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At our BLESSED & CURSED Christmas story special, Liars’ League proudly presented a five-course banquet of Scrooge-like subeditors, possessed baubles, love-torn teens, opium-addicts & a celebrity guest appearance by Prince Harry himself … & his second wife’s Essex crime family. BLESSED & CURSED Christmas Stories Running Order: 🔔 Clareine Cronin narrates Rhys Timson’s “The Ghost of Christmas Future Perfect”, in which a professional pedant gets shown the yellow card 🔔 Silas Hawkins portrays a magically cursed cuckold in Amy Ferguson’s “A Creature Stirs” 🔔 Aïsha Kent is a weary singleton who invites the upstairs teenager to Christmas dinner in Hannah Downes’s “Precious Cargo” INTERVAL & INFAMOUS FESTIVE BOOK QUIZ 🔔 David Mildon plays an opium-smoking Victorian sea-dog who stumbles across a cursed jewel in Alex Edwards’s “The Vauxhall Vagabond” 🔔 & Alex Woodhall is Prince Harry suffering through a truly excruciating Christmas Eve in Quintin Forrest’s “Christmas with the In-Laws”

The darkness is falling, the wind is rising, the moon glares in the cloud-smirched skies like a single dead eye - & our Halloween special of frightening fiction featured possessed doorbells, Russian skinwalkers, headless corpses, Polar terror, fearsome Irish mammies & the hi-tech house from actual Hell ... Listen if you dare! 🎃HAUNTED & HUNTED STORIES - RUNNING ORDER 🎃 “The Key” by Lily Mac NEW AUTHOR, read by Carrie Cohen “There is motion at your front door …” “The Bear-Skin” by David Klotzkin, read by Lin Sagovsky A boorish Russian count takes a bride and hunts a bear. Can either escape him? “So I take the bus up to Drogheda” by David McGrath, read by the author Living death in rural Louth from Ireland’s Poet Laureate of f*cked-upness *INTERVAL & TERRIFYING BOOK QUIZ* “Integrated” by Kate Griffiths-Lambeth NEW AUTHOR read by Gloria Sanders When tech wizards die, do their smart houses survive … somehow? “Magnitude” by Katty Pearce, read by Tim Larkfield An Arctic rescue expedition goes supernaturally awry. Like The Terror, but worse.

In Austen's 250th anniversary year, we celebrate her legacy with SIX themed tribute stories! Welcome the GenZ Bennet sisters, Lucia Thurston (the Girl They Couldn't Marry), a Georgian companion in love with her lady, a life recalled through Austen, Pride & Prejudice (& perimenopause) & the Great Darcy Drought of 2030. WOMEN & GIRLS X JANE AUSTEN RUNNING ORDER "Which Pride & Prejudice Character Are You?" by Sarah Courtauld, read by Katy Darby "To Keep You As My Own" by Hannah Allies Minford, read by Lucy Mabbit "Shots & Shamelessness" by Donna Tracy, read by Aisha Kent INTERVAL & INFAMOUS AUSTEN-THEMED BOOK QUIZ "Dictionary of Days" by Rosaleen Lynch, read by Margaret Ashley "Suitors & Suitability" by Amy Eddings, read by Claire Lacey "Abductions & Adaptations" by Lauren Van Schaik, read by Claire-Louise Amias Director & Host: Katy Darby

*LIVE EVENT RECORDING* Nobody loves you when you're DOWN & OUT - except Liars' League and our talented troupe of actors, who get their kicks from reading the hell out of brand new fiction ... On Tuesday 10th June The Phoenix's bustling basement bar, heard tales of subway blackouts, boxing knockouts, teacher burnouts, Victorian gamblers on the skids & downright doppelgangers. RUNNING ORDER OF STORIES for DOWN & OUT "Power Restored" by John Istel, read by Dan Starkey "The Other Holly Williams" by Hannah Noyce, read by Kim Scopes "The Replacement" by Neil James NEW AUTHOR, read by Oliver Yellop INTERVAL & INFAMOUS BOOK QUIZ "The Golden Hell" by Maria Kyle, read by Rose Biggin "War with Troy: Year 9, Period 4, Friday" by Brian Kelly, read by Matthew McAloone Host: Tim Aldrich Director/Audio Recording: Katy Darby

