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Sarah Butler – Rainbows Seen From The Air Are Complete Circles

idaley — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:22:08 +0000

Short Story. When an older man steals a cinnabar button off a vulnerable young singer’s coat, a strange, ephemeral alliance is formed. She follows him down Kentish Town Road to a house filled with colour and the possibility of change.

From Wonderwall. Read by the author.

Michael Nath – Significant to Bradley

idaley — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:06:45 +0000

Short story by Michael Nath. Bradley cloaks his life in mystery and is highly sensitive to his own significance. This delightful character’s eccentric behaviour is met with varying degrees of tolerance and appreciation from his colleagues.

From Wonderwall. Read by the author.

Wayne Price – There is a Saviour

idaley — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:07:07 +0000

Leyden, divorced and in a quarrelsome relationship with his student son, reluctantly embarks on an embarrassing cross-country drive from Edinburgh to Kettick in the rain to move his son’s sixteen year old live-in girlfriend back to her father.

From Bonne Route. Read by the author.

Guy Ware – The Temptation of Pogo

idaley — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:58:47 +0000

A playful satire which follows the fortunes of Pogo, an imaginary friend who is manifested in the brain of his current client as a little fat boy in a sailor suit, an image that troubles him greatly. Pogo spends his downtime hanging out with the Saints and Psychos, and when St Nicholas has a run-in with the The Boss at the busy Christmas period, The Boss offers Pogo temptation.

From Ideas Above Our Station. Read by the author.

Ian Clayton – Taproom

idaley — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:38:16 +0000

Ian Clayton spends the day being regaled by Arthur ‘Sooner’ Millard in a Featherstone taproom.

From Bringing It All Back Home. Read by the author.

Ian Clayton – Young Man Blues

idaley — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:20:01 +0000

The story of the night that Jimi Hendrix played Ilkley starts in John Entwistle’s Cotswolds mansion.

From Bringing It All Back Home. Read by the author.

Michael Nath – La Rochelle

idaley — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:22:54 +0000

Michael Nath reads from his novel La Rochelle. Mark goes out shooting in the Devon countryside with Frank Whitby and the regulars from the Henry IVth, an activity he declares to be ‘eminently better than thinking’. (10:15)

From La Rochelle. Read by the author.

Pippa Griffin – Next Door

idaley — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:26:10 +0000

A couple on holiday lay awake at night and listen to the couple next door having sex, prompting each of them to consider their own relationship.

From Bonne Route. Read by the author.

Christine Cooper – What Am I Doing Here?

idaley — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:08:18 +0000

Cerys is carving out her life in Soweto, working in an orphanage, when an email from her sister back home in Wales brings bad news about her grandmother, forcing her to confront her feelings about home and what she is doing with her life.

From Born in the 1980s. Read by the author.

Sally Jenkinson – Brown Rice

idaley — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:34:04 +0000

A day in the life of a young single father trying to cope with bringing up his daughter.

From Born in the 1980s. Read by the author.