-04-25
Family Lexicon
Family sayings and remembered conversations anchor Ginzburg's account of a household living through Italian fascism and war.
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Episode 161 · 2022-04-11
Escape to an Autumn Pavement
A Jamaican man in London negotiates sexuality, belonging and the constraints of an expatriate social world.
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Episode 161 · 2022-04-11
Jamaica
Salkey's book-length poem explores Jamaican history, language and the possibilities of collective identity.
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Episode 160 · 2022-03-28
The Crying of Lot 49
An unexpected inheritance draws Oedipa Maas into signs of a possible underground communications network.
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Episode 159 · 2022-03-14
Fungus the Bogeyman
Briggs imagines the working and domestic life of a bogeyman in a comic world of deliberate unpleasantness.
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Episode 158 · 2022-02-28
South Riding
The lives of teachers, councillors and families intersect in a Yorkshire community shaped by social and political change.
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Episode 156 · 2022-02-07
Gaudy Night
Harriet Vane returns to her Oxford college, where anonymous threats draw her into an investigation involving intellectual independence and personal loyalty.
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Episode 155 · 2022-01-24
Finishing the Hat
Sondheim annotates lyrics from the first part of his career, explaining the dramatic and musical decisions behind them.
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Episode 155 · 2022-01-24
Look, I Made a Hat
A second collection of annotated lyrics continues Sondheim's reflections on writing for musical theatre.
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Episode 153 · 2021-12-25
The Railway Children
Three children living near a railway find friendship and adventure while trying to understand their father's absence.
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Episode 152 · 2021-12-13
Deadwood
Dexter revisits a violent frontier town through the tangled lives surrounding Wild Bill Hickok and his death.
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Episode 151 · 2021-11-29
The Godwits Fly
A young woman's development unfolds against family pressures and the social landscape of early twentieth-century New Zealand.
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Episode 150 · 2021-11-15
Notes from Underground
An embittered narrator attacks comfortable theories of human behaviour while revealing his own humiliations and contradictions.
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Special episode · 2021-11-09
Treacle Walker
A boy's encounter with a mysterious traveller draws everyday objects and local language into an elusive supernatural story.
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Episode 149 · 2021-10-31
Something in Disguise
The members of a family pursue love and independence while concealing important parts of themselves.
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Episode 148 · 2021-10-18
Cassandra at the Wedding
A pianist returns home for her twin sister's wedding, bringing unresolved dependence and resentment into the celebrations.
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Episode 147 · 2021-10-04
The Dream Songs
Berryman's restless sequence follows the recurring figure Henry through grief, comedy and fractured self-examination.
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Episode 146 · 2021-09-20
Elizabeth Costello
An ageing novelist's appearances and encounters become occasions for arguments about literature, ethics and belief.
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Episode 144 · 2021-08-06
Fat City
Two boxers at different stages of their careers pursue uncertain hopes in working-class California.
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Episode 143 · 2021-07-19
Heart of the Original
Aylett reflects on originality and imagination through compressed, provocative observations about art and culture.
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Episode 142 · 2021-07-05
In a Lonely Place
A Los Angeles drifter's perspective gradually reveals the menace behind his relationships and carefully managed public appearance.
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Episode 141 · 2021-06-21
Are You Somebody?
O'Faolain examines family, work, desire and the difficulty of making an independent life in Ireland.
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Episode 140 · 2021-06-07
A Goat's Song
A playwright's troubled relationship opens into a layered account of memory, landscape and storytelling.
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Episode 139 · 2021-05-24
The Evenings
A young office worker passes the final evenings of the year among family, acquaintances and private anxieties.
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Episode 138 · 2021-05-10
The Plague and I
MacDonald recounts treatment for tuberculosis and the people she encounters during a long stay in a sanatorium.
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Episode 137 · 2021-04-26
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
A narrator repeatedly postpones his own life story through digressions about his family, language and the business of storytelling.
