Stories from the Borders of Sleep

Dear Listener, Traditionally we know that cats and mice do not get on with one another - it's a cat-eat-mouse world! But here is a story that just asks "what if" a particular cat and a particular mous...

7 Juli 201117min

Three schoolboys and an idyllic midsummer evening on the river Thames, echoing in the memory forever. This is a short snapshot, the very briefest of autobiographical sketches from my early teens. Enjo...

23 Juni 201110min

Dear Listener, What is greatness, anyway? I guess we all have a different idea of what it means to be "great". Here is a story about someone who was rather like a lot of us, and certainly a lot like m...

9 Juni 201110min

What are archaeologists really looking for? This one is digging up his own soul. This week's story is longer than the usual Borders of Sleep fare and certainly longer than I would normally podcast; b...

27 Maj 201127min

If you were water, what sort of water would you be? Would you be the water in a stream or the water in a tree? Or would you be ice or vapour? And what would it be like to be able to see the path of an...

18 Apr 20117min

Here's a story that is a precise retelling of a dream that I had many years ago. Make of it what you will; but, for my part, I have never been able to escape the feeling that there is more life to be ...

28 Mars 201113min

Where a prince discovers that everything in his kingdom is also in his own soul.

3 Mars 201115min