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Listen to this episode using the player below or subscribe on iTunes — search “litro lab”. The Mädels With a Microphone investigate a German pop culture phenomenon, the TV cop show ...
Short Story: “The Recovery Position” by Stuart Snelson
This week on Litro Lab, actor Greg Page reads a story that appeared in our Sex-themed issue in February. “The Recovery Position” by Stuart Snelson is a painfully funny tale ...
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Spreepark: an abandoned amusement park in Berlin
This week, as part of our Mystery issue, guest podcasters Mädels with a Microphone explore the curious world of Spreepark, an abandoned amusement park in Berlin. They uncover the sad story behind the park, its ...
Litro: Arts & Culture, podcast
Sin City: Decadence and Doom in Weimar Berlin
“You couldn’t find anything more nauseating than what goes on in Berlin, quite openly, every day. The people there don’t know how low they have sunk. Evil does not know ...
Litro: Arts & Culture, podcast
Everything Speaks In Its Own Way: An Interview with Performance Poet Kate Tempest
Kate Tempest’s angry, heartfelt, sing-song performance style and allusive, pulsating writing come together to create poetry that’s literary, musical and mesmerising. We talk to her about her love of hip ...
Chinese storyteller Fong Liu tells the story of the Golden Reed Pipe
Chinese storyteller and musician Fong Liu is on the Litro Lab podcast this week, telling the story of “The Golden Reed Pipe”, a traditional folk tale of the Yao culture, ...
Short Story: “A Professor on the Lawn” by Richard Smyth
“You must be so brainy,” the girl said. I remember that. I think – I think – that when she said that she was perched upon my arthritic old knee. ...
Short Story: “The Rental Heart” by Kirsty Logan
An audio podcast of an unsettling fantasy tale of clockwork love by the talented short story writer Kirsty Logan.
A Tribute to Robert McGowan (1947-2012)
This week on Litro Lab we revisit a short story that first appeared on the website in June 2011. Its author, Robert McGowan, sadly passed away last month. Actor Greg ...
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A Literary Mixtape: Featuring Saul Williams, Caits Meissner, Joshua Kleinberg, Matt Mason, Inua Ellams and Bree Rolfe.
In this podcast, you’ll hear Saul Williams read a meta-poem he has written using words from the work of the 100 poems in the anthology, Chorus: A Literary Mixtape, an ...
Adam Marek on His Latest Collection, The Stone Thrower.
The Stone Thrower is a blend of subtle sci-fi and unsettling fantasy which explores the vulnerability of children and our desire to protect them. In this week’s episode, the British ...
The Japanese Ghost Stories of Lafcadio Hearn
This week, Litro Lab takes a look at the Japanese ghost stories of Lafcadio Hearn and investigates the folklore of Yōkai myths, Noh plays, modern urban legands, and horror cinema along the ...
Sarah Waters on the Supernatural and Her Favourite Ghost Story, “The Monkey’s Paw” by W. W. Jacobs.
Sarah Waters, author of Tipping the Velvet and more recently, The Little Stranger, a modern ghost story fuelled by war trauma, grief and class tensions, joins us for this episode ...
Robert Lloyd Parry on M. R. James’ Ghost Stories
In the run-up to our Ghosts issue, which will go online on Halloween, Litro Lab talks to actor Robert Lloyd Parry about bringing the tales of the ghost ...
Flash Fiction Special: Feat. Tania Hershman, Vanessa Gebbie, David Gaffney, Calum Kerr (and Kafka)
In this Litro Lab episode, I talk to flash fiction writers David Gaffney (Sawn-off Tales, Salt, 2006), Tania Hershman (The White Road and Other Stories, Salt, ...
Alison Moore on Her Favourite Short Story, Sherwood Anderson’s “Adventure”
Today we kick off a new series on Litro Lab, where we invite a writer to choose a short story they love and talk to us about why they love ...
Short Story: They Went to the Sea
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Biography: Extract from Casanova
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My Batter is Thick
Luke de Castro reveals the sinister side of baking…
Ginger in the Sauce
A man observes the guests at an afternoon party.