Guardian Short Storie
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
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United Kingdom
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The Guardian
Description:
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
Language:
English
Episodes
Sebastian Barry on James Joyce's Eveline – books podcast
1/1/2019
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
Duration:00:19:10
Zadie Smith on Giuseppe Pontiggia's Umberto Buti – books podcast
12/31/2018
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
Duration:00:25:50
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Ama Ata Aidoo – books podcast
12/26/2018
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
Duration:00:46:04
Neil Gaiman on Rudyard Kipling's The Gardener – books podcast
12/25/2018
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
Duration:00:32:57
Penelope Lively on MR James' Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad – books podcast
12/24/2018
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
Duration:00:50:51
Jonathan Safran Foer on Aleksandar Hemon's The Bees, Part 1 – short story podcast
1/9/2018
Jonathan Safran Foer explains why he loves this tale about the Bosnian author’s father, which is then read by Chris Moran
Duration:00:46:17
David Mitchell on The Monkey's Paw by WW Jacobs – short story podcast
1/5/2018
Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell introduces one of the great, early 20th century horror stories: WW Jacobs’s spine-tingling The Monkey’s Paw
Duration:00:30:53
Stephen Fry on Saki's Sredni Vashtar - short story podcast
1/2/2018
A small boy’s rebellion takes a sinister turn in Saki’s classic tale – a story loved by Stephen Fry, who explains why
Duration:00:16:04
Neil Gaiman on Rudyard Kipling's The Gardener – short story podcast
12/29/2017
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
Duration:00:32:57
Penelope Lively on MR James's Oh Whistle and I'll Come to you, my lad - short story podcast
12/26/2017
You’ll never sleep in a twin bedroom again after hearing this classic Edwardian ghost story, selected by Penelope Lively read by Simon Callow
Duration:00:50:51
James Salter reads Break it Down by Lydia Davis
5/23/2013
James Salter, the veteran American novelist and short story writer, reads a story by Lydia Davis, winner of the 2013 Man Booker International prize
Duration:00:28:31
Will Self reads 'On Exactitude in Science' by Jorge Luis Borges
1/4/2013
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’
Duration:00:06:19
Nathan Englander reads 'The Story of My Dovecote' by Isaac Babel
1/3/2013
Nathan Englander finds Jewish history, corruption and man’s inhumanity to man and pigeons in Isaac Babel’s ‘The Story Of My Dovecote’
Duration:00:32:30
Sebastian Barry reads 'Eveline' by James Joyce
1/2/2013
Forty years after he first read it, Sebastian Barry returns to James Joyce’s short story Eveline
Duration:00:19:10
Anita Desai reads The Postmaster by Rabindranath Tagore
1/1/2013
Rabindranath Tagore returned again and again to the voiceless women of Bengal, as in his short story The Postmaster, says Anita Desai
Duration:00:25:18
Jon McGregor reads 'Notes from the House Spirits' by Lucy Wood
12/31/2012
Lucy Wood builds a story from glimpses and suggestions in ‘Notes from the House Spirits’, says Jon McGregor
Duration:00:32:46
Yiyun Li reads 'Three People' by William Trevor
12/30/2012
Yiyun Li reads William Trevor’s ‘Three People’, a short story which moved her to write a story in reply, ‘Gold Boy, Emerald Girl’
Duration:00:45:30
AS Byatt reads 'At Hiruharama' by Penelope Fitzgerald
12/29/2012
Penelope Fitzgerald looks at the world anew in her short story ‘At Hiruharama’, says AS Byatt
Duration:00:25:19
Hanif Kureishi reads 'A Hunger Artist' by Franz Kafka
12/28/2012
Franz Kafka’s story of a man who starves himself for entertainment, The Hunger Artist, is ‘absurb, moving and timely’, says Hanif Kureishi
Duration:00:26:26
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reads 'No Sweetness Here' by Ama Ata Aidoo
12/27/2012
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie admires the ‘old-fashioned social realism’ of Ama Ata Aidoo’s ‘No Sweetness Here’
Duration:00:46:04