The Guardian UK Culture Podcast

Rhianna Dhillon reveals the final nominees in this year’s British Podcast awards. With the winners announced on Saturday, sample shows from Russell Brand, Penguin Books and more

All this week Rhianna Dhillon is playing the hits from the British Podcast Award 2018 nominees. Today, it’s the best culture, sports and interview podcasts

Rhianna Dhillon explores this year’s nominees for the best family, fiction and most original podcast

Rhianna Dhillon reveals the nominees for best comedy and true crime podcasts at this year’s British Podcast Awards

Sample the choice cuts all this week from this year’s nominees in this Guardian taster series. Today: the best new and current affairs shows.

Cafe Oto co-founder Hamish Dunbar guides us through some of his favourite recordings from the renowned east London experimental music venue

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the world-renowned experimental music venue, musicians, staff and volunteers tell the story of how an abandoned Dalston paint factory was transformed into a vibrant international hub of creativity. Featuring Thurston Moore, David Toop, and more

Events come to a head in the final episode of our audio drama series. Will the wedding even take place?

A series of answerphone messages reveal what really happened in 2007

Can Daniel discover the truth before it’s too late?

Charlotte uncovers a decade of deceit in the third episode of our audio drama podcast

Charlotte arrives at the wedding venue, and makes an unexpected discovery

Ten years after university, a group of friends gather for a wedding in the Lake District. But all is not as it seems...

Gnocchi or nookie? For our last meal in this series about British mealtimes, it’s a romantic dinner for two as host Hersha Patel explores how our food habits have changed over the years – and celebrates the art of eating together

In this series about British mealtimes, host Hersha Patel explores how our food habits have changed over the years. This week, it’s time to find the perfect recipe for a duvet day

In this series about British mealtimes, host Hersha Patel explores how our food habits have changed over the years – and celebrates the art of eating together. This week it’s time to have friends and family round for a dinner party

In this series about British mealtimes, host Hersha Patel explores how our food habits have changed over the years – and celebrates the art of eating together. This week speed and comfort rule with TV dinners

In this series about British mealtimes, host Hersha Patel explores how our food habits have changed over the years – and celebrates the art of eating together. First up, the traditional Sunday lunch

Get inspired with this pick of the smartest series made in Britain, as chosen by the judges of the British Podcast Awards 2017.

Looking to lose yourself in a new podcast? Rhianna Dhillon explores the best entertainment, sport and review podcasts of the past year, according to the British Podcast Awards

Looking for a podcast that can make sense of our world? Rhianna Dhillon showcases the British Podcast Award nominees for Best Interview and Current Affairs series, plus the Represent award for reaching new audiences

Rhianna Dhillon shares the best new podcasts – and the most original formats – as chosen by judges of the British Podcast awards 2017

Looking for a new podcast? Rhianna Dhillon shares the best moments in Comedy, Fiction and True Crime from the nominees for the British Podcast Awards 2017.

Dr Bradley Garrett has been exploring the forbidden parts of cities since he was a teenager. He talks to Stephen Moss about scaling skyscrapers, sneaking into sewers and the two-year court trial that almost ended it all • Find out how to experience Underworld, the Guardian’s virtual reality exploration of the sewers, guided by Bradley Garrett

In our fourth exclusive sound story celebrating Britain’s forests, the Granta young British novelist Evie Wyld reads her unsettling tale of marital tension at the end of times

In the third of our series of exclusive sound stories celebrating Britain’s forests, the Scottish poet and artist Alec Finlay reads his tale of a mythical submerged woodland

In the second of our series of exclusive sound stories celebrating Britain’s forests, Alan Garner reads his own tale of a newcomer who finds ‘ancient noise’ beneath the choked underlife of of Cheshire’s woodlands • Listen to The Green Stuff by Ali Smith

In the first of a series of exclusive sound stories inspired by the UK’s woodlands, the award-winning writer weaves a spellbinding tale from an encounter between a boy and a strange green child

In an audio play specially commissioned for the Guardian by Soho Theatre, a fisherman confronts the tide of refugees sweeping across the Mediterranean

