This week's podcast features a short story from the award-winning writer Patrick Ness, performed by the actor Christopher Eccleston in an immersive dramatisation. Now That You've Died was staged at London's Roundhouse during Read for RNIB day, as part of a campaign to make books more accessible to blind and partially-sighted people.
Best-known as a writer for young adults, this year Fourth Estate is reissuing some of Ness's work for grown-ups: a novel called The Crash of Hennington, and a collection of short fiction, Topics About Which I Know Nothing, including Now That You've Died. He joins us in the studio to examine when a short story is no longer a short story, and the differences in writing for adults and teenagers.
