2024-09-17
35 分钟Lisa Dwyer Hogg reads Hamlet, a Love Story by Lucy Caldwell, the first shortlisted story for the 2024 BBC National Short Story Award, followed by an interview with the author on BBC Radio 4's Front Row Podcast presented and produced by Rick Woska
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Welcome back to the BBC short story podcast, where this week we're going to showcase the five shortlisted stories from the 2024 BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University.
The first story on our shortlist comes from a former winner of the award, Lucy Caldwell, whose story is a heartrending contemplation of love, life and grief, told through the story of actress Sonya and the death of her Hamlet Spence.
Hamlet, a love story is read by Lisa Dwyer Hogg.
A love story by Lucy Caldwell, read by Lisa Dwyer Hogg.
After the after party, I slept with Callum.
I hadn't intended to, though.
As it was happening, something about it felt weirdly inevitable.
That night, he'd run the play straight through, no loops.
From the wings, it felt taut and direct, Hamlet hurtling towards his fate.
As Ethan's Horatio spoke the flights of angels lines, he was actually trembling.
In the dozens and dozens of times we'd done the play, Hamlet had never died.
But he was dead now.
They were all dead.
Finally.
Everyone who had to be.
It was over.
It was the end for me because I hadn't played Ophelia this time.
And if the production did go on to have a proper off Broadway run, they'd recast anyway.
American Actors Union crew it was Callum's farewell in a different sort of way.