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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

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 ... Read more

1 Jan 2019

19mins

Ranked #2

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Zadie Smith on Giuseppe Pontiggia's Umberto Buti – books podcast

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... Read more

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Ama Ata Aidoo – books podcast

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... Read more

26 Dec 2018

46mins

Ranked #4

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Neil Gaiman on Rudyard Kipling's The Gardener – books podcast

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 sh... Read more

25 Dec 2018

33mins

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Penelope Lively on MR James' Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad – books podcast

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... Read more

24 Dec 2018

50mins

Ranked #6

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Jonathan Safran Foer on Aleksandar Hemon's The Bees, Part 1 – short story podcast

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 Mora... Read more

Ranked #7

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David Mitchell on The Monkey's Paw by WW Jacobs – short story podcast

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-ting... Read more

5 Jan 2018

30mins

Ranked #8

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Stephen Fry on Saki's Sredni Vashtar - short story podcast

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

2 Jan 2018

16mins

Ranked #9

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Neil Gaiman on Rudyard Kipling's The Gardener – short story podcast

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 stor... Read more

29 Dec 2017

32mins

Ranked #10

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Penelope Lively on MR James's Oh Whistle and I'll Come to you, my lad - short story podcast

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 more

26 Dec 2017

50mins

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