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Homeless Bodies and Other Stories
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington, Imogen Church, Patience Tomlinson, Weruche Opia, Sarah Moss, Nikesh Patel
- Length: 6 hrs
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Anthologies & Short Stories
Publisher's Summary
Homeless Bodies and Other Stories is an original fiction podcast featuring audio-exclusive short stories from award-winning authors and Sunday Times best-sellers, inspired by objects & artefacts from Wellcome Collection’s permanent exhibition, 'Medicine Man', in London.
Exploring themes of otherness, humanity, history, society and belief, Homeless Bodies and Other Stories brings together a gripping collection of tales that are unsettlingly eerie and provokingly current. Objects that inspired Audible’s collection of stories include: a trepanned skull, drilled with holes to release trapped spirits; an iron scold’s bridle, used to punish ‘gossiping’ women; a 19th Century fragment of tattooed skin; a phrenology skull and an 18th Century wax vanitas head.
With six original, audio-exclusive stories, the collection includes brand new writing from: Imogen Hermes Gowar, Andrew Michael Hurley, Laura Purcell, Sarah Moss, Oyinkan Braithwaite and Haroun Khan.
Homeless Bodies and Other Stories sees these six authors probe the dark and twisted corners of humanity in an attempt to better understand ourselves and our place in the world with stories crafted specifically for the spoken-word. Before their stories, listeners will hear each of the authors in conversation with Wellcome’s curators as they find out more about their chosen object’s history.
With original musical composition and stirring sound design by Hana Walker-Brown.
This is an Audible Original Podcast. Free for members. You can download all 6 episodes to your Library now.
What the critics say
"Chilling." (The Times)
"If you have a taste for the macabre, then this is an engagingly morbid listen." (SFX)
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- Robert Dawson Link
- 2020-01-15
i couldn't get past the useless chatter at the
I was offended, two women kept repeating that men can't handle women sexuality at the intro. And women don't get jealous apparently, just men.
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- charlanda wise
- 2020-07-12
bored
I enjoyed the stories of the collection but found some of them not to my liking
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- Nadine Dansereau
- 2020-04-23
loved the concept
good and diverse stories some accents were hard to understand at first but by the end of the stories all was good
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- holly l
- 2020-01-06
Homeless Bodies
Really enjoyed these stories! Well written and well read, thanks! Hope other people can enjoy them soon!
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- Lisa
- 2020-01-03
Thoroughly enjoyable!
My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed this collection of short stories. They all left room for thought and dynamic discussion. Thank you Audible!