BBC Scotland Nature Writing and Stories McLevy BBC RADIO 4 | SHORT READINGS BBC RADIO 4 | AFTERNOON DRAMA SUNDAY 7; 14; & 21 SEPTEMBER 19:45 TO BE BROADCAST IN 2015 The Bone Clocks The Meet-Cute RADIO DRAMA BBC RADIO 4 | BOOK AT BEDTIME BBC RADIO 4 | AFTERNOON DRAMA SUNDAY 22 SEPTEMBER - 10 OCTOBER 22:45 WEDNESDAY 31 DECEMBER 14:15 Out There BBC RADIO 4 | SHORT READINGS SUNDAY 28 SEPTEMBER; 5 & 12 OCTOBER 19:45 Going Spare BBC RADIO SCOTLAND | DRAMA TUESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 13:32 Moyamensing: Scenes From The Life, Death & Dreams Of Illustration by Iain McIntosh Edgar Allan Poe BBC RADIO SCOTLAND | DRAMA FRIDAY 31 OCTOBER 15:05 Lanark BBC RADIO 4 | SATURDAY DRAMA SATURDAY 8 NOVEMBER 14:30 Forensics R4 BOOK OF THE WEEK TX 10-14 NOVEMBER Planning Permission BBC RADIO 4 | AFTERNOON DRAMA THURSDAY 13 NOVEMBER 14:15 The Dead of Fenwick Moor BBC RADIO SCOTLAND | DRAMA MONDAY 17 NOVEMBER 13:32 Behind Closed Doors BBC RADIO 4 | AFTERNOON DRAMA MONDAY 1; TUESDAY 2; & WEDNESDAY 3 DECEMBER 14:15 Academy Street BBC RADIO 4 | BOOK AT BEDTIME MONDAY 8 - FRIDAY 19 DECEMBER 22:45 The Giffnock Girls BBC RADIO 4 | AFTERNOON DRAMA TUESDAY 16 DECEMBER 14:15 Dogfood Diary BBC RADIO 4 | AFTERNOON DRAMA FRIDAY 19 DECEMBER 14:15 RADIO DRAMA Nature Writing Out There Forensics and Stories By Allan Radcliffe; by Val McDermid Tat Usher and R4 BOOK OF THE WEEK By Jessie Kesson TX 10-14 NOVEMBER BBC RADIO 4 | SHORT READINGS Kerry Hudson SUNDAY 7; 14; & 21 SEPTEMBER 19:45 BBC RADIO 4 | SHORT READINGS A thrilling read taking in the science and history SUNDAY 28 SEPTEMBER; 5 & 12 OCTOBER 19:45 of criminal policing from best-selling Scottish A series of readings from the work of the crime writer Val McDermid. acclaimed Scottish author Jessie Kesson. Best The Bone Stories from a new anthology celebrating the known for her novels "Another Time, Another Producer: Allegra McIlroy work of Scottish Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Place" and "The White Bird Passes", Jessie Clocks Transgender writers. Kesson's writing was often inspired by events By David Mitchell; Outing by Allan Radcliffe from her own life and by the landscape of North abridged by Robin Brooks Read by Liam Brennan Academy East Scotland. The first episode, "Country BBC RADIO 4 | BOOK AT BEDTIME A man sits on a station platform reflecting back Dweller's Year", features extracts from a journal SUNDAY 22 SEPTEMBER - 10 OCTOBER 22:45 on his life and on the love he’s experienced Street she kept for the Scots Magazine during 1946; in exclusively behind closed doors. episode two, "Cold in Coventry" a young girl by Mary Costello; This ambitious, much-anticipated new novel from The Constant Heart by Tat Usher fears for her future when she is sacked from her abridged by the author of Cloud Atlas is one to lose yourself Read by Jimmy Chisholm first job in service; and, finally, "Until Such Times" in. A quirky tale about a down-trodden baker living Kirsteen Cameron a child is bewildered by the ways of the adult The Bone Clocks is an intricate feat of storytelling on a Scottish island. BBC RADIO 4 | BOOK AT BEDTIME world. The readers are Claire Knight, Lizzy Watts revealing one woman's life through those who Grown on this Beach by Kerry Hudson MONDAY 8 - FRIDAY 19 DECEMBER 22:45 and Helen Mackay. encounter her. The journey has a global and Read by Meg Fraser A touching and poetic story about a woman Debut literary novel by the accomplished Irish Producer: Kirsteen Cameron historical sweep, taking us from 1980s Kent via 19th Century Australia to a near future New York talking through her past relationships with her short story writer Mary Costello. Academy Street with a playfully genre-bending subplot. new found love. recounts the life of Irish farmer’s daughter, Tess, in a series of spare vignettes that are punctuated Our Book at Bedtime will be read by a stellar Producer/director: Kirsty Williams by beautifully evoked epiphanies; opening with cast of five actors over three weeks. We open Tess aged seven and trying to understand her with Hannah Arterton as Holly Sykes, 15 years mother’s death, through to her emigration to old in 1980s Gravesend. Then Luke Treadaway is America to work as a nurse in New York; a Cambridge student Hugo Lamb, likeable, good passionate ‘encounter’ with a friend of a friend looking, and extremely dangerous. Joe who leaves her pregnant after their one night Armstrong is Ed Bruebeck, a foreign correspond- together and her struggle to raise her son, Theo, ent in the current decade, struggling to overcome alone. MISSED SOMETHING? the gaps between his life at home and the loss Remember you can listen again to all of our Played out against the backdrop of American life he experiences daily at work. Robert Glenister is programmes for seven days after broadcast