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Liars' League (London)
by Liars' League
From Cloak & Dagger to Business & Pleasure, themed short stories are recorded live at our monthly events at the Phoenix pub in London. Since 2007 Liars' League's professional actors have read brand new fiction aloud for your listening enjoyment: check out our archive and our sister event LLNYC if you like what you hear ...
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Women & Girls Murder & Mischief Short Stories (August 2026)
For the 10th anniversary of our Women & Girls theme (celebrating stories written & read by women) we commemorate 50 years since the death of Agatha Christie, the Grande Dame of Crime with a Murder & Mischief theme. Spanning the globe from New Delhi to the Everglades, via the Italian Alps & the...
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Above & Below Summer Short Stories (June 2026)
A white-knuckle fictional rollercoaster ride through deadly dives & perilous plane-trips, featuring aerial royalty, mafia-style building managers & the head of Oliver Cromwell in a biscuit tin. STORY LINE-UP for ABOVE & BELOW “Group Trip” by Stacey Kennedy, read by Gloria Sanders "The One-Man...
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Illusion & Confusion Short Stories (April 2026)
In April our professional actors read a a trick-hand of devilishly deceiving stories on our twistiest theme yet, ILLUSION & CONFUSION, featuring deluded cultists, Kafka-esque bureaucracies, hi-tech skinsuits, self-authoring metafictions, hallucinating parrots, ghost heists & more … ILLUSION &...
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Ex & Next Valentine Short Stories (February 2026)
Love is in the air, because in February our actors read stories of seduction shopping-lists, awkward Antarctic yearning, divorce dates, hooking up with Celtic gods, accidental-on-purpose murder, & devotion that transcends time … Lust & loss, old & new love, true love & blue love: we’re here for…
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Blessed & Cursed Christmas Short Stories (December 2025)
At our BLESSED & CURSED Christmas story special, Liars’ League proudly presented a five-course banquet of Scrooge-like subeditors, possessed baubles, love-torn teens, opium-addicts & a celebrity guest appearance by Prince Harry himself … & his second wife’s Essex crime family. BLESSED & CURSED...
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Haunted & Hunted Halloween Short Stories (October 2025)
The darkness is falling, the wind is rising, the moon glares in the cloud-smirched skies like a single dead eye - & our Halloween special of frightening fiction featured possessed doorbells, Russian skinwalkers, headless corpses, Polar terror, fearsome Irish mammies & the hi-tech house from…
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Women & Girls Jane Austen Short Stories (August 2025)
In Austen's 250th anniversary year, we celebrate her legacy with SIX themed tribute stories! Welcome the GenZ Bennet sisters, Lucia Thurston (the Girl They Couldn't Marry), a Georgian companion in love with her lady, a life recalled through Austen, Pride & Prejudice (& perimenopause) & the Great...
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Down & Out Short Stories (June 2025)
*LIVE EVENT RECORDING* Nobody loves you when you're DOWN & OUT - except Liars' League and our talented troupe of actors, who get their kicks from reading the hell out of brand new fiction ... On Tuesday 10th June The Phoenix's bustling basement bar, heard tales of subway blackouts, boxing...
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Risk & Reward Short Stories (April 2025)
This April we took a chance, placed our bets, & reaped the reward of five new risk-taking tales from our winning authors, featuring fugitive lovers, train heists, theft on the Riviera (1920s-style), London burnout & competitive Lego - PLUS an exclusive flash fiction from host Liam Hogan to...
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Desire & Despair Valentine Short Stories
For Valentine's, our adorable actors read six brand-new original short stories of love, lust & losing it - featuring medical dating, sexual surveillance, spies in (forbidden) love, banging in bookshops, tomcatting around & 24 ways to leave your lover. Heart's desire or hearts on fire, fall in…
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Wreaths & Wraiths Christmas Short Stories (December 2024)
🎄 Our final show of the year, WREATHS & WRAITHS 👻 is a seasonal selection box of six, by turns spine-chilling and heart-warming, featuring remorseful ghosts, Victorian railways, haunted wreaths, nine Welsh Uncles, backwoods honeymoon horror & a grown-up (& very pissed-off) Tiny Tim ... STORY...
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Bell, Book & Candle Halloween Short Stories (October 2024)
This spooky season we've selected tales of poison-books & creepy crosswords, bodies in the attic, onanistic alchemists, ghost cats (& dogs, & birds), & wives who just won't stay dead. STORY LINE-UP for BELL, BOOK & CANDLE "Bag of Bones" by Angelita Lapuz Bradney - read by Margaret Ashley "Family...
