Guardian Short Storie

by The Guardian

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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Recent Episodes
  • Sebastian Barry on James Joyce's Eveline – books podcast
    Jan 1, 2019 – 00:19:10
  • Zadie Smith on Giuseppe Pontiggia's Umberto Buti – books podcast
    Dec 31, 2018 – 00:25:50
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Ama Ata Aidoo – books podcast
    Dec 26, 2018 – 00:46:04
  • Neil Gaiman on Rudyard Kipling's The Gardener – books podcast
    Dec 25, 2018 – 00:33:02
  • Penelope Lively on MR James' Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad – books podcast
    Dec 24, 2018 – 00:50:58
  • Jonathan Safran Foer on Aleksandar Hemon's The Bees, Part 1 – short story podcast
    Jan 9, 2018 – 00:46:17
  • David Mitchell on The Monkey's Paw by WW Jacobs – short story podcast
    Jan 5, 2018 – 00:30:54
  • Stephen Fry on Saki's Sredni Vashtar - short story podcast
    Jan 2, 2018 – 00:16:04
  • Neil Gaiman on Rudyard Kipling's The Gardener – short story podcast
    Dec 29, 2017 – 00:32:57
  • Penelope Lively on MR James's Oh Whistle and I'll Come to you, my lad - short story podcast
    Dec 26, 2017 – 00:50:51
  • James Salter reads Break it Down by Lydia Davis
    May 23, 2013 – 00:28:31
  • Will Self reads 'On Exactitude in Science' by Jorge Luis Borges
    Jan 4, 2013 – 00:06:19
  • Nathan Englander reads 'The Story of My Dovecote' by Isaac Babel
    Jan 3, 2013 – 00:32:30
  • Sebastian Barry reads 'Eveline' by James Joyce
    Jan 2, 2013 – 00:16:01
  • Anita Desai reads The Postmaster by Rabindranath Tagore
    Jan 1, 2013 – 00:25:18
  • Jon McGregor reads 'Notes from the House Spirits' by Lucy Wood
    Dec 31, 2012 – 00:32:46
  • Yiyun Li reads 'Three People' by William Trevor
    Dec 30, 2012 – 00:45:29
  • AS Byatt reads 'At Hiruharama' by Penelope Fitzgerald
    Dec 29, 2012 – 00:25:19
  • Hanif Kureishi reads 'A Hunger Artist' by Franz Kafka
    Dec 28, 2012 – 00:26:26
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reads 'No Sweetness Here' by Ama Ata Aidoo
    Dec 27, 2012 – 00:46:03
  • Nadine Gordimer reads 'The Centaur' by José Saramago
    Dec 26, 2012 – 00:40:43
  • Simon Callow reads 'The Christmas Tree' by Charles Dickens
    Dec 25, 2012 – 00:39:39
  • Ruth Rendell reads 'Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook' by MR James
    Dec 24, 2012 – 00:28:49
  • Richard Ford reads 'The Student's Wife' by Raymond Carver
    Dec 23, 2012 – 00:17:21
  • Zadie Smith reads 'Umberto Buti' by Giuseppe Pontiggia
    Dec 21, 2012 – 00:25:50
  • Helen Simpson reads 'The Kitchen Child' by Angela Carter
    Dec 22, 2010 – 00:24:18
  • Short story podcast: Ali Smith reads A Conversation With My Father by Grace Paley
    Dec 21, 2010 – 00:11:07
  • Short story podcast: Tessa Hadley reads 'The Jungle' by Elizabeth Bowen
    Dec 19, 2010 – 00:41:21
  • Margaret Drabble reads 'The Doll's House' by Katherine Mansfield
    Dec 15, 2010 – 00:23:50
  • Colm Tóibín reads Music at Annahullian by Eugene McCabe
    Dec 14, 2010 – 00:32:52
  • Short story podcast: Philip Pullman reads 'The Beauties' by Anton Chekhov
    Dec 8, 2010 – 00:22:42
  • Short stories podcast: Coming soon
    Nov 26, 2010 – 00:00:51
Recent Reviews
  • jetvermont
    A Godsend
    I found this podcast just before leaving on a long trip and it was my companion on the journey for hours. It is wonderful. My favorites (so far) are the stories read by R Rendell and A S Byatt. Their post-story commentary was also fascinating. I had trouble with Colm Toibin's accent but what can be done about that. Thank you for this fabulous thing. And I love the opening music, by the way.
  • Mr.Gal
    Please nix the intro music!!
    Nice podcast but the production values leave something to be desired. In particular, the cloying, overbearing music that introduces each story nearly ruins it for me. It would be so much better without it: we're here for the stories. It reminds me of how The Moth podcast had that shrill, awful violin intro for a time. They wised up and got rid of it :)
  • RebeccaM2017
    The kitchen child
    Wonderful!
  • Bonnie Anderson
    The Doll's House
    Heartbreaking. The pain of class divisions as experienced through the lives of children. Masterfully read and written.
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