Pin Drop Podcast: Dame Penelope Wilton at the RA with Simon Oldfield, Elizabeth Day & Tim Marlow

Dame Penelope Wilton, star of Downton Abbey, reads Morelia Spilota by Cherise Saywell, winner of the RA & Pin Drop Short Story Award. Introduced by Tim Marlow, Chief Curator of the RA, and Pin Drop founders, Simon Oldfield and Elizabeth Day. The reading is followed by an insightful interview and Q&A with Cherise Saywell. ‘It was a privilege to judge this year’s RA & Pindrop Short Story Award and select the winning story from such a strong short list. Cherise Saywell is a worthy winner for her superb story, ‘Morelia Spilota’, which is written with great confidence and verve. It is a brilliant short story.’ ‘Cherise’s story is a superb example of the short form: elegant, lyrical and with a quiet, restrained power. It is written with such surety of tone and pace that reading it, you feel at once you are in the hands of a master storyteller.’ – Elizabeth Day ‘The quality of writing and the ambition of the writers seems to get stronger each year. It was a pleasure and a privilege to judge the prize and to encounter this year’s short-list’ – Tim Marlow