Liars' League (London‪)‬ Liars' League

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 ...

Five fantastic actors read five new short stories of shadow-haunting monsters, heroic henchmen, epic wrestling battles, Guyanese bandits and how to save the world (maybe) ...

ORDER OF STORIES FOR HEROES & VILLAINS

Four Barrels of Ale by David Klotzkin, read by Tony Bell
Henchmen Wanted by Rhys Timson, read by Lisa Rose
The Greater Good by Marc-Anthony Hurr, read by Jeremiah O'Connor

INTERVAL & INFAMOUS BOOK QUIZ!

The Man Downstairs by Renesha Dhanraj, read by Anoushka Deshmukh
The Grappler by S. Tierney, read by Clive Greenwood

Host: Liam Hogan
Director: Katy Darby