This April we took a chance, placed our bets, & reaped the reward of five new risk-taking tales from our winning authors, featuring fugitive lovers, train heists, theft on the Riviera (1920s-style), London burnout & competitive Lego - PLUS an exclusive flash fiction from host Liam Hogan to celebrate the publication of his new short story collection, A SHORT HISTORY OF THE FUTURE.  RUNNING ORDER for RISK & REWARD "Certitude" by Scott Tierney - read by Silas Hawkins  "Pilgrim's Trail" by Cecilia Maddison new author - read by Rose Biggin "Everybody Wants London" by Alix Owen - read by Ray Newe INTERVAL & BOOK QUIZ "Brick by Brick" by MJ Lee - read by Nathan Unthank "A Game of Musical Souls" by Liam Hogan - read by Tony Bell (Longlist for Writers' & Artists' Competition 2025) "Pearl Onions" by Alex Edwards new author - read by Dan Starkey

For Valentine's, our adorable actors read six brand-new original short stories of love, lust & losing it - featuring medical dating, sexual surveillance, spies in (forbidden) love, banging in bookshops, tomcatting around & 24 ways to leave your lover. Heart's desire or hearts on fire, fall in love with our fiction ... DESIRE & DESPAIR STORIES: RUNNING ORDER "Gorgeous" by Al Crow, read by Patsy Prince "A Covert Affair" by Bronia Flett, read by David Vickery "24 Ways to Leave your Lover" by Andreas Paraskevaides, read by Carrie Cohen *INTERVAL & BOOK QUIZ* "We Have Nothing to Hide" by Jennifer Gaboury, read by Clareine Cronin "He Brings me Birds" by Cheryl Powell, read by Grace Cookey-Gam "By Appointment" by Lauren Van Schaik, read by Lizzie Muncey Directed, hosted & recorded by Katy Darby

🎄 Our final show of the year, WREATHS & WRAITHS 👻 is a seasonal selection box of six, by turns spine-chilling and heart-warming, featuring remorseful ghosts, Victorian railways, haunted wreaths, nine Welsh Uncles, backwoods honeymoon horror & a grown-up (& very pissed-off) Tiny Tim ... STORY RUNNING ORDER for WREATHS & WRAITHS "Snowy" by Jonathan Weil, read by David Mildon "The Summoning Bell" by Rebecca Miles, read by Lin Sagovsky "Some Apology" by Lianne Warr, read by Paul Clarke INTERVAL & FESTIVE BOOK QUIZ "The Wreath Thief" by Amy Eddings, read by Tony Bell "Uncle Lewis" by David Mathews, read by Gloria Sanders "Humbug" by Ian Aikman, read by Magnus Rook The stories for WREATHS & WRAITHS were recorded live on Tuesday 10th December at De Hems Dutch Bar & Cafe, Soho, London.

This spooky season we've selected tales of poison-books & creepy crosswords, bodies in the attic, onanistic alchemists, ghost cats (& dogs, & birds), & wives who just won't stay dead. STORY LINE-UP for BELL, BOOK & CANDLE "Bag of Bones" by Angelita Lapuz Bradney - read by Margaret Ashley "Family Recipes" by Lisa Farrell - read by Gloria Sanders "Little Man" by Rhys Timson - read by Tony Bell INTERVAL & INFAMOUS BOOK QUIZ "Two Down" by Hannah Noyce - read by Kim Scopes "This Big Future" by Elizabeth Stott - read by Clive Greenwood "Nipped" by Joshua James Jordan - read by David Mildon

The 8th edition of our annual talent-spotting tour-de-force of female-led fiction features stunning stories by five women writers, exploring everything from aliens to arson, recorded live at the Phoenix, Cavendish Square, London. RUNNING ORDER 1) "KARMA" by Katie Lewis, read by Alexandra Kenna - Black Mirror meets the dark web in this tense tale of the deadly consequences of voyeurism 2) "A DOLL'S HEAD IN HACKNEY" by Kathryn Sharpe, read by Miranda Harrison - Divorce, adoption & a doll's head to bind them ... 3) "ALL THE TIMES I THOUGHT I WAS PREGNANT" by JM Cyrus, read by Aren Devlin - Surreal humour when an overthinking teen finds love in the most unusual place INTERVAL & INFAMOUS BOOK QUIZ 4) "TALONS & TEETH" by Lizzie Muncey, read by the author - The collapse & rebirth of a suburban family, as told by their nosy neighbour 5) "TINY FURIES" by E. Ce Miller, read by Martine Richards - Absolute scenes in first-grade after Bree brings in a bento box for lunch ... Director/Editor/Recording - Katy Darby

