A selection of winning stories chosen from the large number of entries for the 2010 Commonwealth Short Story Competition.
You can listen to this week's story below.
The five-minute stories are broadcast throughout the week, so there's every chance you get to hear one of them. The line-up for the 2010-2011 radio season is as follows:
19 Oct - 25 Oct - Retirement by Schachi Kaul (India).
A daughter's view of her father's retirement (read by Sudah Bhuchar)
26 Oct - 01 Nov - From Dark by Karen Jennings (South Africa).
The hell and horror of illegal mining (read by Jack Klaff)
02 Nov - 08 Nov - Swallow Dive by Melissa Madore (Canada).
A moving story of loneliness and death (read by Barbara Barnes)
09 Nov - 15 Nov - Something from Nothing by Barbara Jenkins (Trinidad & Tobago).
A sweepstake sensation (read by Damian Lynch)
16 Nov - 22 Nov - Praise Be by Jena Woodhouse (Australia).
A marriage at the crossroads (read by Federay Holmes)
23 Nov - 29 Nov - The First Hello by Anuradha Kumar (India).
The promise of a village telephone (read by Sagar Arya)
30 Nov - 06 Dec - Grandma makes Meatballs by Iona Massey (Australia).
An international food fest (read by Federay Holmes)
07 Dec - 13 Dec - Dinner for Three by Shola Olowu-Asante (Nigeria).
A desperate quest (read by Nadine Marshall)
14 Dec - 20 Dec - Framing the Nation by Sylvia Schlettwein (Namibia).
Where to hand an old family painting? (read by Jack Klaff)
21 Dec - 27 Dec - Somewhere by Jude Dibia (Nigeria).
A child's tale of poverty and loss (read by Maynard Eziashi)
28 Dec - 03 Jan - Thembi's Bicycle by Rachel Tucker (South Africa).
A grandmother's grambling dreams (read by Jack Klaff)
04 Jan - 10 Jan - Being Reasonable by Sandeep Shete (India).
The end of a rough hourney (read by Sagar Arya)
11 Jan - 17 Jan - Judgement Day by Farah Ghuznavi (Bangladesh).
A sci-fi story of a marriage (read by Sudha Bhuchar)
18 Jan - 24 Jan - Vantage Point by Sandrina Abeywardene (Sri Lanka).
Kindness and violence on the streets of Colombo (read by Madhav Sharma)
25 Jan - 31 Jan - Ninth Life by Alison Grove (UK).
Too late for love? (read by Eleanor Bron)
01 Feb - 07 Feb - Education for Life by Anna Lewis (UK).
A young woman is determined to transform herself (read by Nadine Marshall)
08 Feb - 14 Feb - The Perfect Peppersoup by Ken Onyia (UK).
An act of love and remembrance (read by Maynard Eziashi)
15 Feb - 21 Feb - The Nearly Departed Soul by Rosemarie Johnson Clarke (Bahamas).
An irrepressible great grandmother (read by Dona Croll)
22 Feb - 28 Feb - This Place is Not for Sale by Stephen Ralph (Trinidad & Tobago).
The mystery of an old fisherman's house (read by Damian Lynch)
01 Mar - 07 Mar - Sister Rose by Lydia Vonyler (Grenada).
Lessons in lying (read by Dona Croll)
08 Mar - 14 Mar - A whiff of Bleach by Suelin Low Chew Tung (Grenada).
Loneliness and despair in the dry season (read by Dona Croll)
15 Mar - 21 Mar - The Kettle by Jason James Less (New Zealand).
A story from the boxing ring (read by Khalid Abdalla)
22 Mar - 28 Mar - The Beast that Came from the Sea by Lani Young (Samoa).
A natural disaster and a mother's tragic loss (read by Nadine Marshall).
- Produced by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association in London -
