Afternoon Reading
Short stories or abridged books, often from new writers
Afternoon Reading - 1989: Writing on the Wall
Anne McElvoy introduces extracts from the work of three writers associated with East Germany's literary scene
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Afternoon Reading - 80 Not Out
Series of five stories read by distinguished actors who are now in their eighties
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Afternoon Reading - A Friend of the Family
Three new stories reflecting some of the unexpected ways in which modern families work
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Afternoon Reading - A Georgian Trilogy
Series of specially-commissioned stories by James Hopkin, inspired by his travels in Georgia in autumn 2008
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Afternoon Reading - A Glimpse of Stocking
Series of stories celebrating 70 years of nylon stockings
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Afternoon Reading - A Little More Love in the Afternoon
Series of three short stories by leading romantic novelists inspired by the four word brief, ''love in the afternoon'
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Afternoon Reading - Agatha Christie's Mysterious Mr Quin
Martin Jarvis reads three stories written by Agatha Christie in the 1920s, featuring a highly unusual detective team: Mr Satterthwaite, a bachelor in his 60s, and the mysterious Mr Harley Quin
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Afternoon Reading - Agatha Christie's Mysterious Mr Quin
Martin Jarvis reads three stories written by Agatha Christie in the 1920s, featuring a highly unusual detective team: Mr Satterthwaite, a bachelor in his 60s, and the mysterious Mr Harley Quin
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Afternoon Reading - Alan Howard Reads
The popular veteran actor reads a series of specially commissioned short stories
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Afternoon Reading - Alan Sillitoe Short Stories
Philip Jackson reads a selection of stories by the best-selling author
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Afternoon Reading - An Audience with Dan Leno
The life and times of the great Victorian comedian Dan Leno, written and performed by Tony Lidington
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Afternoon Reading - An Audience with Max Wall
Tony Lidington plays the entertainer Max Wall in this series of shows recorded before an invited audience at the Concert Artistes' Association in Covent Garden
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Afternoon Reading - An Elegy for Easterly
Series of three stories from Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah's debut collection, An Elegy for Easterly, which won the Guardian First Book Award for 2009
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Afternoon Reading - An Important Passenger
Series of crime stories celebrating and inspired by the 75th anniversary of the publication of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express
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Afternoon Reading - An Italian Bestiary
Stories by Julia Blackburn about life and survival for the animals and people of Liguria in Northern Italy, where she has made her home
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Afternoon Reading - Bath Festival Stories by Candlelight
Series of stories with a supernatural theme, commissioned for the Bath Literary Festival
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Afternoon Reading - Be Prepared
To mark the centenary of the Scouting movement, a series of stories inspired by their famous motto
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Afternoon Reading - Bears of England
Series of eccentric stories by Mick Jackson, which mix fantasy with folk tale and myth with history. Read by Ian Holm
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Afternoon Reading - Berlin
Writing by five different authors about the city of Berlin, which throughout its turbulent modern history has remained a centre of culture and a magnet for writers
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Afternoon Reading - Big Charlie
By JH Williams. The true story of the transportation of an elephant between two Butlins camps in the 1950s, abridged and read by Tony Lidington
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Afternoon Reading - Birds and Beasts
Five specially commissioned stories with an animal theme
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Afternoon Reading - Blake's Doors of Perception
Short stories marking the 250th anniversary of William Blake's birth, each inspired by a quote from the great poet
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Afternoon Reading - Bright Young Things
Series of three classic short stories celebrating the riotous, witty, cocktail-swilling party people of the 1920s, dubbed by Evelyn Waugh the 'Bright Young Things'
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Afternoon Reading - Caravan Club
Series of short stories to mark the 100th anniversary of a British institution
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Afternoon Reading - Cassandra's Good Food Guide
Roger Lloyd Pack reads personal tales about eating and drinking from the cantankerous and comically opinionated Fleet Street legend Bill Connor, who wrote under the name Cassandra
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Afternoon Reading - Casual Cruelty
