Podcast appearances and mentions of katy darby

For Valentine's, our adorable actors read six brand-new original short stories of love, lust & losing it - featuring medical dating, sexual surveillance, spies in (forbidden) love, banging in bookshops, tomcatting around & 24 ways to leave your lover. Heart's desire or hearts on fire, fall in love with our fiction ... DESIRE & DESPAIR STORIES: RUNNING ORDER "Gorgeous" by Al Crow, read by Patsy Prince "A Covert Affair" by Bronia Flett, read by David Vickery "24 Ways to Leave your Lover" by Andreas Paraskevaides, read by Carrie Cohen *INTERVAL & BOOK QUIZ* "We Have Nothing to Hide" by Jennifer Gaboury, read by Clareine Cronin "He Brings me Birds" by Cheryl Powell, read by Grace Cookey-Gam "By Appointment" by Lauren Van Schaik, read by Lizzie Muncey Directed, hosted & recorded by Katy Darby

Recorded live before a literature-loving London audience, professional actors read five brand new short stories of SPORTS & LEISURE. We've got state carnivals & frozen fairs; rifle ranges & pub quiz teams; stoned time-travellers, elephants, bears, & a lifelong friendship measured in marathon miles. So put in your earbuds and join us for a workout in words ... SPORTS & LEISURE STORIES - RUNNING ORDER "Frost Fair" by JJ Surtees, read by Claire Lacey "Back of the Pack" by Paul Lamb, read by Tony Bell "Romancing the Cherry" by Laura Morgan, read by Patsy Prince INTERVAL & BOOK QUIZ "Shooting Gallery" by Abigail Lee, read by Gloria Sanders "Incident 420" by Charlotte Davis, read by Sarah Barlex & Jay Hunt Hosted by Liam Hogan, directed & recorded by Katy Darby at The Phoenix, Cavendish Square, London on Tuesday 11th June 2024.

From office romances to vengeful fairies and laundromats to lunatic asylums, via kleptomania and commuting bears, we've a tasty selection of seductive stories for you to enjoy from our Valentine's Eve special! Listen on your own or share with a loved one (or two, or three ... MIX & MATCH RUNNING ORDER Introduction - Host Liam Hogan "Thrill" by Georgina Sims, read by Gloria Sanders "An Evening at the Faeling Cafe" by Charlotte Davis, read by Sophie Morris-Sheppard "The Sea Captain and the Mad Doctor" by Lianne Warr, read by Tony Bell "What Was and What Is" by Kathryn Sharpe, read by Katy Darby "Somebody" by Lanay Griessner, read by Lucy Mabbitt "Silver Lining" by Ricardo Visinho, read by Paul Clarke Director & Editor - Katy Darby

2023 sees the first UK Coronation in 70 years ... so our April event was themed on Royalty & Revolution - political, sexual, scientific & more. Our fantastic actors read brand new stories of murder PR, royal/rustic romance, grieving Queens, how to poison a tyrant & the political protest to end them all ... or will it? STORY RUNNING ORDER The Princess & the Kennel-Girl by Fiona Mossman - read by Patsy Prince Heads of State by Richie Jones - read by Nathaniel Ashley A Queen Cannot by Joseph Surtees - read by Lin Sagovsky INTERVAL & BOOK QUIZ The King's Potatoes by Jerome McFadden - read by Paul Clarke We Accept Your Demands by Oliver Bussell - read by Sarah Feathers Hosted by Liam Hogan, directed by Katy Darby. Recorded live at The Phoenix, Cavendish Square, London on Tuesday 11th April 2023

Six short stories, sexy & sad, frank & funny, riding the highs & lows of love, lust & everything in between. Meet agony aunts, lost loves, AI relationship mediators, singletons going spare, pill-popping avant-garde artists, mothers in despair & horny Victorian teens. RUNNING ORDER for AGONY & ECSTASY Introduction by Liam Hogan - Interview at the RSA by Sarah Richardson, read by Andrea Hall - Starfish by Donna Tracy, read by Linda Shannon - Meedy by Will Conway read by Rich Keeble - Mushroom by Melanie Carvalho, read by Katy Darby - Not Raven But Drowning by MJ Lee, read by Keleigh Wolf - Dear Miss Maguire by Amy Eddings, read by Oliver Yellop & Caroline O'Mahoney Hosted by Liam Hogan, directed & recorded by Katy Darby at The Phoenix, Cavendish Square, London on Tuesday 14th February, 2023.

Katy Darby, novelist, creative writing tutor and Liars' League supremo, discusses Sandra Newman and Howard Mittelmark's How Not to Write a Novel and her own work with me.

Spectating skulls. wandering words, and OAPs with antlers - feast your ears on the three winning stories from our July competition, plus our usual book quiz larks and an exclusive interview with authors, actors & Liars afterwards. HEADS & TAILS WINNING STORIES IN ORDER OF READING 1. The Special Circumstances of Mr Oakeshott by Paul Currion, read by Gloria Sanders 2. Mustard Moon by Sarah Evans, read by Rich Keeble 3. Day of Skulls by Simon Sylvester, read by Gabriel Moreno The story readings are followed by the winner's announcement, our infamous book quiz and a discussion of the stories (and many other things with Rupert Dastur of TSS Publishing. Panel includes author Paul Currior, actor/Liar Gloria Sanders, actor Rich Keeble and author Sarah Evans, plus questions from the floor (inc. Liam Hogan & Katy Darby of Liars' League.

