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Alan Bennett reads an extract from his latest colecction of diaries, Keeping On Keeping On (2016).

Alan Bennett reads an excerpt from Keeping On Keeping On, out now from Faber & Faber and Profile Books.

Alan Bennett reads from his latest collection of prose, Keeping On Keeping On (co-published by Faber and Profile Books, 2016).

Alan Bennett reads an excerpt from his diary, published in Keeping On Keeping On (Faber & Faber/Profile Books, 2016).

Jenny Agutter reads from the audiobook of P.D. James' The Mistletoe Murder. As the acknowledged 'Queen of Crime', P. D. James was frequently commissioned by newspapers and magazines to write a special short story for Christmas. Four of the best of these have been drawn from the archives and published here. P. D. James's prose illuminates each of these perfectly formed stories, making them ideal re...

Michael Dickman reads "Dead Brother Superhero" from the collection Brother, dual-authored by Michael Dickman and his twin brother Matthew Dickman.

American poet Matthew Dickman reads "Satellite" from the dual-authored volume Brother by Matthew Dickman and Michael Dickman.

Michael Dickman reads "Killing Flies", a poem from the dual-authored collection Brother by Michael Dickman and Matthew Dickman.

Matthew Dickman reads his poem "Cloud", which features in the collection Brother by Matthew Dickman and Michael Dickman.

The American poets, and twin brothers, Matthew and Michael Dickman discuss their working practices, poetic influences and their new dual-authored collection Brother with George Miller.

American poet Michael Dickman reads "The New Green" from the collection Brother by Michael Dickman and Matthew Dickman.

Listen to Matthew Dickman read his poem "My Brother's Grave", taken from the new dual-authored volume Brother by Matthew Dickman and Michael Dickman.

The poet Frederick Seidel reads "Robespierre" taken from his latest collection, Widening Income Inequality.

The acclaimed American poet Frederick Seidel reads the poem "France Now" from his new collection, Widening Income Inequality.

A track inspired by Melissa Harrison's book RAIN, made using field recordings of English rainfall. Artist anonymous.

In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer...

'Rain: Four Walks in English Weather' is an evocative meditation on the English landscape in wet weather by the acclaimed novelist and nature writer, Melissa Harrison. In this podcast she reads from the book and explains how and why she went about exploring the countryside in its most quintessentially English weather. Whenever rain falls, our countryside changes. Fields, farms, hills and hedgerows...

As her first two poetry collections - 'Night Photograph' and 'A World Where News Travelled Slowly' - are reissued, the acclaimed poet Lavinia Greenlaw reflects on her earliest experiences of writing poetry - and considers how she has developed as a writer since then.

Listen to Edward Dusinberre, first violinist for the Takács Quartet, discuss his new book 'Beethoven for a Later Age', which gives new insight into the life of a classical music performer, as well as the workings of one of the world's most famous string quartets.

1956 was a year of of exhilarating triumphs and shattering defeats around the world. Here historian Simon Hall discusses the year and his book 1956: The World in Revolt. Popular uprisings in Poland and Hungary shake Moscow's hold on its eastern European empire. Across the American South, and in the Union of South Africa, black people risk their livelihoods, and their lives, in the struggle to dism...

Faber New Poets 10 is Will Burns's debut poetry pamphlet, as part of an innovative publishing programme supporting the best in the next generation of poets, from Faber & Faber in partnership with Arts Council England. Here he reads Transmission from the collection.

Faber New Poets 10 is Will Burns's debut poetry pamphlet, as part of an innovative publishing programme supporting the best in the next generation of poets, from Faber & Faber in partnership with Arts Council England. Here he reads In the Bar at the Golden Heart Hotel from the collection.

Faber New Poets 12 is Declan Ryan's debut poetry pamphlet, as part of an innovative publishing programme supporting the best in the next generation of poets, from Faber & Faber in partnership with Arts Council England. Here he reads Ethiopia Shall Stretch Forth Her Hands.

Faber New Poets 12 is Declan Ryan's debut poetry pamphlet, as part of an innovative publishing programme supporting the best in the next generation of poets, from Faber & Faber in partnership with Arts Council England. Here he reads When We Were Kings.

Faber New Poets 10 is Will Burns's debut poetry pamphlet, as part of an innovative publishing programme supporting the best in the next generation of poets, from Faber & Faber in partnership with Arts Council England. Here he reads Guy from the collection.