Episodi

  • Store Credit

    Store Credit
    Oct 20 2026
    Halloran and Pike is a hundred-year-old department store in downtown Dayton, Ohio. Its returns desk has always offered one perk, printed on a laminated card: bring a gift back with its gift receipt and you get store credit, and the person who gave it forgets they ever did. No awkward thank-yous. Dolores Kemper has worked that desk for forty-five years. She has never returned anything, and she always tucks a gift receipt in with the presents she gives. It's December 27th, the busiest returns day of the year. Her new floor manager has a target to hit, the line runs back past the escalators, and at the end of it stands Glen, the man she was married to for twenty-eight years. He has a cardboard box sealed with masking tape, and every gift inside still has one of her receipts taped to it. A work of fiction. Performed by synthetic voices. Supported by SagaSeal.
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    21 min
  • Wide Enough for a Truck

    Wide Enough for a Truck
    Oct 20 2026
    Larkin Court is a short dead-end street of triple-deckers in Dorchester, Boston, and tonight a snow emergency has been declared. On Larkin Court the space-saver rules are as dull as trash day. You dig out your spot and put something in it, and it's held. The catch is that it's held for the person you really mean, not the person you say. Dennis Kearney is seventy-four. He has shovelled a space in front of his house that's far too wide, and he has set his late wife's kitchen chair in it. Then his own Buick bounces off it. Before the night is over he'll have argued with a tow truck, a chair, the whole street and the young nurse next door, who has to get to her six o'clock shift. A work of fiction. Performed by synthetic voices. Supported by Lynqly.
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    19 min
  • Something on the Back

    Something on the Back
    Oct 18 2026
    A wet October Saturday in the tin-roofed pavilion at the end of a seaside pier. Desmond Rook has been spotting fakes for forty years. Pearl Dobbs has brought in her late dad's picture of a fishing boat, hoping to prove her sister wrong about it, and Ollie, the volunteer steward, is calling the tickets for a queue that never gets any shorter. Then Desmond says something he didn't mean to say. A door slams, and there's no door. A gull cries, and then it cries again, exactly the same. A man whose whole trade is telling an original from a copy has to apply his own test to the room he's sitting in, and to the three people in it, himself included. A work of fiction. Performed by synthetic voices. Supported by STELQ.
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    23 min
  • Well, I Won't Keep You

    Well, I Won't Keep You
    Oct 17 2026
    Bev Ashworth, of Larch Close on the edge of Leeds, invites everyone round and means none of it. The postman, the window cleaner, the courier: "You must come round for a cup of tea one evening, love." Then, before they can answer: "Well, I won't keep you." Since Tuesday, the invitations have started to stick. Whoever Bev asks round to their face rings her doorbell at seven o'clock, with no idea why, and can't leave her kitchen until she says the words. Which is very handy when you've spent eleven years at war with next door's leylandii. A dark domestic comedy about a hedge, a doorbell that plays Für Elise, and a kitchen chair nobody is allowed to sit in. A work of fiction. Performed by synthetic voices. Supported by STELQ.
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    20 min