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
H.G. Wells - The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells is a clever, short novella that describes the exploits of the “Invisible Man.” The man, whose real name is Griffin, turns up at an inn at the beginning of the book. A …
00:10:55 |
Thu 28 Nov 2024
George Grossmith & Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody
Mr Pooter is a man of modest ambitions, content with his ordinary life. Yet he always seems to be troubled by disagreeable tradesmen, impertinent young office clerks and wayward friends, not to menti…
00:04:59 |
Tue 26 Nov 2024
PJ O'Rouke - All the Trouble In the World
With All the Trouble in the World, P. J. O'Rourke once again landed on best-seller lists around the country, confirming his reputation as the pre-eminent political humorist of our time. Attacking fas…
00:04:42 |
Tue 19 Nov 2024
Monty Python - Just the Words
Monty Python's Flying Circus was first broadcast in October 1969. This newly originated volume contains the complete unexpurgated scripts of the original television series (except for the animation b…
00:05:56 |
Thu 14 Nov 2024
Book of General Ignorance
An indispensable compendium of popular misconceptions, misunderstandings and common mistakes culled from the hit BBC show, QI.
From the bestselling authors of The Book of General Ignorance comes a not…
From the bestselling authors of The Book of General Ignorance comes a not…
00:04:18 |
Tue 12 Nov 2024
Mary L. Trump - Too Much and Never Enough (Repeat)
In light of recent events, I thought it might be apposite to republish this, which is probably the best book on the motivations, psychology and back story of the new President of the United States.
Ma…
Ma…
00:03:26 |
Fri 08 Nov 2024
Simon Mayo - Worst of the Radio 1 Confessions
These tell-all tales are from Radio 1FM's listener's slot - the "Breakfast Show". Pillars of society - doctors, teachers, vicars, vets and generally those who ought to know better - reveal that they'…
00:07:10 |
Fri 08 Nov 2024
Woody Allen - Side Effects
Woody Allen's first of three short narrative collections.
A humor classic by one of the funniest writers today, SIDE EFFECTS is a treat for all those who know his work and those just discovering how g…
A humor classic by one of the funniest writers today, SIDE EFFECTS is a treat for all those who know his work and those just discovering how g…
00:04:49 |
Tue 05 Nov 2024
Steve Martin - Pure Drivel
'A mix of urbane wit and surreal extrapolations - Douglas Adams meets Flann O'Brien' IndependentWho else but Steve Martin could combine irrefutable evidence that Mars is populated by kittens with a t…
00:05:04 |
Thu 31 Oct 2024
Charles Bronson - My Journey Into Hell
Broadmoor: My Journey into Hell documents the story of long-term prisoner Charlie Bronson and his five-year stay at Britain's most notorious mental hospital, Broadmoor. His journey has, until now, ne…
00:03:31 |
Tue 29 Oct 2024
Ronnie Barker - All I Ever Wrote
Ronnie Barker has long been known as one of Britain’s greatest comedy performers. But he was also responsible for writing much of the material he performed, often hiding the fact from the public by u…
00:07:56 |
Thu 24 Oct 2024
Neil Brandwood - Victoria Wood The Biography
Victoria Wood's wit and humour endeared her to millions of TV viewers for over four decades. Writer, producer and actress of television shows such as As Seen on TV and Dinnerladies, Victoria was ofte…
00:04:55 |
Tue 22 Oct 2024
Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's G…
00:05:57 |
Thu 17 Oct 2024
Stephen Fry - Making History
Michael Young is a brilliant young history student whose life is changed when he meets Leo Zuckerman, an ageing physicist with a theory that can change worlds.
Together they realise that they have the…
Together they realise that they have the…
00:02:26 |
Tue 15 Oct 2024
Kerry Jamieson - The Golden Door
1930, New York. In the unbearable heat of summer, Irish immigrant Will Carthy works as a riveter on the tallest skyscraper in the world, spending his days above the clouds and his nights fighting lon…
00:02:54 |
Thu 10 Oct 2024
Paul Britton - Jigsaw Man
The autobiography of Paul Britton, one of the foremost offender profilers in the world. What he searches for at the scene of a crime are not fingerprints, fibres or blood stains, he looks for the "mi…
00:03:52 |
Tue 08 Oct 2024
Cynthia True - American Scream
He was a radical stand up who dared to question the values of small town America and the evils of American foreign policy. Ruthlessly honest, a voice of reason in what he saw as an insane world, Hick…
00:03:39 |
Thu 03 Oct 2024
James Thurber - My Life and Hard Times
Widely hailed as one of the finest humorist of the twentieth century, James Thurber looks back at his own life growing up in Columbus, Ohio, with the same humor and sharp wit that defined his famous …
00:03:25 |
Tue 01 Oct 2024
Miriam Margoyles - This Much is true
BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, MIRIAM MARGOLYES, OBE, …
00:04:14 |
Thu 26 Sep 2024
Thomas Burke - Short Story - The Hollow Man
A short story called the Hollow Man by Thomas Burke
Good stuff.
This selection of 42 stories written between 1829 and 1968 is the first to present the full range and vitality of the English tradition o…
Good stuff.
This selection of 42 stories written between 1829 and 1968 is the first to present the full range and vitality of the English tradition o…
00:04:46 |
Tue 24 Sep 2024
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