Tag: LitroLab

LitroLab is our podcast, featuring story readings, documentary and interviews on all things literary and cultural. If you’d like to produce an episode for us, or send us a story recording, contact us at [email protected].

Podcast: <em>Tatort</em>, a German Pop-Culture Phenomenon

Litro: Arts & Culture

Podcast: Tatort, a German Pop-Culture Phenomenon

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 ...

by Jennifer Collins & Tam Eastley • 14th June 201318th June 2013

Fiction, podcast

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 ...

by Litro • 5th April 20137th June 2013

Litro: Arts & Culture, podcast

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 ...

by Litro • 29th March 20137th June 2013

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 ...

by Emily Cleaver • 15th February 201318th June 2013

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 ...

by Emily Cleaver • 1st February 20137th June 2013

Fiction, podcast

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, ...

by Emily Cleaver • 18th January 20137th June 2013

Fiction, podcast

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. ...

by Emily Cleaver • 4th January 20137th June 2013

Fiction, podcast

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.

by Emily Cleaver • 21st December 201218th June 2013

Fiction, podcast

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 ...

by Emily Cleaver • 7th December 20127th June 2013

Litro: Arts & Culture, podcast

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 ...

by Emily Cleaver • 29th November 20127th June 2013

Adam Marek on His Latest Collection, <em>The Stone Thrower</em>.

Fiction, podcast

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 ...

by Emily Cleaver • 23rd November 20127th June 2013

Fiction, podcast

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 ...

by Emily Cleaver • 16th November 20127th June 2013

Fiction, podcast

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 ...

by Emily Cleaver • 6th November 20127th June 2013

Interviews, podcast

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 ...

by Emily Cleaver • 29th October 20127th June 2013

Fiction, podcast

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, ...

by Emily Cleaver • 20th September 20127th June 2013