Story Radio

02/01/2025

Latest Writers Salon on the theme is out, aphrodisiacs from Lana Citron 💋, food for healing 🍎from Sue Hubbard, hungry mermaids 🧜‍♀️ by Lindsay Gillespie, food and health by Dr Stuart Gillespie 🥼, food and memories 🧠 by Martin Nathan and me! Content warning in show notes ‼️👇

Our second live recording of six writers reading their work in the intimate surroundings of the Colony Room Green bar. There will be occasional drink mixing and pouring, laughter and doors opening! Listen to Lana Citron talk about food as an aphrodisiac, Sue Hubbard read her novel Three about food a...

01/12/2024

Listen to our interview with Hanna Nordenhök about her dark, Gothic novel Caesaria here

In 19th-century Sweden, Caesaria is kept in a doctor's mansion as a trophy: she is the first baby to be born alive from one of his c-sections. In a Gothic ambience, Caesaria narrates in first person her experiences in the mansion and her encounters with its mysterious inhabitants and visitors. Does....

03/11/2024

Our regular writers’ salon at the Colony Room Green, 4 Heddon Street, Regent Street W1B 4BS continues on Monday 11th November with a theme of Food. It is free to join us in this art-filled, welcoming space to listen to our authors, Lana Citron, Lindsay Gillespie, Dr Stuart Gillespie, Sue Hubbard, Martin Nathan and Tabitha Potts read aloud from their work.

01/11/2024

Our regular writers’ salon at the Colony Room Green, 4 Heddon Street, Regent Street W1B 4BS continues on Monday 11th November with a theme of Food. It is free to join us in this art-filled, welcoming space to listen to our authors Lana Citron, Lindsay Gillespie, Dr Stuart Gillespie, Sue Hubbard, M...

01/11/2024

It's dropped! Listen to Simon Roberts' haunting At the Watts Memorial EC1, based on the real-life stories of heroic people over the last three centuries who gave their lives to save others https://buff.ly/4hxkiwH

'At the Watts Memorial EC1' is a haunting recreation of some of the true stories told on the famous memorial in Postman's Park. The memorial commemorates brave people who lost their lives trying to save others in acts of heroic self-sacrifice in the last three centuries - most recently in 2007. We h...

02/10/2024

Our first has dropped! Listen to hear Lindsay Gillespie, Kristin Burniston, Goran Baba Ali, Simon Roberts, Martin Nathan, Darren Coffield, Miki Lentin and Tabitha Potts read live at the Colony Room Green

Writers Salon: Bohemia Theme – Brought to You from the Colony Room Green, London Welcome to the first-ever Writers Salon, hosted at the Colony Room Green, an artist-run bar in London. The theme was Bohemia, with tales of 1980s art models, 19th-century stage acts, clubbing in Tenerife, and a famous...

06/09/2024

Don't forget our live Story Radio Event at the Colony Room Green 9th September at 8pm! We'll be listening to eight writers read for us - can't wait!

01/09/2024

Our latest episode is a dark and compelling short story, Dolls are for Babies by Lana Citron

A young girl goes for a walk in the country with life-changing consequences. This short story by Lana Citron was originally published in US magazine Thin Air, 2022 under the title "The Understanding". Trigger warning: The following short story contains content and or references of a violent and sexu...

01/08/2024

It’s dropped! Listen to Daisy Goodwin talk about her novel Diva, based on the life of Maria Callas, here

We interview Daisy Goodwin, novelist and screenwriter, about her latest novel, Diva (Head of Zeus March 2024), inspired by the life of the brilliant soprano Maria Callas. The novel opens at a time when Callas is at the height of her extraordinary career but in a stultifying marriage and haunted both...

31/07/2024

We’ve got a treat for you tomorrow - stand by for an interview with Daisy Goodwin talking about her latest novel Diva, inspired by the life of Maria Callas

23/07/2024

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Live Storyradio event alert! Join Simon Roberts Martin Nathan and for an evening of readings at the Colony Room Green loosely based on the theme Bohemia

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