The Great Stories: Recent Episodes

Trevor Downey

Is there anything better than being told a good story? Well, yes. Being told one of the truly great stories probably beats it. In this podcast, Trev Downey reads the very best in the genre and discusses them with his guests.

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Trev Downey reads and then discusses The Dream Of A Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Trev Downey reads and then discusses The Creature by Edna O'Brien

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Trev Downey reads Sea Oak by George Saunders

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Trev Downey reads and then discusses Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut

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Trev Downey reads and then discusses A Cruelty by Kevin Barry

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Trev Downey reads and then discusses Dagon by H P Lovecraft

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Trev Downey reads and then discusses Baster by Jeffrey Eugenides

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Trev Downey reads and then discusses A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka

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Trev Downey reads and then discusses To Build A Fire by Jack London

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Trev Downey reads and then discusses The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant

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Trev Downey reads and then discusses The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

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Trev Downey reads and then discusses All You Can Do Is Breathe by Kaaron Warren

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Trev Downey reads and then very briefly reacts to The Million Pound Bank-Note by Mark Twain 

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Trev Downey reads and then discusses Button, Button by Richard Matheson

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Trev Downey reads and then briefly discusses My Father's Life by Raymond Carver

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Trev Downey reads and then discusses The Signalman by Charles Dickens

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Trev Downey reads The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K Le Guin and then discusses it with Neil Poole.

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Trev Downey reads Autopsy Room Four by Stephen King

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Trev Downey reads Where Are You Going, Where Have you Been? by Joyce Carol Oates and then discusses it with Neil Poole.

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Trev Downey reads and then discusses The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell

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Trev Downey reads and then discusses Cathedral by Raymond Carver.

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Trev Downey reads and then discusses The Monkey's Paw by W W Jacobs

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Trev Downey reads and then briefly discusses The Man In A Case by Anton Chekhov

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Trev Downey reads Fjord of Killary by Kevin Barry and then discusses it with Neil Poole.

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Trev Downey reads The Dune by Stephen King

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Trev Downey reads Speech Sounds by Octavia Butler and then discusses it with Neil Poole.

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Trev Downey reads The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Trev Downey reads The Dead by James Joyce in this special feature-length, story-only episode.

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Trev Downey reads The Five Forty Eight by John Cheever and then discusses it with Neil Poole.

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Trev Downey reads Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne and then discusses it with Neil Poole.

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Trev Downey reads The Man In The Black Suit by Stephen King and then discusses it with Neil Poole.

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Trev Downey reads and then discusses Work by Denis Johnson with Neil Poole.

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Trev Downey reads Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

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trev Downey reads 2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut

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Trev Downey reads I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison and then discusses it with Neil Poole.

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Trev Downey reads The Tower by Marghanita Laski and then discusses it with Neil Poole.

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BONUS EPISODE: Trev Downey reads The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe.

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Trev Downey reads A & P by John Updike and then discusses it with Neil Poole.

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Trev Downey reads Solid Objects by Virginia Woolf and then discusses it with Neil Poole.

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BONUS EPISODE: Trev Downey reads Anton Chekhov's The Lady With The Dog

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BONUS EPISODE: Trev Downey reads Stephen King's Crouch End

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Trev Downey reads Emergency by Denis Johnson and then discusses it with Neil Poole.

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Trev Downey reads Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver and then discusses it with Neil Poole.

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Trev Downey reads The Enormous Radio by John Cheever and then discusses it with Neil Poole.

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Trev Downey reads and briefly reflects on The Gift of the Magi by O Henry in this bonus Christmas episode of The Great Stories.

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Trev Downey reads The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin and then discusses it with Neil Poole.

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Trev Downey reads and briefly reacts to Bullfighting by Roddy Doyle.

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Trev Downey reads The Diamond Maker by HG Wells and then discusses it with Neil Poole.

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Trev Downey reads Eveline by James Joyce and then discusses the story with Neil Poole.

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Trev Downey reads The Bet by Anton Chekhov and then discusses it with Neil Poole.

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Trev Downey reads The Lottery by Shirley Jackson and then discusses it with Neil Poole.