Selected Shorts

KPBX 91.1, Sunday, 4pm-5pm
re-airing KSFC 91.9, Sunday, 9pm-10pm

Tune in to fiction. Each week on Selected Shorts, great actors from stage, screen and television bring short stories to life.


Program Listings

August 1, 2010
Wild Guys
"Gleason," by Louise Erdrich, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
"Red," by Maile Meloy, performed by Keith Szarabajka

August 8, 2010
Vacation Complications
"The Summer People," by Shirley Jackson, performed by René Auberjonois; "The Wrong Suitecase," by Maeve Binchy, performed by Cynthia Nixon

August 15, 2010
Passions Run Deep
"Bible," by Tobias Wolff, performed by Jane Alexander
"The Appropriation of Cultures," by Percival Everett, performed by Ruben Santiago Hudson

August 22, 2010
Let's Not Talk
"The Year of Silence," by Kevin Brockmeier, performed by Anthony Rapp; "Liberty Hall," by Ring Lardner, performed by Christina Pickles

August 29, 2010
Strange Rituals
"Second-Hand Man," by Rita Dove, performed by Audra McDonald; "The Winnowing of Mrs. Schuping," by Padgett Powell, performed by James Naughton

September 5, 2010
Women on a Mission
"A Shock for Countess," by C.S. Montanye, performed by Fionnula Flanagan; "Katherine Comes to Yellow Sky," by Mark Helprin, performed by Lisa Gay Hamilton

September 12, 2010
Two Tough Guy Writers
"The Creeping Siamese," by Dashiell Hammett, performed by John Shea; "Make Westing," Jack London, performed by Steven Gilborn

September 19, 2010
Trying to Cope
"We," by Mary Grimm, performed by Patricia Kalember
"Chivalry," by Neil Gaiman, performed by Jane Curtin

September 26, 2010
Unexpected Developments
"Sphinx," by Edgar Allan Poe, performed by Kathleen Widdoes
"Minuet," by Guy de Maupassant, performed by René Auberjonois; "The Toys of Peace," by Saki, performed by Dana Ivey; "Only the Dead Know Brooklyn," by Thomas Wolfe, performed by Isaiah Sheffer