Tall And True Short Reads

Season Three Trailer (9 September 2022)

The Tall And True Short Reads storytelling podcast features short stories, blog posts and other writing written and narrated by Robert Fairhead from the Tall And True writers’ website. Launched in September 2020, Season Three starts in September 2022 with a “story that begins at the end”, Once Upon A Time.

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Buy Robert’s short story collections online:

• Amazon Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Fairhead/e/B086HZ36NM
• Apple Books:     https://books.apple.com/us/author/robert-fairhead/id1436773436
• Rakuten Kobo:  https://www.kobo.com/au/en/author/robert-fairhead

Writer’s and Podcaster’s Insight

In September 2020, I launched the Tall And True Short Reads podcast, featuring short stories written and narrated by me from the Tall And True writers’ website.

My goal for the podcast was to share and showcase something I love doing, writing, on a medium that I also love, podcasting. In Season One, I released thirty-two episodes, consisting of seventeen standalone short stories and two multi-chapter instalments.

For Season Two in September 2021, in addition to short stories, I expanded the podcast to include my blog posts from Tall And True. And I launched the podcast website.

Season Two featured twenty-six episodes, a mix of fiction and nonfiction writing. And like Season One, each episode concluded with my Writer’s Insight explaining when, why and how I wrote the short story or blog post.

When I introduced Tall And True Short Reads in 2020, I called it an “audio fiction podcast”. But two seasons on, I’ve realised I’m producing storytelling episodes, whether they’re based on short stories and blog posts, fiction and nonfiction, or tall and true tales.

And so, with Season Three, I plan to include other examples of my storytelling from Tall And True — on dogs, travel, memoir and other topics — and the comedy routine I promised in Episode 40 of the podcast, My One Night Stand. And there will be more multi-part episodes, like Back to School and Both Sides of the Story from Season One.

The first episode of Season Three of Tall And True Short Reads, to be released later in September, fittingly starts with a “story that begins at the end”, Once Upon A Time. In the meantime, check your feed or the podcast website for all fifty-eight episodes from Seasons One and Two.

You can read all my blog posts, short stories and other writing at TallAndTrue.com. You can also buy my short story collections from the Amazon Kindle and Kobo online bookstores.

And please follow or subscribe to Tall And True Short Reads and rate and review it via your favourite app — doing so helps me share my writing with other listeners.

You can also support this podcast financially by making a small one-off or regular donation via the Acast Supporter Page.

And finally, please tell your family and friends about Tall And True Short Reads and the Tall And True writers’ website.

Podcast Theme and Sound Effects

Royalty-free music from Pixabay.com: Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major, Op. 28 ‘Pastorale’ – IV. Rondo. Allegro ma non-Troppo, performed by Karine Gilanyan.

Sound effects licensed under Creative Commons 0 from FreeSound.org:

• Canned Laughter: https://freesound.org/people/Evil_Ear_Recordings/sounds/524775/
• School bell: https://freesound.org/people/13FPanska_Stranska_Michaela/sounds/378394/

Production Notes

Tall And True Short Reads is produced using Audacity.

Podcast episodes are recorded in Sydney, Australia, on the traditional lands of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation.

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