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The Short Story Podcast episodes
- Small Pleasures Episode 10 Lucia Berlin’s ’Dear Conchi’
Today we discuss the epistolary short story ‘Dear Conchi’, with our first guest, Lucia Berlin expert, Nina Ellis.
33 min - Small Pleasures Episode 9 Idza Luhumyo’s Five Years Next Sunday
The 2022 Caine Prize winning short story from Idza Luhumyo.
29 min - Small Pleasures Episode 8 Jon McGregor’s The Singing
A consummately skilful and nuanced short story about loss.
28 min - Small Pleasures Episode 7 Anna Seghers’ The Dead Girls Class Trip
A dramatically intense and innovative short story about the devastating effects of Fascism.
32 min - Small Pleasures Episode 6: Leila Aboulela’s ’Missing Out’
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.
29 min - Small Pleasures Episode 5: Daniel Mason’s ’Death of the Pugilist’
'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.
28 min - 23 min
- Small Pleasures Ep 3: Tessa Hadley’s ’Bad dreams’
'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).
25 min - Small Pleasures Episode 2: Graham Mort’s ’A Walk in the Snow’
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).
26 min - Small Pleasures Episode 1: Alice Munro’s ’The Children Stay’
‘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).29 min
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The podcast that discusses great short stories and greatness in the short story form.