Forty years after he first read it, Sebastian Barry returns to James Joyce’s short story Eveline

Rabindranath Tagore returned again and again to the voiceless women of Bengal, as in his short story The Postmaster, says Anita Desai

Lucy Wood builds a story from glimpses and suggestions in ‘Notes from the House Spirits’, says Jon McGregor

Yiyun Li reads William Trevor’s ‘Three People’, a short story which moved her to write a story in reply, ‘Gold Boy, Emerald Girl’

Penelope Fitzgerald looks at the world anew in her short story ‘At Hiruharama’, says AS Byatt

Franz Kafka’s story of a man who starves himself for entertainment, The Hunger Artist, is ‘absurb, moving and timely’, says Hanif Kureishi

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie admires the ‘old-fashioned social realism’ of Ama Ata Aidoo’s ‘No Sweetness Here’

José Saramago tackles the conflict between mind and body in ‘The Centaur’, says Nadine Gordimer

Charles Dickens celebrated Christmas throughout his writing life. His autobiographical story ‘A Christmas Tree’ is ‘almost Proustian’, says Simon Callow

Ruth Rendell doesn’t believe in ghosts, of course, but MR James’s stories, like ‘Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook’, frighten her nonetheless

Despite their restraint, Raymond Carver’s ‘early-period’ stories, such as The Student’s Wife, are full to the brim, says Richard Ford

Zadie Smith launches our winter series of short stories with an almost ‘anti-Italian’ story from Giuseppe Pontiggia, ‘Umberto Buti’

Lauren's studio guest at the Edinburgh festival is veteran Comedy Store Player Neil Mullarkey, who reveals how improv can improve your life, while Jon Holmes explores the set for a Polish version of the Scottish play – 2008: Macbeth

Welcome to the final edition of our 12-part collaboration with theatre producers Fuel and Roundhouse Radio, each of which is created by a different artist – from theatre-makers and poets to composers and comedians – and free to download. Our latest playlet is by Bobby Baker and is designed to be listened to, as the artist puts it, "any old time when the shops are open, driving on a flyover, searching for Christmas presents"

Welcome to the eleventh edition of our 12-part collaboration with theatre producers Fuel and Roundhouse Radio, each of which is created by a different artist – from theatre-makers and poets to composers and comedians – and free to download. Our latest playlet is by Adrian Howells and is designed to be listened to in the early hours of the morning, in bed with a hot drink

Welcome to the tenth edition of our 12-part collaboration with theatre producers Fuel and Roundhouse Radio, each of which is created by a different artist – from theatre-makers and poets to composers and comedians – and free to download. Our latest performance is Late Night Rain by Lemn Sissay and is designed to be listened to exactly then – late at night

Jemima Kiss examines plans for a digital public space with the British Library, the Royal Opera House and the BBC

This is the ninth edition of our 12-part collaboration with theatre producers Fuel and Roundhouse Radio, each of which is created by a different artist – from theatre-makers and poets to composers and comedians – and free to download. Our latest playlet is by Melanie Wilson, and is designed to be listened to in the bathroom in the evening with the door closed and standing in front of the mirror

This is the eighth edition of our 12-part collaboration with theatre producers Fuel and Roundhouse Radio, each of which is created by a different artist – from theatre-makers and poets to composers and comedians – and free to download. Our latest podcast playlet is by comedian Josie Long, and is designed to be listened to at 5.30pm in an express supermarket

This is the seventh edition of our 12-part collaboration with theatre producers Fuel and Roundhouse Radio, each of which is created by a different artist – from theatre-makers and poets to composers and comedians – and free to download. This month's podcast is by film-maker Nick Whitfield, and is designed to be listened to first thing in the morning, with a cup of coffee, as an excuse to delay starting work

If a newspaper could talk, what might it sound like? To celebrate the 2011 Manchester festival, Francesca Panetta and Tim Hinman create unique soundscapes from four historic editions of the Guardian and Observer. Programme four: the IRA Arndale bomb