Story Radio

01/07/2024

Close to Revelation and Check Your Tire Pressure, two beautiful autofiction stories, on the podcast now!

This month we have two auto-fiction stories about parents and children. Our first auto-fiction piece, "Close to Revelation" written by Janet Lawrence, is set during the pandemic and tells the story of a woman trying to get pregnant using IVF while chaos erupts all around her. Janet Lawrence is a wri...

01/06/2024

Our latest interview with Katie Willis, author of The Quiet Act of Loving Bones, has dropped!

Story Radio interviews Katie Willis, author of The Quiet Act of Loving Bones, published by Joan Publishing. We discuss bones, inspiration, the colour yellow, Russia and lucid dreaming. "It is rare to come across a book that feels, at the same time, overwhelmingly strange and delightfully familiar. T...

01/05/2024

Listen to 'Anne', a moving and beautiful dramatised audio fiction written, read, and produced by Kristin Burniston, today on Story Radio!

Eleven-and-a-half months ago, Mary didn’t know she had sisters. Now, at her home in Hove on England’s South Coast, they meet to scatter their mother Anne’s ashes. This episode was written, directed, and produced by Kristin Burniston. Kristin is a graduate of the MA Screenwriting program at the...

01/03/2024

Pleasure your ears with Simon Roberts’ latest Outing!

A student goes on a day trip to the seaside with his mum, and ends up learning a great deal more about himself - and her. This story was written and read by Simon Roberts. Simon Roberts is currently based in West London and writes short stories and flash fiction. He was longlisted for the 2022 Fish....

01/02/2024

It’s dropped! Listen to our interview with Jane Labous about her new novel Past Participle published by Afsana Press

Listen to an interview with Jane Labous and hear her reading from her new novel, Past Participle, published by Afsana Press. Dakar, Senegal, 1987: On a rainy night after a wild party, the British ambassador’s wife, Vivienne Hughes, is involve in a car crash. Her vehicle hits the motorbike of a you...

02/01/2024

Don’t call me Sir, that’s not my name. Tabitha Potts here running this page

01/01/2024

It’s dropped! Listen to our interview with the curators of Fantasy: Realms of Imagination at the here

Tabitha Potts and Martin Nathan interview the lead curator and guest curator of the British Library’s blockbuster exhibition, Fantasy: Realms of Imagination, Tanya Kirk and Matthew Sangster. The exhibition runs until 25th February 2024 and tickets can be booked here. The exhibition has been critic...

01/11/2023

Our latest , Dust and Oranges by Nicholas Batura, has dropped! Listen here

This Halloween, rather than encountering ghosts and ghouls, we explore the horrors of war. A little girl sneaks out of her family home to buy a birthday gift for her mother, a decision that changes her life forever. Nicholas Batura lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, with his rad wife and....

18/09/2023

Check us out in the top 50 UK Arts podcasts on Spotify!

15/09/2023

We’ve been reviewed by Podcast Tonight! Have a read here 😊

Join Story Radio Podcast for a monthly dose of bite-sized literary short stories and bookish discussions. Perfect for writers and readers alike!

01/09/2023

We interview best-selling author Sally Page about her new novel, , today on Story Radio

The Story Radio team interview Sally Page, best-selling author of The Keeper of Stories, whose new novel The Book of Beginnings has just been published by HarperCollins. We talk to her about stationery, fountain pens, romance and ghosts. The Book of Beginnings tells the story of Jo, who is hiding fr...

01/08/2023

Our latest episode is out - flash and short fiction inspired by the gravestones in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park

This month we are featuring short stories and flash fiction written at a creative writing workshop in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park. The stories are loosely inspired by the gravestones of people who were buried in the cemetery. They include Charlie Brown, boxer and publican, Alec Hurley, boxer, singer...

31/07/2023

Tabitha Potts Author has a collection of her dark short stories out in print and Kindle Unlimited! You can read it here A Book of Short Stories

A Book of Short Stories eBook : Potts, Tabitha: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

01/07/2023

Our latest episode has dropped! Listen to Pure at Heart, about a magical forest being, written by Patricia Furstenberg

A young girl is fascinated by the story of a magical being hidden in the forest outside her home, and goes out at night to look for her. Written by Patrica Furstenberg and read by Lysandra Furstenberg. With a medical degree behind her, writer and poet Patricia Furstenberg authored 18 books imbued wi...

