Frozen Tears by Mark Haddon
Ellie is trying to break up with her boyfriend. But it's Christmas. A new short story by Mark Haddon about a winter journey, inspired by Schubert's song cycle. Read by Lydia Wilson
Ellie has been trying, but failing, to break up with her boyfriend. And now it's Christmas and they're both staying in Ellie's mum's house in the countryside.
A new short story by Mark Haddon (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) about a winter journey, inspired by Schubert's song cycle. Read by Lydia Wilson (Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue, About Time, The Maids).
Produced by Emma Harding, BBC Audio Wales
Last on
More episodes
Next
Coming soon
Broadcast
- Christmas Eve 202521:45BBC Radio 3
Death in Trieste
A 1760s murder still informs ideas about aesthetics, a certain sort of sex, and death.
Watch: My Deaf World
Five compelling experiences of what it is like to be deaf in 21st-century Britain.
The Book that Changed Me
Five figures from the arts and science introduce books that changed their lives and work.
Podcast
![]()
The Essay
Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.
