Will Self reads 'On Exactitude in Science' by Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges’s combination of the anecdotal, philosophical and the literary showed Will Self...
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Nathan Englander reads 'The Story of My Dovecote' by Isaac Babel
Nathan Englander finds Jewish history, corruption and man’s inhumanity to man and pigeons in...
Sebastian Barry reads 'Eveline' by James Joyce
Forty years after he first read it, Sebastian Barry returns to James Joyce’s short story Eveline
Anita Desai reads The Postmaster by Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore returned again and again to the voiceless women of Bengal, as in his short...
Jon McGregor reads 'Notes from the House Spirits' by Lucy Wood
Lucy Wood builds a story from glimpses and suggestions in ‘Notes from the House Spirits’, says...
Yiyun Li reads 'Three People' by William Trevor
Yiyun Li reads William Trevor’s ‘Three People’, a short story which moved her to write a story in...
AS Byatt reads 'At Hiruharama' by Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald looks at the world anew in her short story ‘At Hiruharama’, says AS Byatt
Hanif Kureishi reads 'A Hunger Artist' by Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka’s story of a man who starves himself for entertainment, The Hunger Artist, is...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reads 'No Sweetness Here' by Ama Ata Aidoo
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie admires the ‘old-fashioned social realism’ of Ama Ata Aidoo’s ‘No...
Nadine Gordimer reads 'The Centaur' by José Saramago
José Saramago tackles the conflict between mind and body in ‘The Centaur’, says Nadine Gordimer
Simon Callow reads 'The Christmas Tree' by Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens celebrated Christmas throughout his writing life. His autobiographical story ‘A...
Richard Ford reads 'The Student's Wife' by Raymond Carver
Despite their restraint, Raymond Carver’s ‘early-period’ stories, such as The Student’s Wife, are...
Zadie Smith reads 'Umberto Buti' by Giuseppe Pontiggia
Zadie Smith launches our winter series of short stories with an almost ‘anti-Italian’ story from...
Nine More Curious Incidents First he found literary acclaim with The Curious Incident of the Dog...
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Jack, the Giant Killer, read by Andrew Scott – Travel folktales for kids podcast
Cormoran is a bloodthirsty giant who preys on a Cornish village – until a brave little boy named...
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Pinocchio and the Field of Miracles, read by Andrew Scott – Travel folktales for kids podcast
The little wooden puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy was born in Tuscany. The second of our...
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The wandering knight of Zagreb, read by Andrew Scott – Travel folktales for kids podcast
A knight loses his way in a haunted forest and is close to death – until salvation arrives in the...
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Asian Shorts Audiobook Asian Shorts Asian Shorts came about because of a sequence of events on...
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Episode 12: The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
#Edgar Allen Poe# Needs no real introduction. He was in some senses the man who began the...
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Episode 9: The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce was a prominent American author in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. He is...
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