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Episode 136 · 2021-04-12
Água Viva
An unnamed voice addresses another person in a searching meditation on language, time and immediate experience.
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Episode 135 · 2021-03-31
The Fish Can Sing
A boy growing up near Reykjavík encounters a celebrated singer and questions what a worthwhile life might be.
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Episode 134 · 2021-03-15
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
A suburban mother's daughter's pregnancy exposes the frustrations and compromises beneath family respectability.
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Episode 133 · 2021-03-01
Miss Pym Disposes
A visiting writer at a physical-training college finds herself drawn into a difficult question of guilt and responsibility.
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Episode 132 · 2021-02-15
Job
A Jewish teacher's life is transformed by family loss, migration and a crisis of faith.
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Episode 130 · 2021-02-01
Karoo
A Hollywood script doctor searches for a way out of personal emptiness while making damaging choices about other lives.
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Episode 129 · 2021-01-18
The Bloater
A woman working in a recording studio observes colleagues and suitors with comic impatience and unsettled desire.
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Episode 127 · 2020-12-25
The Dark is Rising
A boy's eleventh birthday reveals his place in an ancient struggle between the forces of Light and Dark.
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Episode 126 · 2020-12-07
The Victorian Chaise-longue
Resting on an old chaise-longue, a convalescent woman wakes in a different body and an earlier century.
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Episode 125 · 2020-11-23
The Compleet Molesworth
Schoolboy Nigel Molesworth records the indignities and absurdities of prep-school life in gloriously unreliable spelling.
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Episode 124 · 2020-11-09
Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius
The Doctor and Sarah Jane encounter a scientist whose experiments threaten to restore a dangerous Time Lord.
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Episode 123 · 2020-10-26
Beowulf
An Old English heroic poem follows Beowulf's encounters with Grendel, Grendel's mother and a dragon.
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Episode 122 · 2020-10-12
Silence
A Portuguese missionary in Japan confronts persecution and the moral cost of maintaining faith under torture.
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Episode 121 · 2020-09-28
The Odd Women
Women seeking financial and emotional independence face the inequalities of late Victorian marriage and work.
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Episode 120 · 2020-09-14
Thérèse Raquin
An affair and a murder bind two lovers together in a claustrophobic story of guilt and fear.
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Episode 119 · 2020-08-31
I, Lalla
The Kashmiri mystic's verses explore spiritual practice and the self in a modern English rendering.
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Episode 117 · 2020-08-03
The Varieties of Religious Experience
Lectures examine religious experience through individual testimony, considering belief, conversion and the psychological varieties of spiritual life.
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Episode 116 · 2020-07-20
How to Cook a Wolf
Essays on food during wartime scarcity connect practical ingenuity with the pleasures and emotional importance of cooking.
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Episode 115 · 2020-07-06
The Diary of a Nobody
Charles Pooter records the small ambitions and embarrassments of suburban life with solemn self-importance.
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Episode 114 · 2020-06-22
The Inheritors
A Neanderthal community encounters another kind of human, with consequences its members struggle to understand.
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Episode 113 · 2020-06-08
The Constant Nymph
A musically gifted girl and an older composer become entangled in a story of desire and social misunderstanding.
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Episode 112 · 2020-05-25
Frost in May
A young girl's life at a convent school becomes a struggle between faith, authority and her developing identity.
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Episode 111 · 2020-05-11
The World According to Garp
The life of a writer and his family unfolds through violent accidents, sexual politics and persistent anxiety.
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Episode 110 · 2020-04-27
The Journal of a Disappointed Man
A naturalist's diary records intellectual ambition, illness and the urgency of a life he fears will be cut short.
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Episode 109 · 2020-04-13
Excellent Women
A single woman observes the romantic complications of neighbours and church acquaintances with quiet wit.
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Episode 108 · 2019-12-25
À la Recherche du Temps Perdu
Memory opens onto an immense reconstruction of childhood, desire, society and the making of an artistic vocation.
