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Tumbling from one love entanglement to another, 30-something teacher Izzy Comyn has a predilection for inappropriate men. Over the three hilarious series of Up the Garden Path, Izzy, played by Imelda Staunton, deals with the complicated ups and downs of her attempts to find true love.

In Lost Sound, Jeff Porter examines the vital interplay between acoustic techniques and modernist practices in the growth of radio. Concentrating on the 1930s through the 1970s, but also speaking to the rising popularity of today's narrative broadcasts such as This American Life, Radiolab, Serial, and The Organist, Porter's close readings of key radio programs show how writers adapted literary techniques to an acoustic medium with great effect.

A tense, white-knuckle ride of a play from BBC Radio 4 in which a rather self-satisfied hero embarks, reluctantly, on a voyage of self-discovery. Originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 7 January 2009, and repeated on 31 March 2011.As an expert on memory loss, Greg Cooke is asked to invalidate the testimony of an eyewitness in a high-profile murder trial. He undermines the Prosecution's key witness by convincing the jury that we forget as much within 24 hours as we do over a whole year.

To the outside world Charlie Radcliffe was an esteemed businessman and philanthropist. But Charlie knew that he had swindled billions over decades from his wealthy clients and he knew that one day the game would be up. Now in prison, Charlie tells the story of his last hours of freedom to new inmate Sam.

Lord Rufford has kissed Arabella twice but she realises that much more needs to be done to win him and his estate. It is now time to tell John Morton she no longer wants to marry him? Starring Robert Glenister, Anna Maxwell Martin, Barbara Flynn, Blake Ritson, Stuart Milligan, Joanna David, Daniel Rabin, Penelope Rawlins, Carl Prekopp, Henry Devas, Elaine Claxton, Joanathan Forbes, Jane Whittenshaw, and Sean Baker. Directed by Tracey Neal. Dramatised by Martyn Wade.

Adapted and narrated by Caitlin Moran, this brand-new radio adaptation intersperses dramatised scenes from Moran's life (from her teenage years in a crowded council house in Wolverhampton, to setting out as a music journalist, to getting married and having children) with her thoughts on subjects that range from the necessity of big knickers to the experience of giving birth and having an abortion.

Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve was a popular character appearing regularly on The Fibber McGee & Molly Show. On August 31, 1941, the character landed his own situation comedy show, The Great Gildersleeve, becoming radio’s first spin-off. Gildy moved from the town of Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where he raised his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie (Lillian Randolph).

This is a fine, glad, happy, truestory set amid a small mining town in South Wales during the 1950s and '60s, as best-butties, Rhys and Ewan, turn their imaginations to finding endless new ways to escape the tedium of their childhood. Their future fame and fortune up for grabs, they take on everything from flying to horse racing, "carjacking", to "chemical experimentation". Even attempting to form The Valley’s answer to the Animals, Beatles, and Rolling Stones.

The original 1941 radio dramatization of Inspector Bonaparte Mystery—featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. The discovery of a stolen red monoplane on the dry flat bottom of Emu Lake meant many things for different folks. For Elizabeth Nettlefold, the chance to nurse its strangely ill passenger meant renewed purpose in life. For Dr. Knowles, brilliant physician and town drunk, it meant the revival of a romantic dream. For some it meant a murder plan gone awry, and for Bonaparte, it meant one of the toughest cases of his career.

今週の反省ファイナル「5分の使い方で人生は変わる」「ジェノサイド ＜上＞ 」「目は1分でよくなる!」「あなたの潜在能力を100%引き出すたった1つの方法」の4冊を紹介。

The annals of movie history are full of lost treasures - spectacular scripts from world-renowned writers that could have been classics, had they only been made. Now, for the first time, some of these forgotten gems have been brought to life, fully realised as vivid, cinematic radio productions. Scripted by major 20th-century writers, including Harold Pinter, Arthur Miller, Alfred Hitchcock and Dennis Potter, they star a host of A-list actors and feature richly evocative, atmospheric soundtracks.

石橋さんが今週オススメする一冊は「私は猫ストーカー - 完全版」。
猫をストーカーしている著者のエッセイ。コンセプトがとても面白い！

ゴーストタイトルライター「中谷彰広」　今日のヒトネタ「ICU図書館の悲壮な企画『誰も借りてくれない本』フェア」

編集部山田くんおすすめの「目利きの一冊」は「贋の侍女・愛の勝利」（マリヴォー／著　岩波書店／刊）をご紹介。

来場者全員にプレゼントする、朗読CDの収録で、朗読ナレーションをたっぷり楽しんだ矢島さんが、収録裏話をたっぷり語っちゃいます！

今週の反省「スマホ１台で月１００万円稼ぐ人になる！」の１冊を紹介。今日のヒトネタ「東京 有名人のお墓さんぽ」人文社

「今週の反省」は『「中国の終わり」のはじまり ～習近平政権、経済崩壊、反日の行方～』「球体の蛇」「新米司法書士・はるかの事件ファイル」の３冊よりふりかえります。

今月のゲストは、元・通産省官僚の政策コンサルタント、原英史さんです。１週目のテーマは、「日常に潜む規制、ビジネスの邪魔をする規制。アナタもいつの間にか損してるかも？」世の中の“おバカな規制”を斬っていきます…！

「新刊ラジオ＠第2部プレミアム」2011年7月配信分より、ニッポン放送アナウンサー・吉田尚記パッケージ版

六本木ヒルズ４９階「六本木ライブラリー」を社会化見学。本を介して文化や知識を共有する、他には類をみない空間を矢島と石橋が初体験。