In this episode, we have a selection of old favourites—pieces we return to time and again, when the mood takes us. Words that we pull off our shelves—or out of our memories—just because we want to feel something again, to know something again, to return to a moment of excitement or awe or insight that has shifted something inside us.

Books/work featured in the episode

Testimonio by Brian Doyle, from the collection One Long River of Song (read by Aasheesh Pittie)

Standing up by Tomas Transtromer (read by Malini Waghray)

90 Minutes to Entebbe by William Stevenson (read by Divya Bharath)

Black Dogs and Enduring Love by Ian McEwan (read by Usha Raman)

For whom the bell tolls by John Donne (read by Amita Desai)