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Listen to Hugh Dancy read Agatha Christie!

He starts at about 35 minutes in. 

(Selected Shorts)

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Guest host Guest host Neil Gaiman two tales of illusion. In “Miracle Polish,” by Steven Millhauser, the protagonist buys a gimmicky product from a door-to-door salesman that changes his life—or does it? The reader is Paul Hecht. In the classic by English writer “Saki,” a teenager turns “The Open Window,” into her own personal horror story. The reader is Tandy Cronyn.

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Guest host Hope Davis introduces a story by Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro. In “How I Met My Husband,” a young girl from a rural community grows up fast in the course of a summer. And the narrator of Aimee Bender’s “The Meeting” is sure he’s met the wrong girl; but he can’t seem to stay away. Amy Ryan reads the Munro; Paul Hecht reads the Bender.

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Guest host Hope Davis introduces a story by Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro. In “How I Met My Husband,” a young girl from a rural community grows up fast in the course of a summer. And the narrator of Aimee Bender’s “The Meeting” is sure he’s met the wrong girl; but he can’t seem to stay away. Amy Ryan reads the Munro; Paul Hecht reads the Bender.

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Guest host Hope Davis introduces writings from the quarterly food journal Lucky Peach, founded by celebrity chef David Chang, owner of Momofuku, and writer Peter Meehan. Learn about Chinese drinking games, perfect marmalade, cooking in the South Pole, and Marc Maron’s cast iron pots. Also, a piece of noir fiction about the hunt for a priceless cloud ear mushroom.