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Forests of the Imagination

Fiona Stafford asks why artists are drawn to the imaginative possibilities of the forest.

• 14 mins

Christina Patterson: the Skin

Christina Patterson reflects on the skin and her own experience of living with acne.

• 14 mins

Daljit Nagra: the Lungs

Five writers choose an organ of the body on which to reflect. In this edition Daljit Nagra

• 14 mins

Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio

Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio: Samuel West

Actor Samuel West explores the art of performance and declarative language.

• 15 mins

Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio

Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio: Olivia O'Leary

Journalist and broadcaster Olivia O'Leary describes the influence of radio on her.

• 15 mins

Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio

Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio: David Hendy

Media professor and historian David Hendy on early anxieties about radio's power.

• 15 mins

Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio

Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio: Roger Phillips

Roger Phillips describes his job as the listening anchorman of a daily phone-in programme.

• 15 mins

Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio

Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio: Fi Glover

Broadcaster Fi Glover on how radio voices 'make the global local and the local global'.

• 15 mins

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio

Saint Ciappelletto

Terry Jones introduces a retelling from The Decameron. A man makes his deathbed confession

• 15 mins

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio

Federigo and His Falcon

Terry Jones introduces a retelling from The Decameron about a lovelorn man's quest.

• 15 mins

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio

How Elena Blew Hot and Cold

Terry Jones introduces a retelling from The Decameron. A young widow snubs the wrong man.

• 15 mins

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio

How to Get It off Your Chest

Terry Jones with a retelling from The Decameron. A man finds his wife with his best friend

• 15 mins

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio

Kind Hearts and Bayonets

Terry Jones introduces a retelling from The Decameron about virtuous men in a dirty world.

• 15 mins

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio

The Sweetest Young Man in Perugia

Terry Jones with a retelling of a story from The Decameron about a dissatisfied young wife

• 15 mins

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio

The Wager

Terry Jones introduces a retelling from The Decameron. A casual bet changes three lives.

• 15 mins

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio

A Job for the Boys

Terry Jones introduces a retelling from The Decameron about a man posing as a deaf mute.

• 15 mins

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio

Love Lies Sleeping

Terry Jones presents a retelling from The Decameron about loves which lead us to disaster.

• 15 mins

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio

A Quiet Night in Naples

Terry Jones presents a retelling from The Decameron about adventures which end in triumph.

• 15 mins

Living Abroad

England

Writer Frederic Raphael recalls living in wartime Britain as a boy.

• 15 mins

Living Abroad

France

Frederic Raphael recalls his life as a young writer in the post-war Paris of Sartre.

• 15 mins

Living Abroad

Spain

Writer Frederic Raphael recalls living in Franco's Spain during the late 1950s.

• 15 mins

Living Abroad

Italy

Writer Frederic Raphael recalls living in early 1960s Italy.

• 15 mins

Living Abroad

Greece

Writer Frederic Raphael recalls living in Greece in the early 1960s.

• 15 mins

I've Never Told Anyone This Before

Tod Wodicka - The Reluctant Shaman

Writer Tod Wodicka describes suffering terrifying night terrors when he was younger.

• 15 mins

I've Never Told Anyone This Before

Kei Miller - The Important Things

The Forward Prize-winning Jamaican poet, novelist and critic examines some awkward truths.

• 14 mins

I've Never Told Anyone This Before

Erica Wagner - A History of My Family in One Object

Erica Wagner examines her mother's stories about her father and an unusual wedding gift.

• 15 mins

I've Never Told Anyone This Before

Jane Stevenson - An Uneasy Feeling

Writer Jane Stevenson tells the true story of an unusual encounter during house-hunting.

• 15 mins

I've Never Told Anyone This Before

5. Suzanne Joinson - 'Somebody Else's Story'

Novelist and market enthusiast Suzanne Joinson shares a story she has never told before.

• 15 mins

World War One Round the World

St Petersburg - White Flowers and Revolution

Novelist Tatyana Tolstaya tells a St Petersburg audience how World War I changed Russia.

• 15 mins

World War One Round the World

London - Shell Shock and the Shock of Shells

Joanna Bourke on the emotional, cultural and physical impact of WWI shelling on soldiers.

• 15 mins