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Story Radio Writers' Salon on the theme of Love
Episode 651st May 2025 • Story Radio Podcast • Story Radio Podcast
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A Story Radio Salon on the theme of Love, with readings from works in progress by some of our regular writer guests.

Kristin Burniston is a graduate of the MA Screenwriting program at the University of Arts London. In 2023, her short film scripts TREE and HAIRY MARY were selected by the City of Angels Film Festival, WOFFF (where HAIRY MARY placed 2nd), and Best-Script, London.

Recently, Kristin‘s script EGGS was made into a short film and will soon be released on to the festival circuit. Currently, Kristin is working on a London-based children’s animation, a crime fiction TV series, and a feature film script based on her menopausal rite-of-passage novel.

Lindsay Gillespie was born in South Wales, and lives in the South Downs. In between she has been a graphic designer and illustrator, lived in New Delhi, Washington DC, France and taught English in Tokyo. In 2018-2019, she was enrolled in the Creative Writing Programme of New Writing South. She writes short and not-so-short stories and was a Costa 2021 Short Story Award finalist. A year later, she was a finalist for the Bridport Short Story Prize. Other short stories have been shortlisted in nine competitions in recent years including Fiction Factory, Exeter, Oxford Flash Fiction, Fiction Factory Flash, Rhys Davies, Frome, ChipLit, Edinburgh and Fish.

Miki Lentin completed an MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck and was a finalist for the 2020 Irish Novel Fair with Winter Sun. His short stories have been published in Litro and Story Radio. He released his short story collection Inner Core in 2022, and his debut novel Winter Sun was published by Afsana Press.

Lana Citron is a prize-winning author and scriptwriter with twenty years’ professional writing experience. She has published five novels, two non-fiction books and numerous short stories, plays, poems, film scripts, articles and book. Extracts read today are from her book Edible Pleasures, a Textbook of Aphrodisiacs.

Martin Nathan‘s short fiction and poetry have appeared in various journals. His novel A Place of Safety is published by Salt Publishing. His dramatic writing has been shortlisted for the Nick Darke Award and the Woodward International Prize. Martin will be reading from a new short story.

Founder and co-host of the Story Radio Podcast, Tabitha Potts is a short story writer and novelist. She received an Honourable Mention in the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize for her story ‘Poppet’ and is publishing her debut novel The House of Dust and Shadows in 2026 with Rowan Prose Publishing.

The podcast is recorded live in the Colony Room Green bar.

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Hello and welcome to Story Radio.

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This month we have a recording from one

of our live events at the Colony Rooms,

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and this time we set a theme of love as

it was very close to Valentine's Day.

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And we were interested to see

what's a new material might be

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generated by having a theme.

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How do you think it went?

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Tabatha?

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Did you enjoy it?

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I really enjoyed it.

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We had a very frank and funny, no holds

barred story from Kristin Burnin, which

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I thought really set the tone for the

event and we had, lovely reading by

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Lindsay Gillespie of her Story Lover Man.

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Yeah.

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Which we features on here

once before Lala Citron's live

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demonstration of kissing from her.

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Booked, didn't we?

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Yes.

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Very funny.

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Lana's such a brilliant person to

listen to live because she really

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interacts with the audience and

makes everything into an event.

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Yeah.

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And I think Mickey ignored

the think altogether, but it

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was a good story all the same.

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It was about a man on the way

to, to see his lover in Dublin

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after the just before lockdown.

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I imagine so.

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So there was a reference to love there,

but it was a lot of it was about the

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unbearableness of other people on his

flight, which is very entertaining.

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Yeah.

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And then there was your

story about computer love.

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That's right.

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Funnily enough, I wrote this years

ago, but I'm now studying how to code.

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I think in a funny way, I think

this story, which is very much

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about women in a men's world was

perhaps showed how interested I

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already was in computing and coding.

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Yeah.

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And then I had a story about,

I can't remember what it was.

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Oh yeah.

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Proposal and, consequences.

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Yes.

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Your main character Paul, is very

very funny with his sort of funny

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but also tragic with his sort of

obsession with money and wanting

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to improve his lot in life.

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And, his his struggle to be among

the people that he has to be

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among in order to achieve that.

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Have a listen, and I hope you enjoy it.

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And yeah, our next event is coming

up in June and it's the theme.

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June the ninth.

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June the ninth.

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And the theme is libraries.

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Well, a library, the library.

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We're still considering submissions.

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So if any of you out there are writers

and want to send something in send

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it in via our submissions page and

put library in your subject line.

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Okay, thanks very much.

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