Four Maeve Binchy short stories, exclusively written for BBC Radio 4.

Maeve Binchy is one of Britain’s most popular storytellers, and these four tales demonstrate the warmth and...

In the rainswept summer of 1968, Rose sets off for the United States from Kentish Town to meet a man she knows as Washington Harold, in her suitcase a polka-dot dress and a one-way ticket. In a...

David Soul stars in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Maeve Binchy's bestselling story about a sleepy Irish town facing monumental change. In Mountfern, life meanders as slowly as the river...

Velvet is a laundress in a Victorian steam laundry. With both her mother and father dead, she is an orphan and has to rely upon her own wits to make a living. The laundry's work is back-breaking...

Full-cast dramatisations of five Maeve Binchy short stories, specially adapted for BBC Radio 4's 'Woman's Hour'.Ireland is neither cursed with snakes, nor blessed with nightingales, and the...

Before World War II has even been officially declared, ten-year-old Hazel Morgan and her eight-year-old brother Peter are evacuated, leaving London for the safety of the Sussex countryside.With...

Virginia Woolf started to write a biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s spaniel after finishing 'The Waves', tracing the life of the spaniel from his country origins, his puppyhood spent...

A new adaptation of L.P. Hartley's story of a boy who is betrayed by a sophisticated young rich woman and her farmer lover who use him to ferry letters back and forth in the blazing summer of 1900...

Reserved, honourable Mr Malik. You wouldn't notice him in a Nairobi street - except, perhaps, to comment on his carefully sculpted combover - but beneath his unprepossessing exterior lies a warm...