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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 wr...
Forty years after he first discovered it, Sebastian Barry explains why he loves James Joyce’s short story Eveline, then reads it for you, as...
Zadie Smith shares why she loves this almost ‘anti-Italian’ story from Giuseppe Pontiggia, then reads the story, as part of our seasonal ser...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie shares why she admires the ‘old-fashioned social realism’ of the Ghanaian writer’s No Sweetness Here, then reads th...
Neil Gaiman introduces Rudyard Kipling’s The Gardener, a melancholy tale from 1925, as part of our seasonal series of short stories selected...
You’ll never sleep in a twin bedroom again after hearing this classic Edwardian ghost story, selected by Penelope Lively and read by Simon C...
Jonathan Safran Foer explains why he loves this tale about the Bosnian author’s father, which is then read by Chris Moran
Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell introduces one of the great, early 20th century horror stories: WW Jacobs’s spine-tingling The Monkey’s Pa...
A small boy’s rebellion takes a sinister turn in Saki’s classic tale – a story loved by Stephen Fry, who explains why
In this instalment of our seasonal short story special, we have Neil Gaiman share why he loves Kipling’s melancholy story, which is then rea...
You’ll never sleep in a twin bedroom again after hearing this classic Edwardian ghost story, selected by Penelope Lively read by Simon Callo...
James Salter, the veteran American novelist and short story writer, reads a story by Lydia Davis, winner of the 2013 Man Booker Internationa...
Jorge Luis Borges’s combination of the anecdotal, philosophical and the literary showed Will Self how to achieve the ‘truly veridical’. He g...
Nathan Englander finds Jewish history, corruption and man’s inhumanity to man and pigeons in Isaac Babel’s ‘The Story Of My Dovecote’
Forty years after he first read it, Sebastian Barry returns to James Joyce’s short story Eveline
Rabindranath Tagore returned again and again to the voiceless women of Bengal, as in his short story The Postmaster, says Anita Desai
Lucy Wood builds a story from glimpses and suggestions in ‘Notes from the House Spirits’, says Jon McGregor
Yiyun Li reads William Trevor’s ‘Three People’, a short story which moved her to write a story in reply, ‘Gold Boy, Emerald Girl’
Penelope Fitzgerald looks at the world anew in her short story ‘At Hiruharama’, says AS Byatt
Franz Kafka’s story of a man who starves himself for entertainment, The Hunger Artist, is ‘absurb, moving and timely’, says Hanif Kureishi
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie admires the ‘old-fashioned social realism’ of Ama Ata Aidoo’s ‘No Sweetness Here’
José Saramago tackles the conflict between mind and body in ‘The Centaur’, says Nadine Gordimer
Charles Dickens celebrated Christmas throughout his writing life. His autobiographical story ‘A Christmas Tree’ is ‘almost Proustian’, says...
Ruth Rendell doesn’t believe in ghosts, of course, but MR James’s stories, like ‘Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook’, frighten her nonetheless
Despite their restraint, Raymond Carver’s ‘early-period’ stories, such as The Student’s Wife, are full to the brim, says Richard Ford
Zadie Smith launches our winter series of short stories with an almost ‘anti-Italian’ story from Giuseppe Pontiggia, ‘Umberto Buti’
In the last of our 12 tales for Christmas, Helen Simpson reads Angela Carter’s ‘triumphant comedy’, ‘The Kitchen Child’ For more podcasts, i...
Ali Smith reads a ‘breathtaking, breathgiving’ look at an argument between an elderly father and his writer daughterIn the original version...
Tessa Hadley reads a story from one of her ‘writing family’, Elizabeth Bowen’s ‘The Jungle’
Margaret Drabble reads Katherine Mansfield’s ‘memorable, painful’ The Doll’s House – the first adult short story she ever read For more podc...
Colm Tóibín delights in the hidden landscapes and hidden lives revealed in Eugene McCabe’s Music at Annahullian For more podcasts, including...
Philip Pullman opens our podcast series of authors reading their favourite short stories with Chekhov’s ‘masterpiece of minimalism’, ‘The Be...
Lisa Allardice introduces the Guardian’s forthcoming series of short stories podcasts