Recorded live before a literature-loving London audience, professional actors read five brand new short stories of SPORTS & LEISURE. We've got state carnivals & frozen fairs; rifle ranges & pub quiz teams; stoned time-travellers, elephants, bears, & a lifelong friendship measured in marathon miles. So put in your earbuds and join us for a workout in words ... SPORTS & LEISURE STORIES - RUNNING ORDER "Frost Fair" by JJ Surtees, read by Claire Lacey "Back of the Pack" by Paul Lamb, read by Tony Bell "Romancing the Cherry" by Laura Morgan, read by Patsy Prince INTERVAL & BOOK QUIZ "Shooting Gallery" by Abigail Lee, read by Gloria Sanders "Incident 420" by Charlotte Davis, read by Sarah Barlex & Jay Hunt Hosted by Liam Hogan, directed & recorded by Katy Darby at The Phoenix, Cavendish Square, London on Tuesday 11th June 2024.

Six fantastic, phantasmagoric short stories read live by our talented company of actors, featuring lottery-predicting angels, terraforming experiments, surreal documentary disasters, Victorian widowers, sinister peripheral visions & the place where all half-baked ideas & unfulfilled dreams go to die ... RUNNING ORDER "Corner of her Eye" by Caroline von Schmalensee, read by Gloria Sanders "We’re all here to save the world" by Sarah Richardson, read by Magnus Rook "The Lord is Mike Shepherd" by Jonathan Sellars, read by Tony Bell INTERVAL "Colours with No Name" by Elizabeth Hopkinson, read by Tim Larkfield "Every Damned Thing" by David Turnbull, read by Ray Newe "I fell in love with my documentary crew" by David McGrath, read by the author

From office romances to vengeful fairies and laundromats to lunatic asylums, via kleptomania and commuting bears, we've a tasty selection of seductive stories for you to enjoy from our Valentine's Eve special! Listen on your own or share with a loved one (or two, or three ... MIX & MATCH RUNNING ORDER Introduction - Host Liam Hogan "Thrill" by Georgina Sims, read by Gloria Sanders "An Evening at the Faeling Cafe" by Charlotte Davis, read by Sophie Morris-Sheppard "The Sea Captain and the Mad Doctor" by Lianne Warr, read by Tony Bell "What Was and What Is" by Kathryn Sharpe, read by Katy Darby "Somebody" by Lanay Griessner, read by Lucy Mabbitt "Silver Lining" by Ricardo Visinho, read by Paul Clarke Director & Editor - Katy Darby

The Liars' League Christmas Special, HEARTH & HOME, is a stocking stuffed full of brand-new festive fiction for you to enjoy over the winter holidays. Our six specially-written short stories will whisk you to snowy postwar Berlin, a brooding Victorian mansion, and the worst pub in Ireland, and introduce you to Welsh witches, secret base-jumpers and an alcoholic reindeer. You can even play along with our fiendish seasonally-themed quiz at the interval ... RUNNING ORDER "Tripping the Light Fantastic" by Matt Barnard, read by Stephen Butterton "The Visit" by Marta Patiño. read by Carrie Cohen (Most Valuable Player [Actor] 2023) "Red Nose" by Rhys Timson (Most Valuable Player [Author] 2023), read by Zach Harrison INTERVAL & BOOK QUIZ "Looking for Matti" by Grace Andreacchi, read by Sarah Barlex "Aelwyd" by Lianne Warr, read by David Mildon "Donkey Tom" by David McGrath, read by Jamie Laird MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

In honour of the darkening season, LL presents professional actors reading tales of Caribbean monsters, ghostly queens, psychotic cats, murderous whales, headless women & a deadly game of hide-and-seek, from our shadow-haunted Halloween special! STORIES for DOOM & GLOOM (in running order) "Be Lucky, Girls" by Hannah Downes, read by Lucy Mabbitt "Come Find Me" by Pat Black, read by Lisa Rose "The Whale, in Six Parts" by Maria Kyle, read by Thomas Delacourt * INTERVAL & BOOK QUIZ * "Skinning the Cat" by Lanay Griessner, read by Silas Hawkins "By the Flower, not the Axe" by Leila Murton Poole, read by Clareine Cronin "When Duppy does come, who are you?" by Clarissa Angus, read by Sophie Cartman

Our seventh annual celebration of female-authored fiction, with actresses reading brand new short stories by women writers of wolves, motherhood, seaside surrealism and more ...