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Greetings and welcome to WORDTheatre Weekly: The Short Story Podcast where great authors and actors meet! This is Cedering Fox, I’m WORDTheatre’s Founder & Artistic Director, and I’m back again as your host after enjoying a break while our summer interns took the reins.

Our upcoming London event, Seasons of Yearning: Best British Short Stories 2011-2025 debuts in just under a month at The Cray Coqs, one of our favorite little venues. To drum up enthusiasm, we are sharing performances from past Best British Short Stories events on WORDTheatre Weekly.

This week, we’re bringing you “She Said He Said” by Hanif Kureishi, performed by Rhashan Stone, Indira Varma, Derek Riddell, and Nina Sosanya.

We are fortunate to have Author Hanif Kureishi say a few words about his piece before you hear it performed.

Please note that WORDTheatre holds the copyright to these recordings and no portion of anything you hear on WORDTheatre Weekly, our short story podcast may be reproduced without permission.

Here now is Hanif Kureishi.

HANIF INTRO

ACTORS PERFORM.

You have just been listening to “She Said He Said” by Hanif Kureishi, performed by Rhashan Stone, Indira Varma, Derek Riddell & Nina Sosanya.

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