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Listen to Hunger and Thirst on BBC Radio 4 this May!

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Screenshot of the BBC Radio 4 page featuring 'Hunger and Thirst' by Claire Fuller. Includes details about Episode 1, airing on May 11, 2026, at 22:45, along with information about the author and production credits.

I’m absolutely delighted to let you know that Hunger and Thirst has been selected for the BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime slot. It will be broadcast on Radio 4 starting on 11th May at 22.45. It has been abridged into ten 14 minute parts and I’m curious to know what Sian Preece has kept in and what has been discarded.

It is read by actor, Juliet Aubrey, and produced by Eilidh McCreadie. I hope you manage to have a listen, but do keep in mind that apparently Book at Bedtime books lose 80%! So if you’d like to buy the full version, have a look here.

Happy reading. Sleep well!

Baker, Emily and Me

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Last Friday, whilst I was at The End of the Road Festival in Dorset, my short story (Baker, Emily and Me) which won the BBC Radio 4 Opening Lines competition was broadcast. My lovely husband bought me a tiny portable radio just for the occasion, and at a quarter past three we went back to our tent to listen. That was of course a half hour early, so I heard quite a lot of what to do with your climbing hydrangeas on Gardeners’ Question Time before my story came on.

So, here’s a picture of me listening, with the handy camping toilet roll beside me.

If you fancy listening to a 15 minute story it’s available here until Friday. Make sure to let me know what you think. (Although the audio recording was only available for a week, you can read Baker, Emily and Me, on the BBC website.)

Or you can both listen and watch the best band at the festival – St. Paul and The Broken Bones, here.

Just don’t ask me about hydrangeas; I was too excited.