20/06/2023

Hey, we’re in the Apple Podcast charts for Books, Great Britain! Thanks for listening 🙏

27/05/2023

We’re running a flash fiction workshop in the Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park - with the chance to record your flash if you’d like to! Sign up here

Waking the Dead Flash Fiction Workshop – Meet at The Soanes Centre, Sat 3 Jun 2023 - Waking the Dead Flash Fiction Workshop Come to the Cemetery Park and have a go at writing flash fiction as you explore your local burial ground for part of National Cemeteries Week! This three-hour workshop will ....

01/05/2023

Have a listen to Dogs by S P Murphy, as a woman at home with her baby in lockdown faces unwelcome visitors

A woman at home with her baby during lockdown hears the unsettling sound of dogs fighting in the street. It isn't long before she is in danger herself - and she has to decide how to fight back. Dogs by S P Murphy was first published in Litro Magazine. S. P. Murphy is an American writer and arts cons...

14/04/2023

Check out the latest episode of Story Radio Podcast! Listen to the full podcast here https://play.headliner.app/episode/14244233?utm_source=facebook (video made with https://www.headliner.app)

01/04/2023

It’s dropped! Listen to Ava Glass author of exciting debut spy thriller on Story Radio

Martin Natha interviews spy insider turned author Ava Glass about her debut novel, The Chase, published by Penguin. Listen to this podcast to find out more about how Glass found her inspiration, and hear her talking about how she structured her novel which has been highly praised by various critics....

03/03/2023

Competition to win some copies of for your book club

01/03/2023

We spoke to the fascinating Helen Fields Author about her new crime novel - and she read an excerpt too

In this episode Martin Nathan and Tabitha Potts speak to best-selling crime novelist Helen Fields, criminal law barrister turned writer, about her new book The Institution. The Institution is a nail-biting psychological thriller about a criminal profiler, Dr Connie Woolwine, who goes undercover in a...

01/02/2023

A terrible thing has happened by Elinora Westfall is live on our podcast today

It is March 1941 during the Second World War, and a young evacuee, Tabitha, is fascinated by the stories about a famous author who lives nearby. Content warning: contains references to su***de. The story is written and read by Elinora Westfall. Influenced by David Bowie, Virginia Woolf and Sally Wai...

01/01/2023

Have a listen to this sparkling by Elinora Westfall about a young woman who loses her heart to a mysterious magician

This short story is about a young woman whose heart is stolen by a mysterious magician. The story is written and read by Elinora Westfall. Influenced by David Bowie, Virginia Woolf and Sally Wainwright, Elinora Westfall is an Australian/British le***an actress and writer of stage, screen, fiction, p...

31/12/2022

New by the brilliant Elinora Westfall coming tomorrow - we’re excited to introduce her work to you

06/12/2022

Thanks for listening this year! You rock

The standout moments of the year. Shout out to all the fans on Spotify.

01/12/2022

Here it is! The writerly wisdom of Greg Mosse and Kate Mosse talking about their craft, plus Greg Mosse reading from his novel, The Coming Darkness

Tabitha Potts and Martin Nathan interview best-selling novelist and short story writer Kate Mosse and playwright and debut novelist Greg Mosse, whose novel The Coming Darkness (Moonflower Books) is publishing on the 10th November. Early praise for Greg Mosse's dystopian thriller have included Lee Ch...

14/11/2022

We’ve got a fantastic interview with Greg Mosse and Kate Mosse coming up soon - can’t wait to share it with you!

30/10/2022

We’ve got a change from our usual spooky fare at this time of year - an interview with best-selling author the Yorkshire Shepherdess. Tune in on November 1st to listen, and hear her read from her new book https://www.facebook.com/yorkshireshepherdess

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01/10/2022

Our latest has dropped! Listen to Eventide by Kae Hart here

A young woman spends time with her younger sister Anya in a deserted playground, while wrestling with her inner demons. The story was written by Kae Hart. Kae is a university student who learned to speak by telling stories to everyone who would listen. The cashier at the local grocery store was her....

07/09/2022

Tabitha Potts has an eBook out - and it will be free to download on Friday 9th September

A Book of Short Stories eBook : Potts, Tabitha: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store