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Episode 107 · 2019-12-09
Riceyman Steps
A second-hand bookseller's habits of saving and possession shape a household in a changing London neighbourhood.
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Episode 106 · 2019-11-25
Edith's Diary
A woman's imagined diary life increasingly diverges from the disappointments of her family and everyday existence.
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Episode 105 · 2019-11-11
The Rings of Saturn
A walk through Suffolk becomes a chain of reflections on memory, destruction and the traces history leaves in landscapes.
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Episode 104 · 2019-10-28
The Breaking Point
Stories explore the moments when ordinary pressures push people towards unsettling discoveries and extreme behaviour.
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Episode 103 · 2019-10-14
Absalom, Absalom!
Conflicting narrators reconstruct a Southern patriarch's ambitions, revealing the violence and racial obsessions underlying his family's history.
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Episode 102 · 2019-09-29
The Soul of Kindness
A charming woman's belief in her own kindness obscures the effects of her behaviour on those around her.
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Episode 101 · 2019-09-16
Of Walking in Ice
Herzog records a winter walk from Munich to Paris, undertaken in the hope of preventing a friend's death.
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Episode 100 · 2019-09-02
The Anatomy of Melancholy
A wide-ranging inquiry into melancholy combines medical discussion, literary quotation and reflections on human desires and habits.
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Episode 98 · 2019-08-05
Riddley Walker
In a distant post-apocalyptic England, a boy tries to interpret the fragments of language, history and technology around him.
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Episode 97 · 2019-07-22
The Illustrated Man
Stories apparently revealed through a traveller's tattoos imagine the disturbing and poignant consequences of humanity's technological and emotional choices.
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Episode 96 · 2019-07-08
Miss Buncle's Book
A woman's novel about her village causes turmoil when neighbours recognise themselves in its characters.
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Episode 95 · 2019-06-24
The Baron in the Trees
A young aristocrat climbs into the trees and builds an entire life above the ground.
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Episode 94 · 2019-06-10
The Prince of West End Avenue
An elderly resident directs a production of Hamlet while memories of European catastrophe disturb the comedy of communal life.
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Episode 93 · 2019-05-27
Beloved
A formerly enslaved woman's household is haunted by a presence that brings an unbearable history into the present.
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Episode 92 · 2019-05-13
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
An elderly Guernseyman tells the story of his life, friendships and a changing island community.
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Episode 91 · 2019-04-29
A Journal of the Plague Year
Defoe reconstructs London's plague year through a narrator observing fear, rumour and the disruption of daily life.
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Episode 90 · 2019-04-15
Great Expectations
An unexpected fortune encourages Pip to reinvent himself, testing his assumptions about gentility, loyalty and the sources of kindness.
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Episode 89 · 2019-04-01
Last Train to Memphis
Guralnick traces Elvis Presley's early life and rise to fame in the first volume of his biography.
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Episode 89 · 2019-04-01
Careless Love
The second volume follows Elvis through the success, isolation and decline of his later years.
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Episode 88 · 2019-03-18
Human Voices
BBC employees try to keep broadcasting through the anxieties and dislocations of wartime London.
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Episode 87 · 2019-03-04
Utz
A collector's devotion to porcelain raises questions about ownership, freedom and compromise in communist Prague.
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Episode 86 · 2019-02-18
The Return of the Soldier
A soldier's return with amnesia unsettles the women whose different memories define his former life.
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Episode 85 · 2019-02-04
Hemlock and After
A novelist's project to support younger writers becomes entangled with prejudice, desire and moral self-deception.
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Episode 84 · 2019-01-21
Imogen
A shy young woman enters a glamorous holiday circle and discovers its insecurities and romantic complications.
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Episode 83 · 2019-01-07
The Rainbow
Three generations of a Nottinghamshire family seek fuller lives amid changing relationships, work and social expectations.
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Episode 82 · 2018-12-25
Books Do Furnish a Room
Powell returns to postwar publishing and literary society in a later volume of A Dance to the Music of Time.
