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

James Salter, the veteran American novelist and short story writer, reads a story by Lydia Davis, winner of the 2013 Man Booker International prize

Jorge Luis Borges’s combination of the anecdotal, philosophical and the literary showed Will Self how to achieve the ‘truly veridical’. He gets his coordinates from ‘On Exactitude in Science’

Nathan Englander finds Jewish history, corruption and man’s inhumanity to man and pigeons in Isaac Babel’s ‘The Story Of My Dovecote’

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