Litro Lab Audio

This week on Litro Lab podcast, we have an evocative and sensorial poem about a painting. Vanessa Bell might be always known as Virginia Woolf’s sister, but in this piece she gets a voice of her own to muse on metaphor, loss, and the rendering of life on a canvas.

This week on Litro Lab podcast, we have a disturbing piece of flash fiction with dystopian hints. A terrible storm unleashes and it doesn’t seem to weaken with the pass of days and weeks. It becomes a disaster of biblical proportions that reminds of our current pandemic. There are many ways people can react to tragedy and uncertainty. But is it possible that some of them might even welcome it?

This week on Litro Lab podcast, we bring you a carefully crafted lyrical piece. It paints a vivid memory of friendship and those carefree days where we could go anywhere and meet with those we love. As the winter continues here in the UK and lockdown hasn’t eased yet, this podcast encompasses a sense of longing we can all relate to. A desire for gentler times to come, long days filled with light and friends.

This week on Litro Lab podcast, we bring an experimental piece that mixes poetry and music. In the era of streaming platforms, many of us rarely watch TV advertising. Yet, ads themselves keep popping up where we least expect them: on our social media feeds, emails, our phones… This musical poem explores the ways advertising has evolved, testing some unexpected boundaries along the way.

This week on Litro Lab podcast, we bring you a lyrical piece about a husband who is struggling to understand his wife. With a touch of humour, this story challenges us to reflect on how people we think we know can change. After all, gender and identity are fluid, and will inevitably spill over the edges of what some consider socially acceptable.

This week on Litro Lab podcast, we have an experimental piece with original music. On a time when many of us are stranded in one place – do you ever dream of taking a solo road trip? Get out of your house to join Sam while he drives through the desert at night. This will be a journey full of bizarre occurrences in which reality becomes gradually weird, visceral, and even sensual.

This week on Litro Lab, a beautifully rendered story on the power and challenges of devotion. Devotion is a story that encourages us to meditate on how we can be there for others without abandoning ourselves.

This week on Litro Lab, we bring you a spooky story about the complex relationship we all have with the objects we own. We like to accumulate them in our houses. We can spend large sums of money on them. Some make our lives easier. Others are just pretty. We enjoy having them around because they define us. That said, have you ever wondered about the inner life of the things you own? What if they had a special kind of soul? Would they like you back? Or would they have more sinister feelings?

Come with us to listen to stories about the yōkai, spirits from the Japanese folklore who like to mingle with humans. Sometimes, they just want to play. But, other times, they have wicked intentions... The yōkai have existed for centuries in the Japanese imagination. However, it is thanks to European writer Lafcadio Hearn that their stories were first translated in English and, thus, shared with the rest of the world. Listen to this podcast – if you dare – to become acquainted with these Japanese ghosts and discover some of the secrets from Lafcadio Hearn's life, which was as haunted as the stories he translated...