Series of short stories by the American author Shirley Jackson, who wrote in a style of 'creeping unease' from the 1940s until her death in 1965
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Afternoon Reading - Chattering
A selection of short stories from Louise Stern's debut collection
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Afternoon Reading - Cheating at Canasta
William Trevor reads five stories from his new collection
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Afternoon Reading - Cheltenham Festival Readings
Five readings from the Cheltenham Literature Festival
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Afternoon Reading - Cheltenham Festival: Stories on Stage
Three best-selling writers take to the stage at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in an event showcasing the art of the short story
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Afternoon Reading - Cheltenham Literature Festival Stories: Booker 40 Selection
Five readings from the stage of the Cheltenham Literature Festival by Man Booker winners to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the prize
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Afternoon Reading - City Of Two Continents
Series of short stories by leading writers with Turkish connections, marking Istanbul's year-long tenure as European Capital of Culture in 2010
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Afternoon Reading - Classical Assassins
Short monologues by Jonathan Lennie, based on historical facts and conjecture, about deaths of great composers
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Afternoon Reading - Clothes in the Wardrobe
Jasmine Hyde reads Alice Thomas Ellis' darkly comic novel about love, marriage - and the possessiveness of mothers
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Afternoon Reading - Come Away, Come Away!
To mark the 150th anniversary of JM Barrie's birth, three leading writers for young people contribute new stories inspired by chapter titles from Peter Pan
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Afternoon Reading - Comic Fringes
Series of short stories written and performed by leading new comedians at The Pleasance Theatre in Edinburgh as part of the Festival Fringe
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Afternoon Reading - Comic Fringes
Series of short stories written and performed by comedians at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
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Afternoon Reading - Countryman's Cooking
Leslie Phillips reads from WMW Fowler's definitive cookery manual for men
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Afternoon Reading - Creative Writing Groups 2008
Readings highlighting the best work from over 250 Creative Writing Groups in the North of England
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Afternoon Reading - Danish Noir
By Heidi Amsinck. Strange things happen when Henrik Borg sleeps on the train from Copenhagen and wakes not in Helsingor but in a mysterious, disused railway siding
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Afternoon Reading - Difference and Desire: Readings from the Bath Festival
Five stories on the themes of difference and desire, from the 2007 Bath Literary Festival
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Afternoon Reading - Elvis In Prestwick
Series of stories celebrating 50 years since Elvis Presley's only trip to Britain, a brief stopover at a small Scottish airport on his return from military service in Germany
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Afternoon Reading - Empath Man
Series of three stories written and read by poet Matt Harvey featuring Empath Man, the 21st-century answer to Superman
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Afternoon Reading - Excused Games
Series of short stories by leading writers, performed by star readers, in which sports and games have some surprising effects on both children and adults
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Afternoon Reading - Flash!
Less is more in a series of 'flash fiction' by Tania Hershman, prize-winning exponent of this burgeoning literary form
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Afternoon Reading - Follow the Instructions
Specially commissioned stories exploring the ways in which we interact with technology and machines
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Afternoon Reading - For the Love of a Child
Three stories about relationships between adults and children, drawn from real-life
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Afternoon Reading - Foster
Evanna Lynch reads from Claire Keegan haunting story of childhood, loss and love, abridged by Neville Teller
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Afternoon Reading - Granta Stories
Pieces from the archives of the UK's most prestigious literary magazine as Granta celebrates its 100th edition
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Afternoon Reading - Hay-on-Wye Stories 2008
Stories from the renowned literary festival, read by the authors before an audience
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Afternoon Reading - I Got The Dog
Susie Maguire's trilogy of comic stories about the fallout from a break-up
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Afternoon Reading - I Was There Too!
Series of three stories about great historical moments, told from the perspective of unexpected and overlooked witnesses
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Afternoon Reading - I Was There Too!
