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
About Writers - The Life and Works of Charles Dickens
Cnarles Dickens was one of the greatest writers of his or any other time. His works examine the human condition, and deal with lust for power, arrogrance, kindness, the cruelty and triumphs of life.
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00:43:09 |
Wed 07 May 2025
Algernon Blackwood - Keeping His Promise
A srudent recieves an unexpected visitor. A message is conveyed, a promise is kept.
H.P. Lovecraft wrote of Blackwood: "He is the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmosphere." His powerfu…
H.P. Lovecraft wrote of Blackwood: "He is the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmosphere." His powerfu…
00:29:34 |
Tue 06 May 2025
Saturday Night Serial - The Time Machine by H.G. Wells - Episode One
Episode One: Introduction
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 …
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 …
00:09:36 |
Sat 03 May 2025
E & H Heron - The Story of Baelbrow
The spirit of Baelbrow was a inoffensive and unintrusive ghost. But something changed. And not for the better.
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00:25:57 |
Thu 01 May 2025
Grimm Brothers - The Juniper Tree
The Juniper Tree" (also "The Almond Tree"; Low German: Von dem Machandelboom) is a German fairy tale published in Low German by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1812 (KHM 47).The story co…
00:14:37 |
Sat 29 Mar 2025
James Thurber - The MacBeth Murder Mystery
James Thurber is one of the funniest writers of his age, or most other age. I recommend him highly. His works are touching, nostaligic, well observed and above all, funny. He wrote the Secret Life of…
00:08:41 |
Fri 28 Mar 2025
JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters—shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting …
00:07:37 |
Thu 27 Mar 2025
Grimm Stories - Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
"Snow White" is a German fairy tale, first written down in the early 19th century. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection Grimms' Fairy Tales, numbered as Ta…
00:15:36 |
Sun 23 Mar 2025
M.R. James - The Haunted Dolls House
"The Haunted Doll's House" is a 1923 short story by M. R. James, collected by him in A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories. It was commissioned by Queen Mary, wife of George V, as a miniat…
00:25:27 |
Fri 07 Mar 2025
Answer by Fredric Brown (1954)
Dwan Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the subether bore throughout the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing.
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00:01:48 |
Thu 06 Mar 2025
Bros Grimm - The Golden Goose
The hero is the youngest of three brothers, given the nickname "Dummling" (Simpleton). His eldest brother is sent into the forest to chop wood (the Task), fortified with a rich cake and a bottle of w…
00:05:21 |
Wed 05 Mar 2025
Adam Blai - The Exorcism Files
Drawing from his extensive experience in assisting with cases of demonic oppression and possession, in The Exorcism Files, Adam Blai presents listeners with enlightening true stories and traces their…
00:06:09 |
Tue 04 Mar 2025
Edgar Allen Poe - The Sphinx
During the cholera outbreak in New York, a man visited his relative's cottage on the banks of the Hudson River. They spent their days engaging in various activities, but the news of death and disease…
00:09:31 |
Mon 03 Mar 2025
Duncan Black and Iain Dale - Prime Minister Boris
History resting on a hair's breadth … a man dies rather than lives, an election is lost rather than won, one minister is appointed, another dismissed, a coalition is joined, or not. Enter a world of …
00:04:01 |
Thu 27 Feb 2025
Grimm Brothers - The Robber Bridegroom
"The Robber Bridegroom" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 40. Joseph Jacobs included a variant, Mr Fox, in English Fairy Tales but the original provenance is much ol…
00:07:19 |
Wed 26 Feb 2025
Barry Cryer - Pigs can Fly
Throughout his career, Barry Cryer has collaborated with all the greats, from Max Miller to Tony Hancock, Bob Hope, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, John Cleese, Kenny Everett, Tommy Cooper, Spike Millig…
00:05:53 |
Tue 25 Feb 2025
The Brothers Grimm - The Seven Ravens
"The Seven Ravens" (German: Die sieben Raben) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm (KHM 25). It is of Aarne–Thompson type 451 ("The Maiden Who Seeks Her Brothers"), commonly found t…
00:04:39 |
Mon 10 Feb 2025
Brothers Grimm - Hansel and Gretel
Once again I have not had the time to go through and find a decent book to recommend, so here is a reading of the Grimm Brothers classic tale, Hansel and Gretel.
Enjoy.
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00:14:45 |
Tue 28 Jan 2025
Garry Shandling - Larry Sanders - The Autobiography of Larry Sanders
Told in Garry Shandling's inimitable style which weaves together fact and fiction so that it makes it impossible to determine the difference between Sanders and Shandling. This is a close-up inspecti…
00:06:08 |
Tue 21 Jan 2025
H.G. Wells - The Truth about Pyecraft
as I haven't read anything this week, and therefore would have to resort to providing a review of my bank statement, a pizza flyer or a note telling me there's a parcel left for me while I had the ti…
00:20:19 |
Tue 14 Jan 2025
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