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Women & Girls #8 Short Stories (September 2024)
The 8th edition of our annual talent-spotting tour-de-force of female-led fiction features stunning stories by five women writers, exploring everything from aliens to arson, recorded live at the Phoenix, Cavendish Square, London. RUNNING ORDER 1) "KARMA" by Katie Lewis, read by Alexandra Kenna -...
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Sports & Leisure Short Stories (June 2024)
Recorded live before a literature-loving London audience, professional actors read five brand new short stories of SPORTS & LEISURE. We've got state carnivals & frozen fairs; rifle ranges & pub quiz teams; stoned time-travellers, elephants, bears, & a lifelong friendship measured in marathon…
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Dreams & Reality Short Stories (April 2024)
Six fantastic, phantasmagoric short stories read live by our talented company of actors, featuring lottery-predicting angels, terraforming experiments, surreal documentary disasters, Victorian widowers, sinister peripheral visions & the place where all half-baked ideas & unfulfilled dreams go to...
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Mix & Match Valentine Stories
From office romances to vengeful fairies and laundromats to lunatic asylums, via kleptomania and commuting bears, we've a tasty selection of seductive stories for you to enjoy from our Valentine's Eve special! Listen on your own or share with a loved one (or two, or three ... MIX & MATCH RUNNING...
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Hearth & Home Christmas Special
The Liars' League Christmas Special, HEARTH & HOME, is a stocking stuffed full of brand-new festive fiction for you to enjoy over the winter holidays. Our six specially-written short stories will whisk you to snowy postwar Berlin, a brooding Victorian mansion, and the worst pub in Ireland, and...
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Doom & Gloom Halloween Stories (October 2023)
In honour of the darkening season, LL presents professional actors reading tales of Caribbean monsters, ghostly queens, psychotic cats, murderous whales, headless women & a deadly game of hide-and-seek, from our shadow-haunted Halloween special! STORIES for DOOM & GLOOM (in running order) "Be...
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Women & Girls #7 (August 2023)
Our seventh annual celebration of female-authored fiction, with actresses reading brand new short stories by women writers of wolves, motherhood, seaside surrealism and more ...
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Heroes & Villains (June 2023)
Five fantastic actors read five new short stories of shadow-haunting monsters, heroic henchmen, epic wrestling battles, Guyanese bandits and how to save the world (maybe) ... ORDER OF STORIES FOR HEROES & VILLAINS Four Barrels of Ale by David Klotzkin, read by Tony Bell Henchmen Wanted by Rhys...
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Royalty & Revolution (April 2023)
2023 sees the first UK Coronation in 70 years ... so our April event was themed on Royalty & Revolution - political, sexual, scientific & more. Our fantastic actors read brand new stories of murder PR, royal/rustic romance, grieving Queens, how to poison a tyrant & the political protest to end…
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Agony & Ecstasy Valentine's Stories (February 2023)
Six short stories, sexy & sad, frank & funny, riding the highs & lows of love, lust & everything in between. Meet agony aunts, lost loves, AI relationship mediators, singletons going spare, pill-popping avant-garde artists, mothers in despair & horny Victorian teens. RUNNING ORDER for AGONY &...
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Hopes & Fears Christmas Special (December 2022)
Hopes! Fears! Drunks! Turkeys! Skulls! Cats! Divorce! ... and all the other things that make Christmas so special! For December's edition we've stuffed your stocking with Hollywood noir, skull-stealing students, escapologist turkeys, cats up chimneys, and quietly tragic YouTube instructional...
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Skull & Crossbones Halloween Stories (October 2022)
Avast! We've a scurvy sackful of swashbuckling stories for you this month, to chill your blood and shiver your timbers in time for Hallowe'en. There's sea-swept ghosts, grave-robbing, meat-smuggling, heart-eating, demonic middle-management, skulls, bones, vampires, zombies and of course PIRATES!...
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Women & Girls #6 (August 2022)
Our sixth annual ladies' night, where all stories are written and read by women, was a WOW! We had flying mums, snake-haired Gorgons, content-mill drones, horror from the loch, and an (after)life lived through fridge magnets, all performed live on Tuesday 9th August at The Phoenix, near Oxford...
