Liars' League (London‪)‬ Liars' League

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
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INTERVAL & BOOK QUIZ
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"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 ...