Contents

• An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce ; performed by David McCallum
• The diamond necklace / Guy DeMaupassant ; performed by Claire Bloom
• Tobermory / Saki ; performed by Keith Baxter
• A painful case / James Joyce ; performed by Ciaran Hinds
• The jelly-bean / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; performed by Dylan Baker
• The garden party / Katherine Mansfield ; performed by Celia Johnson - - A hungry artist / Franz Kafka ; performed by Lotte Lenya
• University days / James Thurber ; performed by Richard Kiley
• A toast to Harlem / Langston Hughes ; performed by Ossie Davis
• Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty ; performed by the author
• The lottery / Shirley Jackson ; performed by Maureen Stapleton
• Persistence of desire / John Updike ; performed by the author
• We can remember it for you wholesale / Philip K. Dick ; performed by Keir Dullea
• Homeland / Barbara Kingsolver ; performed by the author