The Great Stories

By Trevor Downey

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Episodes: 59

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Is there anything better than being told a good story? Well, yes. Being told one of the truly great stories probably beats it. In this podcast, Trev Downey reads the very best in the genre and discusses them with his guests.

Episode Date
Episode 59: Who's-Dead McCarthy by Kevin Barry
Apr 02, 2024
Episode 58: A Painful Case by James Joyce
Mar 27, 2024
Episode 57: Casting The Runes by M R James
Dec 21, 2023
Episode 56: The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
Nov 19, 2023
Episode 55: The Dream Of A Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Jun 30, 2023
Episode 54: The Creature by Edna O'Brien
Jun 11, 2023
Episode 53: Pretty Mouth And Green My Eyes by J D Salinger
Mar 29, 2023
Episode 52: Shooting An Elephant by George Orwell
Feb 09, 2023
Episode 51: Tower of Babylon by Ted Chiang
Jan 11, 2023
Episode 50: Oh, Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad by MR James
Dec 21, 2022
Episode 49: Sea Oak by George Saunders
Nov 08, 2022
Episode 48: Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut
Oct 11, 2022
Episode 47: A Cruelty by Kevin Barry
Sep 06, 2022
Episode 46: Dagon by H P Lovecraft
Jul 31, 2022
Episode 45: Baster by Jeffrey Eugenides
Jul 23, 2022
Episode 44: A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka
Jun 22, 2022
Episode 43: To Build A Fire by Jack London
Jun 06, 2022
Episode 42: The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
May 02, 2022
Episode 41: The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
May 01, 2022
Episode 40: All You Can Do Is Breathe by Kaaron Warren
Mar 30, 2022
Episode 39: The Million Pound Bank-Note by Mark Twain
Mar 09, 2022
Episode 38: Button, Button by Richard Matheson
Feb 26, 2022
Episode 37: My Father's Life by Raymond Carver
Feb 06, 2022
Episode 36: The Signalman by Charles Dickens
Dec 23, 2021
Episode 35: The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K Le Guin
Dec 15, 2021
Episode 34: Autopsy Room Four by Stephen King
Nov 12, 2021
Episode 33: Where Are You Going, Where Have you Been? by Joyce Carol Oates
Oct 02, 2021
Episode 32: The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
Aug 31, 2021
Episode 31: Cathedral by Raymond Carver
Jul 30, 2021
Episode 30: The Monkey's Paw by W W Jacobs
Jun 20, 2021
Episode 29: The Man In A Case by Anton Chekhov
May 27, 2021
Episode 28: Fjord of Killary by Kevin Barry
Apr 18, 2021
Episode 27: The Dune by Stephen King
Mar 30, 2021
Episode 26: Speech Sounds by Octavia Butler
Feb 18, 2021
Episode 25: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Jan 22, 2021
Episode 24: The Dead by James Joyce
Jan 04, 2021
Episode 23: The Five Forty Eight by John Cheever
Dec 10, 2020
Episode 22: Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nov 24, 2020
The Man In The Black Suit by Stephen King
Nov 11, 2020
Work by Denis Johnson
Aug 19, 2020
Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin
Aug 08, 2020
2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut
Jun 29, 2020
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
Jun 19, 2020
The Tower by Marghanita Laski
May 05, 2020
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
Apr 26, 2020
A & P by John Updike
Apr 08, 2020
Solid Objects by Virginia Woolf
Mar 24, 2020
The Lady With The Dog by Anton Chekhov
Mar 18, 2020
Crouch End by Stephen King
Mar 14, 2020
Emergency by Denis Johnson
Feb 12, 2020
Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver
Jan 28, 2020
The Enormous Radio by John Cheever
Jan 13, 2020
The Gift of the Magi by O Henry
Dec 24, 2019
The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
Dec 20, 2019
Bullfighting by Roddy Doyle
Dec 11, 2019
The Diamond Maker
Nov 25, 2019
Eveline by James Joyce
Nov 11, 2019
The Bet by Anton Chekhov
Oct 28, 2019
The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson
Oct 14, 2019