The Short Story Podcast

The Short Story Podcast

The podcast that discusses great short stories and greatness in the short story form.

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October 4, 2025 23 mins

The marvellous itineraries of Nicholas Royle.

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Two fabulous tales.

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Tom Conaghan’s inspirational anthology, Reverse Engineering, a great resource for writers and teachers!

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Ruby Cowling's extraordinary realisms

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The visionary worlds of Michel Faber.

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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 discussion of two great short stories from 'Pond' by Claire-Louise Bennett

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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).

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