Spoken Stories: The State of Us
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Cafés by Rebecca Miller read by Susan Zelouf
12 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A woman meditates on change and loss and becoming, when as a young artist she stayed in Florence with her boyfriend who was working there as a restore...
Austen by Adrian Duncan read by Barry Ward
22 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Austen, a photographer, enjoys playing golf and is a member of a club in the midlands of Ireland. He also aspires to golf-course design, an aspiration...
Sarah by Elaine Feeney read by Jeanne Nicole Ní Áinle
15 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah was assaulted two years ago. It changed her life. She lies awake beside her sleeping husband and is expecting their first child. Her day in cour...
Money by Niamh Campbell and read by Caitríona Ennis
08 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lena came of age against the rise and fall of the Celtic Tiger. She is reconciling the role of money in our lives having been a student unable to aff...
The Impasse by Irish Indian writer Cauvery Madhavan read by Dawn Bradfield
24 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A near head on collision on a remote mountain road brings two women together who know each other since their school days, but who have been avoiding e...
Father Thy Will Be Done on Earth by Melatu Uche Okorie and voiced by Gabriel Adewusi
17 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A widower is reeling from the death of his wife. In the tradition of his Igbo tribe of Nigeria, and as a musician, he turns to proverbs and songs to m...
Scoilteanna le Colm Ó Snodaigh á aithris ag Marcus Lamb
10 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ag taisteal ó thuaidh ó Dheilginis ar an Dart, músclaítear cuimhní a bhí múchta le fada i bpaisinéir, a thapaíonn agus a shoiléiríonn le ga...
The Bray by Paul McVeigh voiced by Roisin Gallagher
03 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A rare date for Julie and her husband Frankie turns sour when a toddler in the restaurant is let roam free, uncontrolled. Their own children are being...
Sorrow and Honey by Nuala O'Connor and voiced by Clare Dunne
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Verity has bad physical health and her adult daughter, Lillis is trying to reach a state of mental balance. They are navigating their complicated rela...
A Life in Twelve Parts by Carlo Gébler voiced by Ciarán McMenamin
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Early on Malachi learns that there is them and us and ways of behaving when out in the world. At seventeen he gives more cash than he need for a copy ...
'Great Beasts of Myth' by Mia Gallagher
13 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Peter Coonan. Swimming, addiction and longing collide in this Dublin pandemic story. Its flow, stops, starts and changes of direction, are tha...
'Poets of Rapallo' by William Wall
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Mark O'Regan. A retired teacher is navigating recent widowhood. He is in Italy for the first time, a place he has always wanted to go, but nev...
'A God Amongst Men' by Louise O'Neill
11 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Annie Ryan. Erin, a young woman from Minneapolis visits Ireland for the first time, a country mad for sporting heroes. Landing into the countr...
'Information for Birth Mothers' by Louise Kennedy
04 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Cathy Belton. Told in the form of a public information pamphlet it tells a story that begins in 1980s Ireland. It is an elemental, gut-wrenchi...
'Cré' by Colm Ó Ceallachain
18 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Léite le Caitríona Ní Mhurchú. Cé go bhfuil cónaí ar Mhóna in Éirinn, tá sí préamhaithe i gcré a tír dúchais cé gur cré na hÉireann ...
'Flatland with Monuments' by Caoilinn Hughes
11 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Maria Doyle Kennedy. A mother with limited custody of her children and believing they are in danger from falling space debris takes them out o...
'Nessun Dorma' by Evgeny Shtorn
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Dmitry Vinokurov. As his hard-won personal freedom is being coming to be realised a global pandemic is also unfolding and will shut down the n...
'My Love, My Lake, My Forest' by Éilis Ní Dhuibhne
27 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Aidan Kelly. When a writer resident at an artist retreat in a remote part of Finland falls in love he starts thinking about his life and his h...
'Night on Earth' by Colin Walsh
20 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Naoise Dunbar. It is Leaving Cert night in a small Irish town. School is done. Eoin is all buoyed up thinking how the whole world lies ...
'Old Fires' by Billy O'Callaghan
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Pat Shortt. A middle-aged man returns to his hometown he left twenty years ago, desperate to escape its confines and the traumas that it held ...
'Tacugama' by Belinda McKeon
06 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Charlene McKenna. Sisters reared on an Irish farm have different lives now on either side of the Atlantic. When their father has a stroke, the...
'Law of the Instrument' by Lisa McInerney
30 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Stephen O'Leary. A young man has has dug himself so deeply into an incessant conflict with his father, that it stops him from leaving home.See...
'Near Adelaide' by Christine Dwyer Hickey
23 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Emma Dargan-Reid. With her move away from being home schooled in remote Australia to boarding school near Adelaide a young girl is confronted ...
'Bride' by Donal Ryan
16 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Daryl McCormack. Having been cast out from his life a man exiles himself far from where he had lived with his wife and their child and is bewi...
'On Being Sophia' by Mike McCormack
28 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Fiona O'Shaughnessy. 'On Being Sophia' gives voice to Sophia, an actual female android who in 2017 was granted full citizenship by Saudia Arab...
'Present Perfect' by Roisín O'Donnell
21 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Siobhán McSweeney. A young mum and a teacher is living in emergency accommodation in a Dublin hotel. Considering herself a complete failure, ...
The Silver Coast by Colin Barrett
14 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Eileen Walsh. The Silver Coast is a story about what it is people owe each other, and the interplay between the human impulse to escape or tra...
'Snáithíní Solais' by Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde
07 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read by the author. In this Irish language story, its narrator moves back and forth, contemplating life’s changes and consequences, what moulds and ...
'St Alban's Drive' by Danielle Mclaughlin
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Marty Rea. A story of personal grief and loss, of negotiating different familial views, and the levels of independence offered to those who co...
'Easter 2036' by Neil Jordan
21 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Stephen Rea. The unforeseen consequences of the hug, never mind the common kiss, having been long outlawed to outwit a contagious deadly virus...
'An Authentic Conversation' by Yan Ge
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Ashley Xie. Nan and Akmaral, two young Asian students attend a Dublin language school. In the process of grappling with an assignment from the...
'Anti-Treaty' by Wendy Erskine
07 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read by the author. Cut-throat tv talent show UK OK, gets more than it bargained for with E-Zee or Ballyshannon girls, Eimear and Zofia, among its con...
'Shorn' by Sue Rainsford - read by Saoirse Ronan
31 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Saoirse Ronan. 'Shorn' moves hauntingly between a brutal long ago and a present time of purge the past, while not forgetting it.See omnystudio...
'A Pirate, Dreaming' by Kevin Barry
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read by the author. From his high-up perch under his Velux window, a pirate radio DJ watches a routine morning grow and the good people of Limerick ci...
'Assignation' by Mary Costello
17 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Caitríona Ni Mhurchú. 'Assignation' opens hopefully on a bright mid-April New York morning in 1938. The quiet intimately devastating telling...
'Wildlife' by Anne Enright
10 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Wildlife is set in Cape Breton, against the backdrop of post-crash Ireland and a family holiday in Canada. Marieva and Finn have each other under the ...