32 Episodes

  1. Sebastian Barry on James Joyce's Eveline – books podcast

    Published: 1/1/2019
  2. Zadie Smith on Giuseppe Pontiggia's Umberto Buti – books podcast

    Published: 12/31/2018
  3. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Ama Ata Aidoo – books podcast

    Published: 12/26/2018
  4. Neil Gaiman on Rudyard Kipling's The Gardener – books podcast

    Published: 12/25/2018
  5. Penelope Lively on MR James' Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad – books podcast

    Published: 12/24/2018
  6. Jonathan Safran Foer on Aleksandar Hemon's The Bees, Part 1 – short story podcast

    Published: 1/9/2018
  7. David Mitchell on The Monkey's Paw by WW Jacobs – short story podcast

    Published: 1/5/2018
  8. Stephen Fry on Saki's Sredni Vashtar - short story podcast

    Published: 1/2/2018
  9. Neil Gaiman on Rudyard Kipling's The Gardener – short story podcast

    Published: 12/29/2017
  10. Penelope Lively on MR James's Oh Whistle and I'll Come to you, my lad - short story podcast

    Published: 12/26/2017
  11. James Salter reads Break it Down by Lydia Davis

    Published: 5/23/2013
  12. Will Self reads 'On Exactitude in Science' by Jorge Luis Borges

    Published: 1/4/2013
  13. Nathan Englander reads 'The Story of My Dovecote' by Isaac Babel

    Published: 1/3/2013
  14. Sebastian Barry reads 'Eveline' by James Joyce

    Published: 1/2/2013
  15. Anita Desai reads The Postmaster by Rabindranath Tagore

    Published: 1/1/2013
  16. Jon McGregor reads 'Notes from the House Spirits' by Lucy Wood

    Published: 12/31/2012
  17. Yiyun Li reads 'Three People' by William Trevor

    Published: 12/30/2012
  18. AS Byatt reads 'At Hiruharama' by Penelope Fitzgerald

    Published: 12/29/2012
  19. Hanif Kureishi reads 'A Hunger Artist' by Franz Kafka

    Published: 12/28/2012
  20. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reads 'No Sweetness Here' by Ama Ata Aidoo

    Published: 12/27/2012

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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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