In GBA 271 we get better acquainted with Nathaniel Tapley. He talks writing, if our current political landscape is killing satire, being a women on the internet for a short period of time, making political comedy, pissing off Dapper Laughs, creating the comic character Sir Ian Bowler, MP, the landscape of print and online media and so much more. @Natt plugs: Following him @natt and/or Sir Ian Bowler @sirianbowlermp on twitter. I plug: The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefamilytreepodcast We mention: Katy Darby: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-75-katy-darby Lollitics - Chris Coltrane: http://www.chriscoltrane.co.uk/lolitics-my-camden-political-comedy-club.html Lost Treasures of the Black Heart - Josie Long: http://www.losttreasurespodcast.com/ Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Sajeela Kershi: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-203-sajeela-kershi Comedy Cottage: http://www.harlequintheatre.co.uk/whats-on/comedy-cottage/ Sir Ian Bowler: https://twitter.com/sirianbowlermp Tonightly: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/tonightly Dapper Laughs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dapper_Laughs UsVSTh3m: http://www.mirror.co.uk/usvsth3m/ Rob Manuel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Manuel Dapper Laughs Cancelation: http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/dapper-laughs-tells-audience-member-4602725 Review of Christmas Album: http://usvsth3m.com/post/we-listened-to-all-25-painful-minutes-of-dapper-laughs-christmas-album-so-you-dont-have-to Abi Wilkinson: https://twitter.com/AbiWilks Jake Yapp: http://jakeyapp.co.uk/ David Ike: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke Toxic Masculinity: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Toxic_masculinity Charlie Hebdo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo Charlie Hebdo Racist Editorial: https://charliehebdo.fr/en/edito/how-did-we-end-up-here/ Alan Kurdi - Charlie Hebdo: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jan/14/charlie-hebdo-cartoon-depicting-drowned-child-alan-kurdi-sparks-racism-debate The Onion: http://www.theonion.com/ Clickhole: http://www.clickhole.com/ Canary: https://t.co/MEwTjn7IfH Rupert Murdoch Kelvin McKenzie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_MacKenzie Hillsborough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!

Ten stories of one hundred or one thousand words each to celebrate our hundredth event; featuring life, death, sex, money, darts, clocks, supercomputers, magical curses, balding, and the difference between Woody Allen and Woody Harrelson. PLAYLIST: (100) One Hundred Years by Joanne L. M. Williams, read by Lois Tucker (1000) Ripples by Jason Jackson, read by Greg Page (100) Uncle Phil by Tom McColl, read by Nicholas Delvallé (1000) Candle by Liam Hogan, read by Sarah Feathers (100) Impact by Katy Darby, read by Judith Quin (1000) Baldhead by Sean Preston, read by Adam Diggle INTERVAL & INFAMOUS BOOK QUIZ (100) Life. Sentence. by Gordon Williams, read by Carrie Cohen. (1000) One Thousand Rupees by Abigail Lee, read by Nicholas Delvallé (100) Fifteen by Joanne L. M. Williams, read by Miranda Harrison (1000) Asking Friends by Guy Russell, read by Gloria Sanders

What do you do when your office colleague refuses to lend you a stapler? Wreak bloody, disproportionate revenge, naturally! Song of the Stapler by Simon Jones was read by Katy Darby at the Liars' League Business & Pleasure event at the Phoenix, Cavendish Square, London, on Tuesday 10th September 2013.

In GBA 75 we get better acquainted with Katy Darby. She talks co-creating Liars' League, life before and after publication, the importance of editors, short stories, teaching and studying creative writing, how the Internet and eBooks are changing writing and more. Katy Plugs: Her Novel: The Whore's Asylum / The Unpierced Heart http://www.penguinrights.co.uk/Penguin/276809 http://lane7.wordpress.com/2012/09/05/judging-a-book-by-its-title-interview-about-the-renaming-of-the-whores-asylum/ Liars League: Website: http://www.liarsleague.com Next Live Show: Food & Drink, Tuesday 11th September, 7.30pm @ The Phoenix: http://liarsleague.typepad.com/liars_league/2012/09/food-drink-stories-for-tuesday-11th-september.html Twitter: http://twitter.com/liarsleague Search Facebook to join the group. YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/liarsleague Liars' League Leeds: http://liarsleague.typepad.com/liars_league/liars-league-leeds.html Liars' League New York: http://www.liarsleaguenyc.com/ Her Blog: http://katydarby.blogspot.co.uk/ Also mentioned: Spark London Hackney Launch, Monday 10th September 7.30pm @ The Hackney Attic): http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse/film/Spark_London_Story_Telling/ Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Neil Gaiman on prose piracy: http://blog.taleist.com/2011/02/12/ebook-promotion-neil-gaiman-says-piracy-is-really-marketing/ You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond. On-demand and on the go! Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at http://www.stitcher.com or in the app stores. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!