# Shifting Identities

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Podcast: [Selected Shorts](https://stenobird.com/podcast/selected-shorts-2124093)
Published: 2026-07-30T17:00:26+00:00
Episode link: https://soundcloud.com/selectedshorts/shifting-identities
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## Resource

Host Meg Wolitzer presents two works about shifting identities. In “Voices”, by German writer Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Carol Brown Janeway, a computer technician’s mobile phone takes over his life—and not in the usual way. The reader is David Costabile. Writer Chika Unigwe sets a subtle story of social exploitation in the teeming city of Lagos. The reader is Yetide Badaki, who commented on the story during a backstage interview.

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