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Guardian Short Storie
by The Guardian
Presented by the Guardian's Claire Armitstead and Lisa Allardice, each programme features an interview with a leading author and a reading of the author's favourite short story by another writer
Episodes
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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 short story Eveline, then reads it for you, as part of our seasonal series of short stories selected by leading novelists
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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 reads the story, as part of our seasonal series of short stories selected by leading novelists
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Ama Ata Aidoo – books podcast
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie shares why she admires the ‘old-fashioned social realism’ of the Ghanaian writer’s No Sweetness Here, then reads the story, as part of our seasonal series of short stories selected by leading novelists
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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 our seasonal series of short stories selected by leading novelists. Afterwards, the story is read by actor Marion Bailey
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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, selected by Penelope Lively and read by Simon Callow as part of our seasonal series of short stories selected by leading novelists
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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 then read by Chris Moran
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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: WW Jacobs’s spine-tingling The Monkey’s Paw
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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 Fry, who explains why
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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 Kipling’s melancholy story, which is then read by actor Marion Bailey
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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, selected by Penelope Lively read by Simon Callow
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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, winner of the 2013 Man Booker International prize
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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 how to achieve the ‘truly veridical’. He gets his coordinates from ‘On Exactitude in Science’
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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 Isaac Babel’s ‘The Story Of My Dovecote’
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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 Eveline
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Anita Desai reads The Postmaster by Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore returned again and again to the voiceless women of Bengal, as in his short story The Postmaster, says Anita Desai
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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 Jon McGregor
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Yiyun Li reads 'Three People' by William Trevor
Yiyun Li reads William Trevor’s ‘Three People’, a short story which moved her to write a story in reply, ‘Gold Boy, Emerald Girl’
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AS Byatt reads 'At Hiruharama' by Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald looks at the world anew in her short story ‘At Hiruharama’, says AS Byatt
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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 ‘absurb, moving and timely’, says Hanif Kureishi
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reads 'No Sweetness Here' by Ama Ata Aidoo
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie admires the ‘old-fashioned social realism’ of Ama Ata Aidoo’s ‘No Sweetness Here’
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Nadine Gordimer reads 'The Centaur' by José Saramago
José Saramago tackles the conflict between mind and body in ‘The Centaur’, says Nadine Gordimer
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Simon Callow reads 'The Christmas Tree' by Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens celebrated Christmas throughout his writing life. His autobiographical story ‘A Christmas Tree’ is ‘almost Proustian’, says Simon Callow
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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 Scrapbook’, frighten her nonetheless
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Richard Ford reads 'The Student's Wife' by Raymond Carver
Despite their restraint, Raymond Carver’s ‘early-period’ stories, such as The Student’s Wife, are full to the brim, says Richard Ford
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Zadie Smith reads 'Umberto Buti' by Giuseppe Pontiggia
Zadie Smith launches our winter series of short stories with an almost ‘anti-Italian’ story from Giuseppe Pontiggia, ‘Umberto Buti’
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Helen Simpson reads 'The Kitchen Child' by Angela Carter
In the last of our 12 tales for Christmas, Helen Simpson reads Angela Carter’s ‘triumphant comedy’, ‘The Kitchen Child’ For more podcasts, including Philip Pullman reading Chekhov and Helen Dunmore reading Frank O’Connor, visit the Guardian short stories podcast page. To nominate your own…
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Short story podcast: Ali Smith reads A Conversation With My Father by Grace Paley
Ali Smith reads a ‘breathtaking, breathgiving’ look at an argument between an elderly father and his writer daughterIn the original version of this podcast, Ali Smith’s reading was cut short. The version below has been corrected with the full-length reading
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Short story podcast: Tessa Hadley reads 'The Jungle' by Elizabeth Bowen
Tessa Hadley reads a story from one of her ‘writing family’, Elizabeth Bowen’s ‘The Jungle’
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Margaret Drabble reads 'The Doll's House' by Katherine Mansfield
Margaret Drabble reads Katherine Mansfield’s ‘memorable, painful’ The Doll’s House – the first adult short story she ever read For more podcasts, including Philip Pullman reading Chekhov and William Boyd reading JG Ballard, visit the Guardian short stories podcast page. To nominate your own...
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Colm Tóibín reads Music at Annahullian by Eugene McCabe
Colm Tóibín delights in the hidden landscapes and hidden lives revealed in Eugene McCabe’s Music at Annahullian For more podcasts, including Philip Pullman reading Chekhov and William Boyd reading JG Ballard, visit the Guardian short stories podcast page. To nominate your own favourite short…
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Short story podcast: Philip Pullman reads 'The Beauties' by Anton Chekhov
Philip Pullman opens our podcast series of authors reading their favourite short stories with Chekhov’s ‘masterpiece of minimalism’, ‘The Beauties’
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Short stories podcast: Coming soon
Lisa Allardice introduces the Guardian’s forthcoming series of short stories podcasts
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Presented by the Guardian's Claire Armitstead and Lisa Allardice, each programme features an interview with a leading author and a reading of the author's favourite short story by another writer
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