Short story podcast: Ali Smith reads A Conversation With My Father by Grace Paley

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About this Episode

Ali Smith reads a ‘breathtaking, breathgiving’ look at an argument between an elderly father and his writer daughterIn the original version of this podcast, Ali Smith’s reading was cut short. The version below has been corrected with the full-length reading

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