Series of three stories about great historical moments, told from the perspective of unexpected and overlooked witnesses
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Afternoon Reading - If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
Series of stories from the debut collection by US author Robin Black
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Afternoon Reading - In Bookshops Now
Series featuring new and classic stories from collections all currently available and in print
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Afternoon Reading - In-Flight Entertainment
Series of short stories taken from Helen Simpson's new collection
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Afternoon Reading - In Her Element
Series of three readings by women writers that describe their personal connections with the Welsh landscape
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Afternoon Reading - Jennings' Little Hut
Mark Williams reads one of Anthony Buckeridge's classic school stories, abridged by Roy Apps
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Afternoon Reading - John B Keane Readings
Five readings from the work of the late Irish novelist and essayist John B Keane
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Afternoon Reading - Jura: Writers in Residence
Kathleen Jamie introduces work by leading writers inspired by the Isle of Jura, all of whom have taken up a residency on the idyllic Scottish island
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Afternoon Reading - Just William: Pursuin' Happiness
Series of classic stories by Richmal Crompton, read by Martin Jarvis
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Afternoon Reading - Liverpool Locations
Stories by writers with a Liverpool connection, inspired by the city's famous and forgotten places as it marks its year as European Capital Of Culture
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Afternoon Reading - Lost and Found
Series of three short stories by major writers which have only recently come to light
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Afternoon Reading - Lost in the Lanes
Series of short stories written by writers new to radio, all set in and around the Lanes of Brighton
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Afternoon Reading - Love in the Afternoon
Series of love stories by bestselling romantic novelists
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Afternoon Reading - Love of the World
Jim Norton reads from John McGahern's story, abridged by Neville Teller
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Afternoon Reading - Lyrical Ballads
A selection of poems from Wordsworth and Coleridge's 1798 collaboration which marked the beginning of the English Romantic poetry movement
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Afternoon Reading - Made in England
A series of five essays and poems written and read by major writers on the theme 'made in England'
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Afternoon Reading - Midsummer Tales
Series of three new short stories exploring the magical light and white nights of far northern summers
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Afternoon Reading - More from the Magic Roundabout
Series of short stories based on the vintage children's TV series, written by Eric Thompson and read by Emma Thompson
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Afternoon Reading - More Love in the Afternoon
Series of new short stories by leading romantic novelists
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Afternoon Reading - Mud: Stories of Sex and Love
Series of three stories from a new collection by Michele Roberts
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Afternoon Reading - Murder She Thought - Series 1
Series of compelling crime stories by women writers
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Afternoon Reading - Murder She Thought - Series 2
Series of compelling crime stories by women writers
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Afternoon Reading - North African Short Stories
Stories translated from Arabic for the London-based magazine Banipal, offering insights into social and cultural life in contemporary North Africa
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Afternoon Reading - Once Seen
Series of three stories inspired by a very modern small-ads phenomenon
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Afternoon Reading - One More Year
Series of stories from the debut collection by Sana Krasikov, exploring the experiences of characters who leave the former Soviet Union for a new life in America
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Afternoon Reading - Ones to Watch (Volume 2)
A talent showcase of unpublished work from new writers
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Afternoon Reading - Overheard
Series of specially commissioned short stories based on snatches of overheard conversation
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Afternoon Reading - Parlez-vous British?
New and classic tales that reveal the best and worst aspects of the British abroad
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Afternoon Reading - Penelope's People
Series of three monologues performed by Penelope Keith, presenting resourceful characters responding very differently to big changes in their lives
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Afternoon Reading - Perspectives
Series of stories about people approaching something familiar from a different point of view
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Afternoon Reading - Points of Entry
Series of readings that reflect the experience of immigrants to the UK over the past 60 years
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Afternoon Reading - Portraits of East Anglia
Stories by local authors, inspired by paintings of the East Anglian landscape. Recorded in front of an audience in Halesworth, Suffolk, the readings are introduced by Neil Innes
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Afternoon Reading - Readings From Bath
Series of three stories by Bath writers from the stage of the city's Literature Festival
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Afternoon Reading - Red Herrings
That most effective weapon in the crime writer's arsenal, the red herring, inspires these new stories by leading exponents of the genre. With a guaranteed twist in the tale!