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Episode 81 · 2018-12-10
Harpo Speaks!
Harpo recalls family life, performance and the friendships that carried him from vaudeville into the Marx Brothers' films.
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Episode 80 · 2018-11-26
The Tortoise and the Hare
A marriage is threatened when a seemingly unlikely rival begins to exercise a quiet influence.
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Episode 79 · 2018-11-12
Moominvalley in November
Visitors gather at the Moomins' empty home, finding their own ways to manage loneliness and change.
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Episode 78 · 2018-10-29
Ghosts
Wharton's supernatural stories turn houses, relationships and social unease into sources of haunting.
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Episode 77 · 2018-10-15
Autumn Journal
MacNeice's long poem records private and public anxieties as Europe approaches war.
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Episode 76 · 2018-10-01
The Dud Avocado
A young American woman pursues freedom and amusement in 1950s Paris, with increasingly complicated results.
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Episode 75 · 2018-09-17
Ulverton
Linked voices and changing forms trace centuries of life in an imagined English village.
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Episode 74 · 2018-09-03
A Girl in Winter
A wartime refugee working in an English library remembers an earlier summer visit and its lost possibilities.
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Episode 73 · 2018-08-20
The Lion & the Unicorn
Orwell considers English identity, class and the political changes he believes wartime Britain requires.
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Episode 72 · 2018-08-06
How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read
Bayard questions what it means to know a book and how reading, forgetting and conversation shape literary culture.
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Episode 71 · 2018-07-23
The Return of the King
The struggle for Gondor and the final stages of the Ring's destruction bring the intertwined journeys of the fellowship to their conclusion.
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Episode 70 · 2018-07-09
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Packer's stories follow young people negotiating race, belonging, faith and the pressures of self-definition.
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Episode 69 · 2018-06-25
Told By An Idiot
A family's changing beliefs become a comic way of surveying English intellectual and social life across generations.
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Episode 68 · 2018-06-11
The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories
Reimagined fairy tales expose the desires, threats and unequal powers beneath familiar narratives of innocence and rescue.
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Episode 67 · 2018-05-28
My Ántonia
A narrator remembers an immigrant girl's life on the Nebraska prairie, tracing endurance, friendship and the shaping power of landscape.
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Episode 66 · 2018-05-14
The Fatal Englishman
Three short biographies examine gifted Englishmen whose lives ended young and whose ambitions remained unresolved.
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Episode 65 · 2018-04-30
Corregidora
A blues singer confronts inherited memories of slavery, sexual violence and the demands placed on her own life.
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Episode 64 · 2018-04-24
The Lowlife
A solitary gambler in London's East End finds his fragile routines disturbed by attachment to a neighbour's child.
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Episode 63 · 2018-04-02
Something Happened
A corporate employee's anxious monologue reveals the fears and compromises underlying work and family life.
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Episode 62 · 2018-03-19
The Town House
The history of a Suffolk house begins with a medieval peasant's efforts to establish a place for himself.
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Episode 61 · 2018-03-05
Berg
A man arrives in a seaside town intending to kill his father, in a fractured novel of obsession and mistaken identities.
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Episode 60 · 2018-02-19
Jesus' Son
Linked stories follow an erratic narrator through addiction, damaged relationships and unexpected moments of perception.
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Episode 59 · 2018-02-05
Beyond Black
A working medium and her assistant navigate the troubled border between suburban England and the dead.
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Episode 58 · 2018-01-22
Lost Horizon
Travellers reach a remote Himalayan community whose serenity carries an extraordinary promise and a hidden cost.
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Episode 57 · 2018-01-08
À rebours
An aristocratic recluse constructs an intensely artificial world of sensations, objects and aesthetic obsessions.
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Episode 56 · 2017-12-24
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Bond investigates Blofeld in the Swiss Alps, where romance intersects with a dangerous biological plot.
