Hello and welcome to WORDTheatre Weekly: The Short Story Podcast where great authors and actors meet! I’m your host, Cedering Fox, WORDTheatre's Founder & Artistic Director.

I am recording today from London, where we are performing "Words & Wickets: A Literary & Musical Celebration of Cricket" on Monday, May 19th at The Crazy Coqs in Piccadilly, with proceeds benefiting WORDTheatre Campus, our work in schools! For more information, and to grab tickets, visit WORDTheatreUK.org or WORDTheatre.org!

This week on the podcast, we’re bringing you a story from another event we had at the Crazy Coqs, honoring the work of author Hanif Kureishi, whose wonderful stories you've heard on this podcast several times before. Today's story is titled “Four Blue Chairs,” performed by Gethin Anthony, and Genevieve Chenneour.

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And now, here is "Four Blue Chairs" by Hanif Kureishi.

GETHIN + GENEVIEVE PERFORM THE STORY.

We hope you’ve enjoyed “Four Blue Chairs,” by Hanif Kureishi, performed by Gethin Anthony and Genevieve Chenneour. If you're enjoying what you're hearing on the WORDTheater Weekly Podcast, please support our work. You can keep this free podcast going by becoming an annual Member. You will have access to videos of our performances and be the first to know about upcoming events. Visit WORDTheatre.org for more information or if you are in the UK, visit WORDTheatreUK.org. And if you'd like to pick up books by the authors that you hear on this podcast, please visit Bookshop in the UK or the US and look for the WORDTheatre affiliate page.

On behalf of Kirsty Peart, my UK producing partner, and myself, we'd like to thank the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, Randy & Jane Sinisi and their Phiphen Studios | Post NJ, our Executive Coordinator, Scout Riley, Our Literary Coordinator, Jason Goodman, as well as Emerson College, Loyola Marymount University, and UCLA because they send us fantastic interns.

Thank you for listening. This is Cedering Fox, until next week, signing off!