on over forty years, it resonates with the rhythms of Crispin Hershey, once the wild child of British memory and of home, as well as those of letters, a novelist now past his best-selling peak. America’s greatest city. It tells an intimate story And Laurel Lefkow is Dr Marinus, a psychiatrist via the following websites: about love, loss and longing, and the perpetual from the seventh century who meets Holly Sykes bbc.co.uk/radio3 ache for belonging. bbc.co.uk/radio4 in a near-future America. bbc.co.uk/radio4extra Producer: Kirsteen Cameron bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Producer: Allegra McIlroy Lanark Credits - Lanark Book cover artwork © Alasdair Gray Moyamensing: Behind Closed Book cover executed © James Hutcheson By Alasdair Gray Scenes From Doors Dramatised for radio by The Life, Death & by Clara Glynn BBC RADIO 4 | AFTERNOON DRAMA Robin Brooks with Dreams Of Edgar Allan Poe MONDAY 1; TUESDAY 2; & Alasdair Gray WEDNESDAY 3 DECEMBER 14:15 BBC RADIO 4 | SATURDAY DRAMA by Marty Ross BBC RADIO SCOTLAND DRAMA Behind Closed Doors follows London barrister SATURDAY 8 NOVEMBER 14:30 | Rebecca Nyman as she takes on three very FRIDAY 31 OCTOBER 15:05 different legal cases: The first radio dramatisation of Alasdair Gray’s Recorded live at the CCA Glasgow. CATASTROPHIC INJURY – Jane Gibson is modern masterpiece and cult classic. Edgar Allan Poe - drunk, desolate, death- fighting for compensation from an NHS Hospital, Lanark is a novel that changed the face of haunted - finds things getting worse as he is claiming that a midwife’s negligence caused her Scottish literature for a generation and propelled locked overnight in Philadelphia's Moyamensing baby’s Cerebral Palsy. The compensation award the visual artist Alasdair Gray into the literary Prison where his worst nightmares await him. An is crucial for her to offset the additional costs obscure but true incident from the closing act of limelight. It’s a novel that spans 3 worlds in four she will have to ensure the best care for her son. Poe's tragic life inspires a surreal, scary and books, and tells the connected stories of A BAD NIGHT OUT– Following a late night darkly comic psychological portrait of the tragic Duncan Thaw – an art student at Glasgow’s Art altercation Rafid was arrested for assaulting a genius. School – and Lanark – a man who finds himself police officer and held in custody overnight. But out of context in a world both familiar and Poe left an account not only of his incarceration the events of that night are disputed and now in Moyamensing, but also of the hallucinations he strange… he’s making a claim against the police for false suffered therein: horrors to match anything in his imprisonment. Lanark arrives in Unthank, a city with no sun and fiction, but strange beauties too. Follow him EXCLUDED – Thirteen year old Cassius has no sense of time. It’s an endless present, but through encounters with sinister guards, hungry been excluded from his school. He’s been there are ways to escape – people disappear rats, a murderous doppelganger and a surgeon accused of bringing a knife onto the premises mysteriously, others succumb to the strange over-keen to wield his saw on the living, but also a meeting with a sublimely beautiful woman and persistently breaking rules. Set at a ‘School diseases this peculiar form of hell generates. echoing more than one of the women Poe loved Exclusion Hearing’ the school governors have to Lanark’s escape will take him into another circle and lost. decide whether the exclusion should be of hell where he’ll hear the story of a life that was Starring John Kielty as Edgar Allan Poe. permanent. Rebecca is representing Cassius once his and where the life he now lives will and his mother. Cast: change forever. Producer/director: David Ian Neville Lanark ….......Sandy Grierson Producer/director: David Ian Neville Rima …..........Melody Grove Oracle….........Siobhan Redmond Gloopy…........James Anthony Pearson Sludden…......Robbie Jack Gay…............Claire Knight Ozenfant .......Finlay Welsh MacKenzie.....Angela Darcy Arthur….........Liam Brennan Nastler….......Alasdair Gray Producer/director: Kirsty Williams Going Spare The Giffnock McLevy The Meet-Cute By Danny McCahon Girls by David Ashton by Ben Lewis BBC RADIO SCOTLAND | DRAMA BBC RADIO 4 | AFTERNOON DRAMA BBC RADIO 4 | AFTERNOON DRAMA TUESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 13:32 by Marcella Evaristi TO BE BROADCAST IN 2015 WEDNESDAY 31 DECEMBER 14:15 BBC RADIO 4 | AFTERNOON DRAMA Touching contemporary drama about Rosie, a young TUESDAY 16 DECEMBER 14:15 The popular Victorian detective drama set in Leith A Kaufman-esque rom-com. returns for its penultimate series. mum who has lost nearly everything she held dear. Now Aspiring screenwriter meets girl-next-door.