Josie Long hears stories of music and memory. From a song that proves your parents right - rock 'n roll really will lead you down a dangerous path - to the symphony that haunted one man's dreams for decades.

96 Tears

Piano Man

The Stage

Lullaby

Dream Symphony

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in May 2015.

Josie Long presents stories of intimate conversations. A 30-year-long conversation comes to an end, an undercover agent reveals how to flatter someone into prison and we discover the secrets of the 'dual form'.

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

Executive Producer: Alan Hall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in April 2015.

Josie Long hears stories of adaptation.

Plus two stories of adapting to extraordinary circumstances - members of the Arctic 30 adjust to their new life inside a Russian prison, and a researcher perched on top of a Hawaiian volcano tests her psychological capacity to live on another planet.

Taking part:

Mark McCrum

Producers Olivia Humphreys, Tim Hinman, Fiona Clampin

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2015.

From the first touch to the last kiss, Josie Long hears stories of love, loss and finding yourself.

An audio diary shines a light on how we rebuild ourselves after the end of a relationship, how a final kiss in a love affair holds us in a moment crackling with tension, and how a first touch offers a moment of tenderness.

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2015.

Josie Long hears stories of seeing double.

A baby monitor which opens up a terrifying world, an explorer who ventures into the unknown and a woman who longs to disappear into space.

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2015.

Josie Long hears stories of seeing double.

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2014.

Josie Long presents stories about absence and nothing.

A decades long murder mystery about the death of a man who never existed, the story of losing someone you never knew and a first time treasure hunter finds something against the odds but ends up with nothing.

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2014.

Josie Long presents tales of blackouts, late nights and bedtime stories.

Love found after a blackout, telephone counselling for bereaved rock star managers and erotica for the elderly.

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2014.

Josie Long peers behind the curtain to reveal stories from behind the scenes.

There's secret telephone discos for cold calling salesmen, moral dilemmas which emerge behind the scenes on a reality television show and Joe Dunthorne attempts to gain access to the OULIPO.

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2014.

A message in a bottle, cast into the ocean, reaches a woman who needs it.

A lifeboat adrift and isolated in icy waters and a crackling, radio connection offers a lifeline between friends.

Josie Long hears tales of making contact.

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2014.