Radiostation Stories

"Then why don't I marry you!" Yu Dong suddenly proposed. "You..." Xia Feng thought he had misheard. "You see, you're looking for someone to marr...

"Iruma, remember to keep a face even when not seen by the audience." "I got that, but I'm still a little nervous." Ever wonder what the character c...

Blam!! A sudden force on my back knocked me over in a second. No time to figure out what had just happened. I was sprawled front-down on the floor with a weight on my ba...

I was standing over the motionless body of my line manager. He was dead to the world, naked under the sheet on his bed. Neither my arrival in his studio apartment throug...

Why does Toronto have such insipid and boring radio? Our city is vibrant, artistic, culturally diverse and entertaining, so why is none of that reflected in our uninspir...

It was a little after seven o'clock in the morning when the phone rang. Normally, I would already have been out of bed by that hour on a weekday. However, the previous n...

Technological advances made during the last two to three decades have changed our world almost beyond recognition. Everyone now has the ability to be almost permanently...

"Gimme your money!" he shouted, pointing a pistol at me. He had jumped out from behind some bushes. It was a dark winter evening. I was alone. Nobody was about...

Korean IT-girl Jennie Kim gets buried under a collapsed tunnel where she has to survive for days - waiting for the rescue workers. Her only silver-lightning is a radio f...

"I'm SO sorry," I grovelled to the petite musician on whose foot I had just accidentally trodden. We were stood side-by-side in the record library - my 'office...

I only knew 'Roger Tate' (real name Bob Tomalski) through listening to his programmes on the radio. He was a DJ on 'Radio Invicta', London's first soul music radio stati...

It's midnight. Or Supposed to be midnight. The car clock continues to read 13:20, and as far as the car goes, it's not on military times. That isn't even military time...

"I understand you're an expert in messaging," said the woman sat behind the desk. I looked blank. I had absolutely no idea what she was talking about. If she m...

It was only just daylight when I suddenly realised that the phone was ringing. It seemed to take me ages to drag my weary body out of bed, as the phone continued to ring...

"You will present a weekly two-hour rock music show on Saturday night," my manager informed me. No if's or but's. No offer over which to mull. No demo tape to...

"Clackety-clack clackety-clack, from Kalamazoo to Timbuctoo, from Timbuctoo and back!" As a young reader, I learned these words by heart from a favourite child...

"I am a paediatric doctor," said the young woman cleaning the toilet bowl in the bathroom of my apartment. "I work at the hospital during the day but I ca...

We were standing in a concert hall designed like a futuristic room on the 'Discovery One' spaceship in the film '2001'. Every feature was brilliant white. White plastic...

"Would you like to dance?" the girl asked. I was dumbfounded. Nobody had ever asked me to dance. Particularly a girl! "Er, no thanks," I mumbled path...

When my wife took a job at the United Biscuits factory in Harlesden, she understood she would be making 'Digestives' ... and she was correct. When I took a job at The Ra...