The Whole Story And Other Stories
The first of a week of readings from the new collection by Ali Smith, author of last years Booker-nominated novel, Hotel World.
| Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Repeated | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | The Universal Story | 20030505 | 20040405 | Roxana Pope reads this multi-layered tale about - among many other things - a woman in a second hand bookshop, a female housefly, and the successive owners of a 1974 Penguin edition of The Great Gatsby Produced by David Jackson Young |
| 02 | Gothic | 20030506 | A disenchanted bookshop assistant describes some of her less savoury customers. Read by Gerda Stevenson | |
| 03 | May. Part 1 | 20030507 | 20040406 | ' I tell you. I fell in love with a tree. I couldn't not. It was in blossom.' Read by Emma Currie |
| 04 | May, Part 2 | 20030508 | 20040407 | 'You sit beside me on the couch and you tell me you are planning to move the tree into our house.' Kirk Bage reads the concluding part of a tale of unusual romantic obsession. |
| 05 LAST | The Shortlist Season | 20030509 | 20040408 | Visiting a gallery, a man realises that art is bad for his health. Read by Simon Tait |
Updated: 4/13/2012