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
Stephen Hodge - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Essential Guide to Their Origin, Meaning and Significance
The Dead Sea Scrolls is a comprehensive guide to the meaning and significance of one of the most fascinating and controversial archaeological discoveries of the last century. - Provides an overview o…
00:06:07 |
Thu 09 Jan 2025
Catherine Curzon - The Scandal of George III's Court
From Windsor to Weymouth, the shadow of scandal was never too far from the walls of the House of Hanover. Did a fearsome duke really commit murder or a royal mistress sell commissions to the highest …
00:05:22 |
Tue 07 Jan 2025
Bob Monkhouse - Book of Days
An aged compendium of events in history published in 1981 with even older jokes.
Book
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Book
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00:04:07 |
Thu 02 Jan 2025
Dan Snow - On This Day In History
On which day was history's shortest war waged and won (in roughly 40 minutes)? How was Napoleon bested by a group of rabbits in 1807? Why did a dispute about beer in an Oxford pub lead to over 100 de…
00:04:11 |
Tue 31 Dec 2024
Charles Dickens - The Signalman
"The Signal-Man" is a horror mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round. The story is told from a f…
00:27:16 |
Wed 25 Dec 2024
Christmas Ghost Stories - J. K. Bangs - Ghosts that have haunted me
New York-born John Kendrick Bangs was associate editor and then editor of Life and Harper magazines, eventually finding his way into the Humour department. Here he began to write his own satire and h…
00:02:58 |
Tue 24 Dec 2024
R.L. Stevenson - The Bodysnatchers
"The Body Snatcher" is a short story by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. First published in The Pall Mall Gazette in December 1884, its characters were based on criminals in the employ of …
00:31:05 |
Mon 23 Dec 2024
Christmas Ghost Stories - W.W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw
As one of the Christmas Ghost Stories, here is W.W.Jacobs tale of horror and fate, the Money's Paw
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00:21:55 |
Sun 22 Dec 2024
Christmas Ghost Stories - M.R. James - The Mezzotint
M.R. James' Classic tale of an engraving which is more than just a picture.
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00:23:03 |
Sat 21 Dec 2024
Christmas Ghost Stories - Edgar Allan Poe - The Silence
A man remembers his encounter with an ancient demon who tells him a chilling story out of old Arabian Libya.
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00:07:48 |
Fri 20 Dec 2024
Christmas Stories - The story of the youth who went forth to learn what fear was
The Grimm Brothers The story of the youth who went forth to learn what fear was
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00:19:20 |
Fri 20 Dec 2024
Pete Sawyer (and others) - Gotcha
On Easter Monday 1983 armed robbers got into the supposedly impregnable Security Express depot in Shoreditch, neatly capturing the guards and holding them hostage. They hauled away 5 tons of cash, wo…
00:06:06 |
Thu 19 Dec 2024
Christmas Stories - Briar Rose
A reading of the Grimm tale, Briar Rose.
This was the first one I did so it's probably not all that.
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This was the first one I did so it's probably not all that.
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00:06:52 |
Thu 19 Dec 2024
Christmas Stories - The Blue Light
A reading of 'The Blue Light/ Blue Lantern' by The Brothers Grimm
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00:08:36 |
Wed 18 Dec 2024
Val McDermid - Forensice - The Anatomy of Crime
The dead talk. To the right listener, they tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died - and who killed them. Forensic scientists can unlock the mysteries of the…
00:03:38 |
Tue 17 Dec 2024
Christmas Stories - The Frog Prince
The classic Brothers Grimm tale of the Frog-Prince
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00:05:40 |
Tue 17 Dec 2024
Christmas Stories - Rumpelstiltskin
Over Xmas I thought I would do some reads.
This is the classic Grimm story of Rumpelstiltskin
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This is the classic Grimm story of Rumpelstiltskin
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00:05:46 |
Mon 16 Dec 2024
Les Dawson - A Clown Too Many
Les Dawson was many things - slum kid, soldier, boxer, insurance agent, vacuum-cleaner salesman and one of Britain's best-loved comedians. In this autobiography he tells of ten hard years in the nort…
00:07:48 |
Tue 10 Dec 2024
Fred Dinage - Reg And Ron Kray: Our Story
The Kray twins were Britain's most notorious gangsters. Ruling London's underworld for more than a decade, as gang lords they were among the most powerful and feared men in the city. Photographed by …
00:05:11 |
Thu 05 Dec 2024
Garth Marenghi's Terrortome
When horror writer Nick Steen gets sucked into a cursed typewriter by the terrifying Type-Face, Dark Lord of the Prolix, the hellish visions inside his head are unleashed for real. Forced to fight hi…
00:05:03 |
Tue 03 Dec 2024
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