Podcast on Episode 932 for Tuesday the 24th of February 2026.

Karina by Anna Khan, read by Nicola Chapman and produced by Eric Valdez, rated PG-13.

Good morning, good day, good afternoon and good evening, and welcome to podcast, the Flying Castle of Fantasy Fiction.

I'm your host, Matt Dovey, and it is my privilege to present for your enjoyment.

Karina by Anna Kahn, narrated by Nicola Chapman.

This story is a podcast original and a wildly original one of that, and it is dense and

chewy and delightful like a bar of fantasy fiction Nougar and how about I shut up now

and let you hear it instead.

Anna Khan is a Manchester-based writer.

They've been a Barbican young poet, a member of the Roundhouse Collective and Roundhouse

slam finalist, and a London Library emerging writer.

They've gigged everywhere from tiny pubs to literary festivals to music festival main stages,

and their work has featured in publications

like Nature, Tractorbeam and The Rumpus.

Nicola Chapman has worked professionally as an actress for over 30 years in TV, film, radio

and internet. Her voiceover experience includes TV and radio advertising, singing jingles, film dubbing and synchronisation, training videos, corporate films, animation, video games and interactive voice response for telephone menus.

She spends most of her time running her voiceover business, Ofschimmer, which sources and provides translations, subtitles and voiceovers in over 40 languages.

She has been known to write a story or two, purely for her own enjoyment, but she loves

bringing other people's stories to life in the studio.

When not working, reading or playing with her cat, Nicola can often be found up to her elbows

in flower, trying to make the perfect briosh.

This may take a while.

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