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There & Back Tales of Travel (June 2022)
In flaming June, we present tales of travel & abroad: a bulging suitcase of stories to take you from the frozen lakes of Hell to the sweltering cities of North Africa, via Northern Ireland, fantasy-world theme parks, a trip up the Amazon and a slip back in time. Destinations include: The…
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Colour & Vision (April 2022)
For the League's 15th birthday, we selected five stories by emerging and established writers of colour, to bring you a broad and brilliant spectrum of fiction from contemporary comedy to folk-horror, via family drama, dark fantasy and "a mosh pit run by the NHS" :) Our Colour & Vision event at…
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Romance & Revenge Valentine's Stories (February 2022)
Whether you're lovestruck, fed up, coupled-up or strictly solo, we have some fitting fiction for you! Six seductive stories of carnal consumption, gift donkeys, morality apps, tender tales of human love in an alien world, foul-mouthed ghosts, vengeful exes and magical lady-gardens. ROMANCE &...
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Friends & Family Christmas Stories (December 2021)
The line up for our festive FRIENDS & FAMILY show features everything you need for the perfect Christmas: 1) Terrible Yuletide telly (Christmas Special by Rhys Timson, read by Patsy Prince) 2) Lying awake worrying about stuff (Uhtceara by E. J. Fry, read by Peter Kenny) 3) Murder (Practically...
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Liars' League - Magic & Mayhem Halloween Show (October 2021)
(Un)settle down for a chilling evening featuring ghosts, gods, maybe-murderesses, vanishing tricks, medieval maulings, undead D&D players & a special appearance by Buffy - plus our horrific literary quiz! MAGIC & MAYHEM STORY RUNNING ORDER The Fear by Emma Grae, read by Lois Tucker The Trial of...
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Women & Girls #5 (August 2021)
Our 5th annual celebration of stories about and by Women & Girls was performed to a packed crowd on Tuesday 10th August at The Phoenix, featuring Mormons, murder, mediums, malicious moths, medieval maladies & more ... RUNNING ORDER for WOMEN & GIRLS Goddess Interrupted by Lyndsey Croal, read by...
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Order & Chaos (June 2021)
In the beginning, the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the spirit of live fiction moved over the face of the waters, and a new order was come! It was rich with naked hikers and chaos Empresses and cats in space, mighty with evil angels and model…
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Fools & Sages (May 2021)
Six profound & absurd stories from our first live event of 2021, featuring ripped, naked priests, mysterious messages, spirit animals, deceitful advisers, eunuchs, keyworkers, dragons, knights & rabbis. WINNING STORIES for FOOLS & SAGES - RUNNING ORDER He is Coming by Callum Jacobs, read by…
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Together & Apart Valentine's Stories (February 2021)
This month we bring you a selection of five seductive stories featuring Victorian agony column-addicts, hormonal teen parties, poorly-programmed love robots, hybrid roses and a classic romance with a sting in the tale. TOGETHER & APART LINE UP Agony by Jenni Rickard read by Harrie Dobby Hometown...
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Heart & Soul Christmas Show (December 2020)
Five brand-new stories, set in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the far future, to warm your cockles and ginger your bread: they feature lockdown hook-ups, accidental babies, drones, droids, zombies (obviously) and some truly appalling things coming down chimneys. HEART & SOUL RUNNING ORDER...
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Hide & Seek LIVE Halloween Event (October 2020)
A delicious bowl of creepy candy including girls' school ghosts, sloppy serial killers, post-apocalyptic survivalists, a haunted phone call and an eccentric aristo's personal monster museum. Plus our terrifying book quiz! HIDE & SEEK RUNNING ORDER 1. LANDLINE by Renee Agatep, read by Keleigh Wolf...
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Women & Girls Lockdown Literature Online Event (August 2020)
From Glaswegian cam-girls and 70s single mums to restless teens, via a nightmare flatshare and terrified expectant parents, we've got a female-focused live-lit lineup you won't want to miss ... WOMEN & GIRLS RUNNING ORDER BigThick and Sally's Gnashers by Emma Grae, read by Lois Tucker Come Away…
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Mystery & Suspense Lockdown Literature Online Event (June 2020)
An isolated house. A stolen identity. A mind-altering cloud. A powerful witch. A secret murder. A lost treasure. And a naked dwarf. Somewhere between light and shadow, between science and superstition, is the dimension of imagination. Dare you enter ... the Mystery & Suspense Zone? MYSTERY &...
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Young & Old Lockdown Literature Online Event (April 2020)
This unprecedented month, we have genius gamers, sassy mamas, Iraq War soldiers, elderly lovers, what-now? weddings, folk singers and cows giving birth: truly something for everyone, all recorded from home by our superb company of actors. Stay safe, stay home, and stock up on stories! Exiled by...
