Aloud features authors and literary critics reading, analyzing and discussing their favourite short stories. Every month we invite a prominent Vancouver-based author or critic to share one of their favourite pieces of short fiction on air. The show - one hour in length - begins with the guest reading selections from the story and ends with an engaging discussion of the work with Aloud host, David Gaertner - a UBC postdoctoral fellow with a PhD in Literature. Theme and interstitial music provided by Vancouver musician Jason Starnes with support from UBC's First Nations Studies Program