Episodes
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Ruby Cowling's extraordinary realisms
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Episodes manquant?
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Two stories of resistance and subversion.
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A complex and multi-layered short story, about a place haunted by the past.
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A short story about a whole nation.
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Possibly the best short story ever written...
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Today we discuss the epistolary short story ‘Dear Conchi’, with our first guest, Lucia Berlin expert, Nina Ellis.
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The 2022 Caine Prize winning short story from Idza Luhumyo.
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A consummately skilful and nuanced short story about loss.
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A dramatically intense and innovative short story about the devastating effects of Fascism.
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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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'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.
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'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).
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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).
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‘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).