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Scoundrels & Scandals Valentine's Event
Our first event of 2020 was saucy and sexy for Valentine's - featuring Brazilian amateur porn-stars, amorous avatars, Victorian vices, ambisexual rockstars and unconsummated couplings. SCOUNDRELS & SCANDALS WINNING STORIES - LINE UP IN LISTENING ORDER The Kiss by Brindley Hallam Dennis - read by...
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Sugar & Spice Christmas Show (December 2019)
What are our Christmas stories made of? Sugar & Spice and all things nice, that's what! Also prosecco, snow ghosts, feral toddlers, charity singles and just a pinch of rat poison. Delicious! (Bonus features: the LL Bumper Festive Book Quiz and announcement of MVPs for 2019) SUGAR & SPICE RUNNING...
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Toil & Trouble Hallowe'en Special (October 2019)
We grave-robbed six terrifying tales for our TOIL & TROUBLE pre-Hallowe'en special on Tuesday 8th October at The Phoenix, and here they are! These brand-new short stories, read by our professional actors, feature spiritual cannibalism, lovelorn witches, talking corpses, blazing spectres…
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Women & Girls (August 2019)
Six female authors, from the US, Ireland, Australia and UK, write about witty bankers, hyper-connected dystopias, vulpine lovers, lonely Durham teens, Snow White gone wrong, and dating dilemmas of the giant spider. LINE-UP & RUNNING ORDER FOR WOMEN & GIRLS Ray by Sadie Nott NEW AUTHOR - read by...
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Infinity & Beyond (June 2019)
Our science fiction-flavoured special celebrates 50 years since the Apollo moon landings, and features cloning, deep space, cryogenics, time travel tourism, wannabe astronauts and Murder in the Dark. INFINITY & BEYOND PLAYLIST Proxima Centauri by Oliver Parkes, read by Greg Page London 2025 by…
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Before & After (April 2019)
Six superb stories of change to enthrall and entertain you from our BEFORE & AFTER show on Tuesday 9th April. There are escapes and tipping points, cats and cows, sex and death, poetry and fistfights, yoga and porn, bees in the Berlin Wall and a fishtank full of ghosts. STORY LINE-UP for BEFORE &...
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Love & Lust Valentine's Event (February 2019)
Pagan bonfires, lustful teens, scarlet knickers, ill-advised one-night stands, fish suppers, sex at the Imperial War Museum and (naturally) post-apocalyptic time-travel all played a part in our Valentine's special, recorded on Tuesday 12th February 2019 at The Phoenix, Cavendish Square, London....
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BONUS CHRISTMAS STORY! "And Following This, the Queen's Speech" by Elizabeth Hopkinson, read by Gloria Sanders
"Good afternoon and welcome to the 2,018th annual Christmas Do-Gooder Stakes..." As St Nicholas and Good King Wenceslas battle it out through the snow (only momentarily distracted by the Little Match Girl) will their great sporting rivalry be settled at last - or will a forgotten long shot come…
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Naughty & Nice Christmas Show (December 2018)
We made our list, we checked it twice ... and here are the winning stories which were read at our tinsel-tastic Christmas show NAUGHTY & NICE in December 2018. We had seasonal shoplifting, sexy sourdough, kidnapped presents, one VERY naughty little girl and what happens when Santa meets the…
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Trick & Treat Halloween Special (October 2018)
Encounter monsters in the cupboard, death up a ginnel, the dread Castle Woebetide, four feral sisters, Wanda the Witch Wench, and even Death himself, all lurking in the shadow-haunted Pit of Terror (A.K.A the Phoenix's basement bar) ... STORY PROGRAMME for TRICK & TREAT Trixie's Treat by Diane...
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Women & Girls (August 2018)
From truant wives to sarky schoolgirls, pyromaniac editors to teenage hookers via tantruming mums, our annual all-women event showcases the best of female-focused fiction. WOMEN & GIRLS STORIES - RUNNING ORDER How to be Unemployed by Alice Franklin *NEW AUTHOR* - read by Lois Tucker Tree House…
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From Cloak & Dagger to Business & Pleasure, themed short stories are recorded live at our monthly events at the Phoenix pub in London. Since 2007 Liars' League's professional actors have read brand new fiction aloud for your listening enjoyment: check out our archive and our sister event LLNYC if you like what you hear ...
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