Guardian Short Storie
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Guardian Short Storie
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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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 o...
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 sho...
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, a...
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 leadin...
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 p...
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
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
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
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...
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
Sebastian Barry reads 'Eveline' by James Joyce
Forty years after he first read it, Sebastian Barry returns to James Joyce’s short story Eveline
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
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
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’
AS Byatt reads 'At Hiruharama' by Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald looks at the world anew in her short story ‘At Hiruharama’, says AS Byatt
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
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’
Nadine Gordimer reads 'The Centaur' by José Saramago
José Saramago tackles the conflict between mind and body in ‘The Centaur’, says Nadine Gordimer
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 Call...
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
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
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’
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 P...
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 po...
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’
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, incl...
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 Pu...
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’
Short stories podcast: Coming soon
Lisa Allardice introduces the Guardian’s forthcoming series of short stories podcasts