Didn’t See It Coming

Selected Shorts

Symphony Space

Arts, Fiction, Books, Society & Culture

4.4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Meg Wolitzer presents two stories with surprises the characters didn’t anticipate. A smart Mom defies expectations in “Agouti,” by Brenda Williams, performed by Laurine Towler. And a smart house has unexpected features in a classic by sci-fi master Ray Bradbury. Stephen Colbert reads “The Veldt.”

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0:00.0	I'm Meg Wallitzer and I may be the only thing that's not a surprise on this show about things
0:12.3	we didn't see coming.
0:13.9	A smart mom and a smart home turn the tables in the stories on this week's selected shorts.
0:19.6	Stick around, we've got really smart Stephen Colbert reading.
0:26.2	We're listening to selected shorts where our greatest actors transport us through the
0:30.4	magic of fiction.
0:31.9	One short story at a time.
0:43.0	Life is full of surprises.
0:45.2	Sometimes good ones.
0:46.3	You don't owe the IRS a penny.
0:48.4	Someone wants to give you an award.
0:50.0	The doctor says it's just a mole.
0:52.4	And sometimes not so good ones.
0:54.5	You owe the IRS how much?
0:56.7	You've got a bad review.
0:58.2	Your internet goes out in the middle of your important zoom presentation.
1:02.9	Writers like to surprise their characters once in a while and on this show, two excellent
1:06.8	examples of they didn't see that coming.
1:10.0	In the first, a traditional write of passage, meeting a loved one's parent for the first
1:14.2	time, has an added challenge and a twist.
1:17.7	In the second, a classic fantasy in which make believe gets out of hand and without warning
1:23.2	the ordinary becomes extraordinary.
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