Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast The Short Story Podcast
| Titre | Date | Durée | |
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| Small Pleasures Episode 19: Sarah Hall 'Mrs Fox' and Jackie Kay 'My Daughter the Fox' | 05 May 2025 | 00:17:05 | |
Two fabulous tales. | |||
| Small Pleasures Episode 18: Tom Conaghan's 'Reverse Engineering' Anthology | 28 Sep 2024 | 00:28:12 | |
Tom Conaghan’s inspirational anthology, Reverse Engineering, a great resource for writers and teachers! | |||
| Small Pleasures Episode 17: Ruby Cowling 'Emeralds Live' | 13 Mar 2024 | 00:19:53 | |
Ruby Cowling's extraordinary realisms | |||
| Small Pleasures Episode 16: Michel Faber 'Some Rain Must Fall' and 'The Fahrenheit Twins' | 18 Feb 2024 | 00:45:18 | |
The visionary worlds of Michel Faber. | |||
| Small Pleasures Episode 15: Albertine Sarrazin | 12 Nov 2023 | 00:34:06 | |
Two stories of resistance and subversion. | |||
| Small Pleasures Episode 14: Ailsa Cox’s Cocky Watchman | 01 Oct 2023 | 00:24:33 | |
A complex and multi-layered short story, about a place haunted by the past. | |||
| Small Pleasures Episode 13: Clare Louise Bennett’s Finishing Touch and Control Knobs | 18 Jun 2023 | 00:20:02 | |
A discussion of two great short stories from 'Pond' by Claire-Louise Bennett | |||
| Small Pleasures Episode 12 Maxim Osipov’s ’Big Opportunities’ | 08 May 2023 | 00:18:27 | |
A short story about a whole nation. | |||
| Small Pleasures Episode 11 Louise Erdrich’s ’The Shawl’ | 09 Apr 2023 | 00:20:19 | |
Possibly the best short story ever written... | |||
| Small Pleasures Episode 10 Lucia Berlin’s ’Dear Conchi’ | 05 Mar 2023 | 00:32:47 | |
Today we discuss the epistolary short story ‘Dear Conchi’, with our first guest, Lucia Berlin expert, Nina Ellis. | |||
| Small Pleasures Episode 9 Idza Luhumyo’s Five Years Next Sunday | 22 Jan 2023 | 00:28:24 | |
The 2022 Caine Prize winning short story from Idza Luhumyo. | |||
| Small Pleasures Episode 8 Jon McGregor’s The Singing | 18 Dec 2022 | 00:27:04 | |
A consummately skilful and nuanced short story about loss. | |||
| Small Pleasures Episode 7 Anna Seghers’ The Dead Girls Class Trip | 13 Nov 2022 | 00:31:22 | |
A dramatically intense and innovative short story about the devastating effects of Fascism. | |||
| Small Pleasures Episode 6: Leila Aboulela’s ’Missing Out’ | 22 Oct 2022 | 00:28:21 | |
A sensitive and complex story about the pressures on a young couple who move to a foreign country, with a different culture and religious faith.
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| Small Pleasures Episode 5: Daniel Mason’s ’Death of the Pugilist’ | 11 Sep 2022 | 00:27:55 | |
'Death of the Pugilist, or the Famous Battle of Jacob Burke & Blindman McGraw' is the extraordinary story of a bareknuckle fight in 19th century England. | |||
| Small Pleasures Episode 4: Sheila Armstrong ’Red Market’ | 11 Sep 2022 | 00:22:49 | |
| Small Pleasures Ep 3: Tessa Hadley’s ’Bad dreams’ | 24 Jul 2022 | 00:24:20 | |
'Bad Dreams’ is a supremely skilful and multi-layered short story about how a young girl's nightmare intrudes into reality. Hadley, Tessa, ‘Bad Dreams’ collected in Bad Dreams, (London: Jonathan Cape, 2017). | |||
| Small Pleasures Episode 2: Graham Mort’s ’A Walk in the Snow’ | 24 Jul 2022 | 00:25:09 | |
Powerful and brilliant imagery juxtaposes a couple walking in the snow in northern England with the vigil of a mother at her son’s hospital bed in war-torn Iraq. Mort, Graham, ‘A Walk in the Snow’ collected in Touch (Bridgend: Seren, 2010). | |||
| Small Pleasures Episode 1: Alice Munro’s ’The Children Stay’ | 24 Jul 2022 | 00:28:54 | |
‘The Children Stay’ is a short story about a young wife who takes the role of Eurydice in an amateur theatrical production, with life-changing consequences. Munro, Alice, ‘The Children Stay’ collected in The Love of a Good Woman (London: Chatto & Windus, 1998). | |||