Sebastian Barry on James Joyce's Eveline – books podcast
Forty years after he first discovered it, Sebastian Barry explains why he loves James Joyce’s...
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Sebastian Barry on James Joyce's Eveline – books podcast
Forty years after he first discovered it, Sebastian Barry explains why he loves James Joyce’s...
19:10
Zadie Smith on Giuseppe Pontiggia's Umberto Buti – books podcast
Zadie Smith shares why she loves this almost ‘anti-Italian’ story from Giuseppe Pontiggia, then...
25:50
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Ama Ata Aidoo – books podcast
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie shares why she admires the ‘old-fashioned social realism’ of the...
46:04
Neil Gaiman on Rudyard Kipling's The Gardener – books podcast
Neil Gaiman introduces Rudyard Kipling’s The Gardener, a melancholy tale from 1925, as part of...
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Penelope Lively on MR James' Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad – books podcast
You’ll never sleep in a twin bedroom again after hearing this classic Edwardian ghost story,...
50:58
Jonathan Safran Foer on Aleksandar Hemon's The Bees, Part 1 – short story podcast
Jonathan Safran Foer explains why he loves this tale about the Bosnian author’s father, which is...
46:17
David Mitchell on The Monkey's Paw by WW Jacobs – short story podcast
Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell introduces one of the great, early 20th century horror stories:...
30:54
Stephen Fry on Saki's Sredni Vashtar - short story podcast
A small boy’s rebellion takes a sinister turn in Saki’s classic tale – a story loved by Stephen...
16:04
Neil Gaiman on Rudyard Kipling's The Gardener – short story podcast
In this instalment of our seasonal short story special, we have Neil Gaiman share why he loves...
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Penelope Lively on MR James's Oh Whistle and I'll Come to you, my lad - short story podcast
You’ll never sleep in a twin bedroom again after hearing this classic Edwardian ghost story,...
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James Salter reads Break it Down by Lydia Davis
James Salter, the veteran American novelist and short story writer, reads a story by Lydia Davis,...
28:31
Simon Callow reads 'The Christmas Tree' by Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens celebrated Christmas throughout his writing life. His autobiographical story 'A...
39:58
Ruth Rendell reads 'Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook' by MR James
Ruth Rendell doesn't believe in ghosts, of course, but MR James's stories, like 'Canon Alberic's...
29:08
AS Byatt reads 'At Hiruharama' by Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald looks at the world anew in her short story 'At Hiruharama', says AS ByattLisa...
25:19
Hanif Kureishi reads 'A Hunger Artist' by Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka's story of a man who starves himself for entertainment, The Hunger Artist, is...
26:26
Jon McGregor reads 'Notes from the House Spirits' by Lucy Wood
Lucy Wood builds a story from glimpses and suggestions in 'Notes from the House Spirits', says...
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Sebastian Barry reads 'Eveline' by James Joyce
Forty years after he first read it, Sebastian Barry returns to James Joyce's short story...
19:10
Anita Desai reads The Postmaster by Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore returned again and again to the voiceless women of Bengal, as in his short...
25:18
Will Self reads 'On Exactitude in Science' by Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges's combination of the anecdotal, philosophical and the literary showed Will Self...
06:19
Nathan Englander reads 'The Story of My Dovecote' by Isaac Babel
Nathan Englander finds Jewish history, corruption and man's inhumanity to man and pigeons in...
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