Tall And True Short Reads

Introducing Season Four (19 September 2023)

Tall And True Short Reads is a storytelling podcast featuring short stories, blog posts and other writing from the Tall And True writers’ website, written and narrated by Robert Fairhead.

Season Four will start with a multi-part, longer short story I wrote in June 2023, Some Things Change, consisting of three vignettes set in different locations and times but with a common thread: a pair of cousins from Perth, Western Australia, exploring Australia’s troubled history and relationship with Indigenous peoples.

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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

When I launched Tall And True Short Reads in 2020, I called it an “audio fiction podcast”. But in my introduction to Season Three in September 2022, I observed how I’d realised I was producing storytelling episodes, whether based on short stories or blog posts, fiction or nonfiction, or tall and true tales.

In Season Three, I released 19 episodes featuring short stories, blog posts and other writing about my dogs, travels, and memoir pieces, including a multi-part instalment on my Two Visits to the Berlin Wall in 1987 and 1995 (listen to Part One and Part Two).

Season Four will also start with a multi-part episode, a longer short story I wrote for The Big Issue Fiction Edition in June 2023, Some Things Change. It consists of three vignettes, set in different locations and times but with a common thread: two protagonists, a pair of cousins from Perth, Western Australia, exploring Australia’s troubled history and relationship with Indigenous peoples.

While the story draws on elements of autofiction from my life growing up in Perth, it’s mostly imagination. But, the parts about Indigenous Australians are factual, as objective reading and research will confirm. And I wrote it while campaigning for a Yes Vote for the Referendum to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Australian Constitution and afford them the respect of an enshrined Voice to Parliament on matters that affect their lives, culture and outcomes.

The first episode of Season Four will be released shortly. In the meantime, check your feed or the podcast website for the 78 episodes from the first three seasons of Tall And True Short Reads.

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, Apple Books, and Kobo online bookstores — links are available in the show notes.

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 storytelling 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

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.

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 are licensed under Creative Commons 0 from FreeSound.org.

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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