#9: A Corpse Waiting to be Washed

Listen now | Playwriting, Milestones and Stranger Things

Dec 17 • Courtenay Schembri Gray ✰

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47:52

November 2025

#8: The Gold Star Effect ⭐️

Listen now | On prize culture in the writing industry

Nov 19 • Courtenay Schembri Gray ✰

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34:13

#7: Bright Stupid Confetti

Listen now | On my fondness for Sylvia Plath

Nov 12 • Courtenay Schembri Gray ✰

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31:41

October 2025

Sestina for a Nesting Doll

Poem

Oct 29 • Courtenay Schembri Gray ✰

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#6: The Way We Live Now

The Arts Council (ACE), Favouritism, Richard Osman and the Marginalised v. the Privileged

Oct 24 • Courtenay Schembri Gray ✰

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2

31:55

#5: Ghost Cries Under the Stage

Listen now | Spooks, Ghosts, and Bodachs

Oct 15 • Courtenay Schembri Gray ✰

1

38:37

#4: Neurodivergence is a Solar System 🪐

Listen now | Neurodivergence, mental health & celestial bodies

Oct 7 • Courtenay Schembri Gray ✰

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1

32:48

#3: Who's Afraid of Daphne du Maurier?

Listen now | Daphne du Maurier, The Art of the Short Story, and Bonfire Toffee

Oct 1 • Courtenay Schembri Gray ✰

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2

30:16

September 2025

#2: The Dream Was Always You

Listen now | Dream diaries, long distance relationships and mysticism

Sep 23 • Courtenay Schembri Gray ✰

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1

31:39

#1: Labour Like a Beast, Die Like a Worm

Listen now | Updates, Rambles, Recommendations and Nature

Sep 17 • Courtenay Schembri Gray ✰

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1

10:00

The Wuthering of Emerald Fennell

On the 'Wuthering Heights' discourse, to ejaculate v. ejaculation, and the responsibility of adaptation

Sep 6 • Courtenay Schembri Gray ✰

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August 2025

The Bard and I

On my enduring love for Shakespeare

Aug 29 • Courtenay Schembri Gray ✰

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