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.
School’s out and summer’s here, which means an invaluable new crop of interns started working at WORDTheatre this past week! We have a busy couple of months ahead as we prepare to debut our newest extravaganza: The Ocean: Our Liquid Universe on August 3rd at The Wilderness Festival in Oxfordshire, England! And if you are stateside, we will be perfoming it in Los Angeles at The Saban Theatre in partnership with the LA Library Foundation so mark your calendar!

This week on the podcast, we’re bringing you “The Phosphorescence” by Nicholas Ruddock. Clive Standen, star of Vikings and Robin Hood, performed it when WORDTheatre was presenting the shortlisted stories for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award.

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And now, here is “The Phosphorescence" by Nicholas Ruddock, performed by Clive Standen.

CLIVE PERFORMS THE STORY.

And once again, the story you just heard is titled “The Phosphorescence,” written by Nicholas Ruddock, and performed by Clive Standen. If you're enjoying what you're hearing on the WORDTheatre Weekly Podcast, we’d love to hear from you. Send us an email at admin@wordtheatre.org and write us a review. Most importantly, tell your friends about this podcast!

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On behalf of Kirsty Peart, my UK producing partner, and myself, Thank you to the Los Angeles County Department of Arts & Culture, Emerson College, Loyola Marymount University, Emory University & Middlebury College for bringing us great summer interns. We have a lot of work for them to do!
We'd also 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, and our Podcast Editor, Alyssa Monteiro.Thank you for listening. This is Cedering Fox, until next week, signing off!