Listen with Other - a new podcast

Because grown-ups need story-time too.

A fake 1970s BBC schools record cover for Listen with Other

About this podcast

This podcast is an experiment to find a different outlet for my short stories as short audiobooks, as well as finding a way to combine my love of mixing and editing audio with presenting. It's self-hosted, carries no advertising, no sponsorship and is just for fun.

No generative AI is used in any part of the writing, recording, mixing or creation of any artwork for this podcast.

About the author

Giles Booth was born in Bristol and grew up in North Somerset. He’s a former teacher and BBC radio sound engineer. He enjoys reading and writing short fiction. His 2008 novella for young adults Constance Breakwater and her Beautiful Museumhood is available as an eBook and paperback via Amazon.

Series 3 - The Ring O'Bells

Listen with Other is back with a new short story for the new year - and a new arrangement of the sig tune. Join me in two episodes to discover how 1970s family Ouija board sessions come back to haunt our narrator in the present day.

Half of this story is true - but which half?

Episode 1 - Ouija Board, Ouija Board

Our narrator starts to tell the story of a perfectly normal Seventies family séance... then becomes aware that he is not quite where he wants to be.

Episode 2 - Two suits

Two strangers attempt to unravel the mystery of the Ring O'Bells.

Series 2 - No Service

This is a new audio book adaptation of a Christmas short story I wrote in 2014, inspired by two possibly unlikely bedfellows, Alan Garner and the late Shirley Hughes.

Episode 1 - Worst Christmas Ever

Lucy and Tom reluctantly go away for Christmas with their dad and his girlfriend.

Episode 2 - Lucy and Tom at Christmas

Lucy and Tom's first day in the cottage takes a strange turn.

Episode 3 - The Attic Room

Lucy and Tom explore a strange room in the loft.

Episode 4 - Last Christmas

Christmas Day does not quite go to plan.

Series 1 - The Merry Milkmaids

A young couple in London take a New Year break in Somerset, unaware of strange forces triangulating their lives.

Episode 1 - Get Out of London

Kate's birthday fell just after new year so it was always a struggle finding people in the mood to party. Hoping to exorcise the memory of a disastrous birthday party five years ago, her husband lan books a getaway in rural Somerset. Unfinished business with Margate Louise, a friend they lost touch with, a storm called Arthur and a stone circle that is not what it seems, ensure that this new year and birthday do not go to plan...

Episode 2 - A Shot Rang Out

An unexpected visitor interrupts Kate and Ian's getaway.

Episode 3 - The Merry Milkmaids

The trio meet some merry milkmaids and have a life-changing experience.

Many thanks to Ray Newman for the episode photographs of the Stanton Drew stone circle.

Listen with Other is a GSB Radio Enterprises production.