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Episode 55 · 2017-12-11
Fire and Hemlock
A young woman discovers that the memories of her childhood conceal a supernatural bargain and a missing friendship.
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Episode 54 · 2017-11-26
Alma Cogan
A fictional account of the singer imagines a different survival, exploring fame, memory and postwar British culture.
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Episode 53 · 2017-11-09
To Serve Them All My Days
A former soldier finds a new vocation teaching at a boys' school after the First World War.
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Episode 52 · 2017-10-30
We Have always lived in the castle
Two sisters' isolated household is disturbed by a visitor, reopening the hostility and suspicion surrounding a family tragedy.
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Episode 51 · 2017-10-16
Jacob's Room
Fragments of other people's perceptions create a portrait of a young man whose life remains elusive even to those closest to him.
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Episode 50 · 2017-10-01
Adventures in the Screen Trade
Goldman examines the craft and business of screenwriting through experiences inside the film industry.
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Episode 49 · 2017-09-17
Look At Me
A lonely librarian's involvement with a glamorous couple exposes the dangerous distance between observation and belonging.
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Episode 48 · 2017-09-03
Under the Volcano
An alcoholic former consul's final day in Mexico becomes a study of self-destruction, love and political unease.
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Episode 46 · 2017-08-07
Desperate Characters
A cat bite unsettles a Brooklyn couple, revealing anxieties beneath the comforts of their middle-class lives.
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Episode 45 · 2017-07-24
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Lorelei Lee records her social and romantic progress in a satire of wealth, taste and male vanity.
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Episode 44 · 2017-07-09
Haunts of the Black Masseur
Swimming becomes a route through literature, art and the lives of writers drawn to water.
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Episode 43 · 2017-06-25
Father and Son
Gosse recalls a childhood shaped by an intensely religious father and the gradual formation of independent beliefs.
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Episode 42 · 2017-06-12
I'll Sleep when I'm dead
An oral biography assembles memories of Warren Zevon's music, relationships and difficult personal life.
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Episode 41 · 2017-05-29
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
An actor looks back on family, sexuality and the obstacles facing a Black artist in America.
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Episode 40 · 2017-05-15
The Gift
A Russian émigré writer in Berlin reflects on literature, family and the making of his own artistic identity.
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Episode 39 · 2017-05-01
Honeymoon
A filmmaker's disappearance opens into an investigation of a couple whose history reaches back to occupied France.
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Episode 38 · 2017-04-17
The Weather in the Streets
A young woman's affair exposes the emotional risks and unequal terms of a relationship outside marriage.
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Episode 36 · 2017-04-03
Slaves Of Solitude
Residents of a wartime boarding house endure petty cruelties, loneliness and the struggle to preserve private hope.
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Episode 35 · 2017-03-27
Lincoln in the Bardo
Abraham Lincoln's grief for his son intersects with a chorus of unsettled spirits in an experimental account of loss and attachment.
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Episode 34 · 2017-03-20
A Sport and a Pastime
A narrator imagines an affair between an American man and a French woman, blurring observation with erotic invention.
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Episode 33 · 2017-03-06
The Snow Ball
A New Year's Eve masquerade becomes a setting for attraction, performance and arguments about sex and death.
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Episode 32 · 2017-02-20
The Horse's Mouth
The painter Gulley Jimson pursues art with ingenuity and ruthlessness, disrupting the lives of everyone around him.
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Episode 31 · 2017-02-06
Red Shift
Three stories across different periods connect through a Cheshire landscape and a recurring object.
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Episode 30 · 2017-01-23
Venetia
An independent young woman meets a disreputable neighbour whose reputation complicates their developing affection.
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Episode 29 · 2017-01-10
Memento Mori
Anonymous telephone calls remind a circle of elderly acquaintances of mortality, exposing old secrets and rivalries.
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Episode 28 · 2016-12-27
A State of Denmark
A dissident living abroad is forced to confront an increasingly authoritarian England.
