Just Reads
Reads of classic stories, Occasionally reviews or brief biography of writers. But mostly me, reading stories.
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 11 minutes
- Episodes
- 145
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Epilogue
The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. The work is gene…
00:02:08 |
Sat 06 Sep 2025
Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 16 - After The Story
The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. The work is gene…
00:08:13 |
Sat 06 Sep 2025
JS Fletcher - The Other Sense
They have told me to-day, with obvious reluctance, and in the kindest fashion, that I am to go to-morrow to the house of a Dr. Schreiber, in whose care I am to remain until I am restored to health. R…
00:19:54 |
Thu 04 Sep 2025
Ambrose Bierce - The Bottomless Grave
A respectable family is forced into a life of crime, with unexpected consequences.
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00:17:10 |
Tue 02 Sep 2025
Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 15 - The Time Traveller Returns
The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. The work is gene…
00:02:58 |
Sat 30 Aug 2025
M.R.James - The Man Who Dwelt by The Churchyard
The temptation of man can be his downfall. Even when those he has robbed are dead.
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00:06:26 |
Thu 28 Aug 2025
Kenneth Grahame - Wind In The Willows - Toad Steals The Car
Toad, thinking he has recovered from his automobile addiction, finds he is not.
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00:02:37 |
Wed 27 Aug 2025
Kenneth Grahame - Wind In The Willows - The Cart and the Car
Exerpt from the book where Toad has had an intervention regarding his obsession with cars.
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00:04:13 |
Wed 27 Aug 2025
E G Swain - Bone to his Bones
A Reverend from the past sends a message to a Reverend of the future
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00:19:13 |
Tue 26 Aug 2025
Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 14 - A Further Vision
The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. The work is gene…
00:11:39 |
Sat 23 Aug 2025
Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland - The Tea Party
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a gir…
00:11:52 |
Wed 20 Aug 2025
Amelia B. Edwards - The Phantom Coach
Horror is perhaps best dictated to the senses – to the animal rather than the intellectual faculties. Amelia B. Edwards shoots for both in this cerebral but visceral tale by cushioning a quaint, fire…
00:29:47 |
Tue 19 Aug 2025
Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 13 - The Trap Of The White Sphinx
The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. The work is gene…
00:06:46 |
Sat 16 Aug 2025
Edgar Allen Poe - The Fall of the House of Usher (extract)
"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, then included in the collection Tales of the Grotesque …
00:17:23 |
Thu 14 Aug 2025
James Thurber - The Greatest Man In The World
The themes in "The Greatest Man in the World" by James Thurber include the nature of heroism and appearances versus reality. Jack Smurch displays bravery and independence but lacks traditional heroic…
00:16:53 |
Wed 13 Aug 2025
Gertrude Atherton - The Dead and the Countess
The dead sleep peacefully -- until a railway is built near their cemetery. While the old priest works to keep them at rest, the Count's dying wife begs to be buried near the railway. But when her las…
00:29:42 |
Tue 12 Aug 2025
Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 12 - In The Darkness
The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. The work is gene…
00:14:09 |
Sat 09 Aug 2025
Ray Bradbury - Zero Hour
"Zero Hour" by Ray Bradbury is a science fiction short story published in the late 1940s. The narrative explores the imaginative world of children and their seemingly innocent game, which takes a dar…
00:19:30 |
Thu 07 Aug 2025
Barry Pilton - In a Nutshell - Einstein's Watch
The late Leonard Rossiter recorded these for Radio 3 in the early 1980s. They remain one of the finest bits of comedic social satire of the age. Writer Barry Pilton's musings on assorted topic are ca…
00:04:46 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
Robert L. Stephenson - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (extract)
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is an 1886 Gothic horror novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It follows Gabriel John Utterson, a London-based legal practitioner who investigates …
00:07:55 |
Tue 05 Aug 2025
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