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🗓️ 29 December 2016
⏱️ 39 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello, this is Everything Else, the Culture Podcast from The Financial Times. |
0:10.7 | My name's John Sonia. |
0:11.9 | And I'm Griselda Murray Brown. |
0:13.2 | And we're both culture journalists here at the FT. |
0:15.7 | So, by the time you'll be listening to this, John and I will be far away having doubled our Bollyway eating |
0:21.0 | minced pies and Christmas pudding. |
0:26.9 | John, what are you going to be up to? What are you doing for Christmas? |
0:30.1 | Staying in London, have lots of family here, and I'm just actually negotiating whether I'm |
0:34.1 | allowed to go to Arsenal on Boxing Day, which will really annoy a large chunk of my close family. So you're not going to Arsenal with your family? No, no, it wouldn't be. Enough family time. No, they never come. They would really not want to come. Okay, so on today's show, we have a short story by David Saloy. Something a bit different for the festive period. |
1:14.3 | Yeah. Yeah. It's different, but it's not very festive, I'm afraid. It's called Pig Killing Day. Right. Yeah. So each year Life and Arts Commission a short story, Laurie and Kite and Rebecca Rose, our books editors. Last year we had Lydia Davis write one. People that don't know, David Saloy is a Booker Prize shortlisted author for All That Man is. |
1:17.9 | He was also named one of Grant's Best of Young British Noblists in 2013. |
1:21.1 | So he's definitely one of the kind of leading writers of his generation. |
1:25.3 | Luckily for us, he wrote us a short story and he's also read it out for us. |
1:28.4 | Yeah, he went into the studio in Budapest, recorded story and here it is we hope you enjoy pig killing day i have a hangover on pig killing day |
1:42.6 | i wake in the dark with a headache and start to put on my clothes. |
1:47.9 | "'It is 5.30 in the morning. |
1:51.4 | "'Outside there is a crud of snow on the empty street. |
1:55.1 | "'Snow is still falling through the light of street lamps, |
1:58.2 | "'and from somewhere I hear the sound of tyres, |
2:02.5 | "'whispering over a thin layer of snow, moving slowly. There are sets of tracks in the road, black and dark grey and grey, |
2:11.8 | where other vehicles have passed earlier while the snow fell. With my hat pulled down to my eyebrows, I wait at the place where I said I would |
2:19.8 | meet Attila, wondering whether this is in fact something I want to do. I've been telling people |
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