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Episode 27 · 2016-12-13
A Long Way from Verona
An outspoken schoolgirl's determination to write brings her into conflict with the expectations of wartime society.
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Episode 26 · 2016-11-28
So Long, See You Tomorrow
A remembered murder leads a narrator back to childhood, friendship and the limits of what can be known about another life.
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Episode 25 · 2016-11-07
Cocaine Nights
An investigation into a fire at an expatriate resort uncovers an unsettling relationship between crime and communal energy.
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Episode 24 · 2016-10-26
Cold Hand In Mine
Aickman's strange stories find disquiet in ambiguous encounters, unfamiliar places and events that resist explanation.
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Episode 23 · 2016-10-10
The Holiday
A woman's holiday among relatives becomes a sharp, eccentric examination of attachment and social obligation.
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Episode 22 · 2016-09-26
The Animal Family
A hunter and a mermaid build an unconventional family with animals in a story of hospitality and belonging.
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Episode 20 · 2016-08-26
Absolute Beginners
A young photographer navigates London's youth culture and racial tensions at the end of the 1950s.
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Episode 19 · 2016-08-08
The Crack Up
Essays, letters and notebooks explore Fitzgerald's personal crisis and his reflections on writing and failure.
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Episode 18 · 2016-07-25
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Interconnected stories portray violence, exploitation and desire in working-class Brooklyn.
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Episode 17 · 2016-07-11
Maiden Voyage
Welch recalls youth, travel and the uncomfortable experience of observing a world in which he feels out of place.
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Episode 16 · 2016-06-27
Letters from a Fainthearted Feminist
Comic letters follow a woman's attempts to reconcile feminist principles with the contradictions of domestic life.
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Episode 15 · 2016-06-13
The Riddle of the Sands
Two yachtsmen sailing the German coast uncover preparations that may threaten Britain.
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Episode 14 · 2016-05-30
The Vet's Daughter
A lonely girl's harsh domestic life gives way to events that disturb the boundary between realism and the supernatural.
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Episode 13 · 2016-05-16
Bert Fegg's Nasty Book for Boys and Girls
Jones and Palin parody the improving children's annual with grotesque advice, absurd stories and deliberately bad behaviour.
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Episode 12 · 2016-05-02
Darkness Falls from the Air
A civil servant's work and marriage come under pressure as London endures the Blitz.
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Episode 11 · 2016-04-26
All the Devils Are Here
Seabrook follows disturbing connections among writers, forgotten lives and the towns of coastal Kent.
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Episode 10 · 2016-04-04
The High Window
Philip Marlowe's search for a missing coin leads through a wealthy household's secrets and a succession of deaths.
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Episode 9 · 2016-03-21
The Information
A failed novelist's jealousy of a successful friend develops into a destructive campaign of rivalry.
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Episode 8 · 2016-03-07
Lolly Willowes
A woman resisting her family's expectations discovers an unexpected form of freedom in a rural village.
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Episode 7 · 2016-02-23
The Great Fire
A wartime survivor's encounter with a young woman becomes a love story set among the unsettled landscapes of the late 1940s.
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Episode 6 · 2016-02-08
Passing
Two women whose lives have taken different paths confront the risks and ambiguities of racial passing.
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Episode 5 · 2016-01-25
Christie Malry's Own Double entry
A clerk applies double-entry bookkeeping to his grievances, balancing perceived injuries with increasingly extreme acts of retaliation.
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Episode 4 · 2016-01-11
The Blessing
An Englishwoman's marriage into French aristocratic society becomes a comedy of cultural misunderstanding and divided loyalties.
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Episode 3 · 2015-12-28
It Had to Be You
A widower's memories and present-day responsibilities reveal the long complications of marriage and family life.
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Episode 2 · 2015-12-14
Good Morning, Midnight
A woman returns to Paris, moving among cafés, hotels and memories that make escape from the past difficult.
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Episode 1 · 2015-11-30
A Month in the Country
A war veteran restoring a church mural finds a fragile refuge in the English countryside.
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