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City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran by Ramita Navai
Revealing portraits of the challenges ordinary people face in the Islamic Republic of Iran
BBC Radio 4
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean: A New Collection of Essays by Joan Didion (Omnibus)
Eight essays from the iconic and influential writer Joan Didion.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Goon Abroad by Sir Harry Secombe (Omnibus)
The Goon Show star recalls his childhood, travels and life in comedy
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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A Tomb with a View by Peter Ross (Omnibus)
Peter Ross uncovers the stories behind the headstones in graveyards across the UK.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Self-Help from the Middle Ages by Peter Jones
How the Middle Ages understood the Seven Deadly Sins as a guide to living well.
BBC Radio 4
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Travellers to Unimaginable Lands: Dementia, Carers and the Hidden Workings of the Mind by Dasha Kiper (Omnibus)
Compassionate case studies into dementia disorders by Dasha Kiper.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Prisoner by Sally Carson
The sequel to Sally Carson's rediscovered masterpiece Crooked Cross.
BBC Radio 4
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Second-Hand Stories
James Peak buys old things for Tony's antiques stall in Enfield Town, and hears stories...
BBC Radio 4
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The Dark Frontier by Jeffrey Marlow
Marine microbiologist Jeffrey Marlow explores the deep ocean - one of our last frontiers.
BBC Radio 4
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Hunger and Thirst by Claire Fuller
A contemporary gothic thriller from award-winning author Claire Fuller.
BBC Radio 4
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Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer
The story of the residents of Weimar during the rise and reign of Hitler.
BBC Radio 4
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Mission Control: Hannibal One by Len Deighton
A Roman commander faces an exceptional foe...
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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A Thousand Ships by Mark Haddon
Helen of Troy remembers life trapped inside her beauty....
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Humanly Possible by Sarah Bakewell (Omnibus)
Sarah Bakewell explores 700 years of humanist freethinking, enquiry and hope.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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John of John by Douglas Stuart
Douglas Stuart's tender and unflinching novel about belonging.
BBC Radio 4
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Frostlines by Neil Shea
Neil Shea's expansive yet intimate revelation of the Arctic during a time of crisis.
BBC Radio 4
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The Street Clinic by Dorcas Gwata
NHS nurse Dorcas Gwata reveals the impact of London's gang culture on mental health.
BBC Radio 4
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Among Others by Michael Frayn (Omnibus)
Playwright and novelist Michael Frayn's revelatory autobiography.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Two Lives by Vikram Seth
The heartrending 20th century saga of the author's great-uncle and his wife.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Jensen: Black Water by Heidi Amsinck
A new case, set in Copenhagen, for the investigative reporter Jensen.
BBC Radio 4
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The Butterfly Season by Lea Korsgaard
Lea Korsgaard searches for all of Denmark's butterfly species in a single year.
BBC Radio 4
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Land by Maggie O'Farrell
A spellbinding story of an Irish family, after the Great Hunger. Read by Brian Gleeson.
BBC Radio 4
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Heatwave: The Summer of 1976 by John L Williams
A blistering account of the events 50 years ago that brought British life to boiling point
BBC Radio 4
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Omnibus)
Alice sees a talking white rabbit scuttling down a hole....
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Into the Night: A Year with the Police by Matt Lloyd-Rose (Omnibus)
Matt Lloyd-Rose's account of being a volunteer police Special Constable in London.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Operation Rex by Damian Barr
A young boy goes to extraordinary lengths to save his dog as the Second World War looms.
BBC Radio 4
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On Thin Ice: A Memoir of Siberia, Surveillance and Survival by Charlie Walker
Explorer Charlie Walker sets out to walk 600 miles along Siberia's frozen rivers.
BBC Radio 4
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Kane by Edson Burton
A coming of age story set in an alternative world where slavery has never been abolished.
BBC Radio 4
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Cash Cow by Alev Scott
Journalist Alev's Scott's compelling investigation into the global fertility industry.
BBC Radio 4
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A Meditation on Mud by Rebecca Stott
A scientific, historical and cultural journey unearthing the meanings of mud.
BBC Radio 4
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News from Nowhere by William Morris
William Morris's Utopian vision of an England which had left Industrialisation behind.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A storm gathering force.
BBC Radio 4
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Confessions of a Performative Male by Darren McGarvey
Orwell Prize-winner Darren McGarvey asks hard questions about the crisis of masculinity.
BBC Radio 4
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The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
A classic comic novel from the eighteenth century.
BBC Radio 4