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Afternoon Reading - Red Herrings
That most effective weapon in the crime writer's arsenal, the red herring, inspires these new stories by leading exponents of the genre. With a guaranteed twist in the tale!
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Afternoon Reading - Red Mountain, Yellow River
Short stories by writers from the Chinese diaspora about life in modern China
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Afternoon Reading - Remember Me
Holly Aird reads a specially commissioned psychological suspense thriller by Nicci French
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Afternoon Reading - Rhys Davies Award Winners
Series of three stories from the Welsh short story competition
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Afternoon Reading - Sentences
Five stories by men and women who have lived, worked and served in prison
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Afternoon Reading - SOS: Save Our Souls
Five stories to mark the 100th anniversary of the international distress call
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Afternoon Reading - Sputnik
A selection of stories celebrating the Russian satellite which started the space race in 1957
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Afternoon Reading - Stories from the Bath Literature Festival
Readings from the prestigious West Country event
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Afternoon Reading - Stories with Latitude
Five stories recorded on stage at the 2007 Latitude Festival in Suffolk
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Afternoon Reading - Stories with Latitude
Readings recorded on stage at the Latitude Festival in Suffolk
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Afternoon Reading - Stories with Latitude
Readings recorded on stage at the Latitude Festival in Suffolk
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Afternoon Reading - Strange Things Done in the Midnight Sun
Series of famous narrative poems
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Afternoon Reading - Sunshine and Showers
Stories exploring the nature of our relationship with the British weather
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Afternoon Reading - Tales From Tate Modern
Series of specially-commissioned stories to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the opening of Tate Modern
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Afternoon Reading - Tales From The Low Countries
Series of evocative new stories set in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg
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Afternoon Reading - Tapertime
Series of five specially-commissioned short stories that take dusk as a central theme or feature
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Afternoon Reading - Telling the World
Series of stories from cultures and folklore around the world
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Afternoon Reading - The A-Z of Dr Johnson: Johnson's Miscellany
Series of readings featuring extracts from Samuel Johnson's major works, read by Michael Pennington and introduced by Johnson's biographer and Professor of English at King's College, David Nokes
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Afternoon Reading - The Adventures of Mr Thake
Leslie Phillips reads the letters, out of print since the 1930s, sent to the columnist Beachcomber from the calamitous travels abroad of fictional upper-class twit, Oswald Bletisloe Hattersley Thake
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Afternoon Reading - The Big Chill
Specially commissioned stories exploring the darker side of life
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Afternoon Reading - The Burying of Joe Bloggs
Series of three stories by Frances Fyfield examining the life of the deceased Joe Bloggs from the perspectives of those who knew - or thought they knew - him best
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Afternoon Reading - The Curiosities of the Egyptian Hall
Series of three stories inspired by the Victorian venue in Piccadilly in London, famed as the home of magic, spectacle, freak shows and pseudo-scientific demonstrations
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Afternoon Reading - The Diaries of Edith Appleton
Series of three readings featuring extracts from the diaries of Edith Appleton, a nurse working close to the front line during the First World War
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Afternoon Reading - The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets
Series of chilling tales from crime writer Sophie Hannah's first short story collection
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Afternoon Reading - The Further Adventures of the First King of Mars
Peter Capaldi reads from Nick Walker's comic sci-fi adventure
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Afternoon Reading - The Greengrocer's Apostrophe
Comic tales inspired by those hand-written signs offering "Apple's and Banana's" which can be found in every town in Britain
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Afternoon Reading - The Hair of the Dog
Short story by Jane Gardam. Humour and tenderness colour Eleanor's reflections on her daughter Rosie's wedding 25 years before. Abridged by Jules Wilkinson.
