Readings
Bringing non-fiction to life
In non-fiction, Loftus abridges the books everyone’s talking about and works with some of the most exciting writers around to create original and thought-provoking series for audio.
With over 25 years’ experience of production for BBC Radio 4 and beyond, we celebrate extraordinary personal stories and remarkable tales of the world around us. The authors themselves or acclaimed actors including Susannah Harker, Diana Quick, Tamsin Greig, Tuppence Middleton, Adrian Lukis bring them to life in a skilful blend of word and sound.
From Robert Macfarlane’s Is a River Alive?, Lara Estemirova’s memoir Please Live, Booker Prize-winner Arundhati Roy’s personal story Mother Mary Comes to Me, to Other, Leïla Slimani’s essays about belonging and not belonging, we craft beautiful, immersive audio experiences that surprise, captivate, and linger in the mind.
Production Team: Jo Rowntree, Kirsten Lass, Lisa Lipman, Jane Greenwood, Elizabeth Burke
Above image features Elizabeth McGovern reading from ‘This Is The Door’ by Darcey Steinke.
'Fingers In the Sparkle Jar'
Chris Packham reads from his lyrical and painfully honest memoir.
'Mother Mary Comes to Me'
Arundhati Roy looks back at her childhood in Kerala and her extraordinary and difficult mother, ‘my shelter, and my storm’.
'Beautiful Strangeness'
Rebecca Stott explores how closely the mysterious and the magical are woven into the ordinary and the everyday.
'The Pianist of Yarmouk'
Ammar Haj Ahmed at our studios for the recording of 'The Pianist of Yarmouk' by Aeham Ahmad