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Afternoon Reading - The Heart of Saturday Night
Series of three stories inspired by the unique music of Tom Waits
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Afternoon Reading - The National Short Story Award 2008
Readings of the stories short-listed for this year's BBC National Short Story Award. The stories are read by a selection of the nation's leading acting talent.
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Afternoon Reading - The Other Garden and Collected Stories by Francis Wyndham
Stories by short fiction writer Francis Wyndham, recalling England in the 1940s
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Afternoon Reading - The Reading Group Stories
Stories commissioned by readers' groups in the West Midlands, recorded at the Birmingham Book Festival
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Afternoon Reading - The Treasure Chest
Series of three comic mysteries by 19th century German author Johann Peter Hebel, read by Mark Williams
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Afternoon Reading - The Uncommon Reader
Alan Bennett reads from his book about a monarch for whom literature is an all-consuming interest
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Afternoon Reading - The Victorian Clown: The Circus Memories of James Frowde
Tales of Victorian circus life read by Tony Lidington
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Afternoon Reading - The Writing Life
Novelist AL Kennedy, who spices up the isolation of the day job with a sideline in stand-up comedy, presents three despatches from the sharp end of the writing life
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Afternoon Reading - Three Short Stories by E Nesbit
A series of stories for adults by the author of The Railway Children
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Afternoon Reading - Three Stories By Giovanni Verga
Series of stories about farming folk by the Sicilian writer of the 1870s, laced with dry humour
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Afternoon Reading - Three Stories by Haruki Murakami
Series of three short stories by the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, taken from his collection Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
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Afternoon Reading - Three Stories by Mark Twain
Series of Mark Twain's classic short stories
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Afternoon Reading - Three Women in a Motorhome
Series of stories by Sue Teddern about three women who take a short but eventful trip in a mobile home, written to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Jerome K Jerome
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Afternoon Reading - Too Much Happiness
Series of short stories from the new collection by Canadian author Alice Munro
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Afternoon Reading - Travelling Light
Three tales by Tove Jansson, each focusing on a journey
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Afternoon Reading - Treasure Island
John le Carre reads Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure story, abridged by Katrin Williams
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Afternoon Reading - Unaccustomed Earth
Stories from a brilliant new collection by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri exploring the dark secrets of family life, all linked by the Bengali immigrant experience
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Afternoon Reading - Vanilla Bright Like Eminem
Richard Schiff reads a short story by Michael Faber, abridged by Richard Hamilton. A husband and father is close to experiencing the happiest moment of his life.
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Afternoon Reading - Walk the Blue Fields
A selection of stories from Claire Keegan's collection
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Afternoon Reading - Wayfarers All: A Hundred Years of The Wind in the Willows
Five short stories inspired by the main characters in The Wind in the Willows, to mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of Kenneth Grahame's children's classic
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Afternoon Reading - We Are Stardust, We Are Golden
Series of stories celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival
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Afternoon Reading - Welsh Accent
Series of three stories set in different parts of Wales to showcase the many voices of the nation
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Afternoon Reading - Welsh Rarebits
Series of three new short stories from Wales by established and lesser-known authors
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Afternoon Reading - What I Learned from the Metaphysical Poets
Short stories inspired by the poetry of John Donne, George Herbert and Andrew Marvell
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Afternoon Reading - Why, Robot?
Series of stories inspired by Issac Asimov's three laws of robotics
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Afternoon Reading - Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
Offbeat love stories from a variety of writers
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Afternoon Reading - Winnie the Pooh
Series of three extracts from AA Milne's children's classic, read by Alan Bennett
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Afternoon Reading - Wireless Connections
Short stories exploring the phenomenon of personal broadcasting
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Afternoon Reading - Women at War
Series of short stories by and about women, written during the Second World War
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Afternoon Reading - Young Turks
Series of short stories marking Istanbul's tenure as European City of Culture
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