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
Jean-François Marmion - The psychology of stupidity
Stupidity is all around us, from the colleagues who won't stop hitting 'reply all' to the former school friends posting conspiracy theories on Facebook. But in order to battle idiocy, we must first u…
00:02:56 |
Tue 24 Sep 2024
The Onion's Finest News Reporting - Vol1
The creators of The Onion present a collection of hilariously subversive news stories from their popular humor website, including such topical and timely events as "Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia,"…
00:06:30 |
Thu 19 Sep 2024
JFK - The Unspeakable - James Douglas
The acclaimed book Oliver Stone called "the best account I have read of this tragedy and its significance," JFK and the Unspeakable details not just how the conspiracy to assassinate President John F…
00:04:57 |
Tue 17 Sep 2024
Hugh Lloyd - Thank God For A Funny Face
Funnyman Hugh Lloyd's autobiography provides a light-hearted history of more than 60 years of high-profile showbusiness. His was a world populated by the likes of Cliff Richard, Tony Hancock, Anthony…
00:04:42 |
Thu 12 Sep 2024
Bob Mortimer - And Away
Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until, suddenly in 2015, he was diagnosed with a heart condition that required immediate surgery and forced him to cancel an upcoming tour. The episode…
00:03:52 |
Tue 10 Sep 2024
Peter Cook - Tragically I was an only twin
For his many friends and fans, Peter Cook was quite simply the funniest man they'd ever encountered. And nearly eight years since his death, his status as one of Britain's greatest comedians shows no…
00:04:28 |
Thu 05 Sep 2024
Flann O'Brien - Myles Away From Dublin
Flann O’Brien (Brian O’Nolan, aka Myles na Gopaleen) adopted not only a new name (George Knowall) for these rarely seen pieces, but also a new persona. Writing his column ‘Bones of Contention’ for th…
00:03:30 |
Tue 03 Sep 2024
Medieval Bodies - Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages
Dripping with blood and gold, fetishized and tortured, gateway to earthly delights and point of contact with the divine, forcibly divided and powerful even beyond death, there was no territory more c…
00:04:14 |
Sat 31 Aug 2024
The Haunting of Alma Fielding - A True Ghost Story
London, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home.Nandor Fodor - a Jewish Hungarian refugee and chief ghost hunter for the Internatio…
00:03:50 |
Thu 29 Aug 2024
The World As I See It by Albert Einstein: Albert Einstein's Philosophical Reflections on Life and Humanity
Embark on a journey through the brilliant mind of one of history's greatest thinkers with the thought-provoking book "The World As I See It" by the iconic physicist and author Albert Einstein. Dive i…
00:03:52 |
Thu 22 Aug 2024
Bryan Jackson - Why the Titanic was doomed
Titanic - the most magnificent ocean liner of her time - was doomed and destined for disaster before she ever left the docks at Southampton. Doomed by her owner, doomed by her designers, doomed by th…
00:03:56 |
Tue 20 Aug 2024
The Meaning of Liff - Douglas Adams and John Lloyd
The Meaning of Liff has sold hundreds of thousands of copies since it was first published in 1983, and remains a much-loved humour classic. This edition has been revised and updated, and includes The…
00:04:06 |
Thu 08 Aug 2024
Why the Titanic was Doomed: A Disaster of Circumstance
Titanic - the most magnificent ocean liner of her time - was doomed and destined for disaster before she ever left the docks at Southampton. Doomed by her owner, doomed by her designers, doomed by th…
00:04:56 |
Tue 06 Aug 2024
Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle introduced the world to Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in 1887's A Study in Scarlet, a true icon of literature was born. Since then, their humble address at 221B Baker Stre…
00:08:22 |
Fri 02 Aug 2024
Flann O'Brien - At Swim Two Birds
A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birds is the story of a young, lazy, and frequently drunk Irish college student who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dublin. Wh…
00:06:39 |
Mon 29 Jul 2024
Sleeping with Psychopaths = A chilling study of the innocent lovers of savage murderers -
Bestselling writer and criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee turns his attention to a new kind of victim: the wives or partners of serial murderers who remained unaware of exactly who they had fallen f…
00:04:38 |
Thu 11 Jul 2024
The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov -
Written in secret during the darkest days of Stalin's reign, The Master and Margarita became an overnight literary phenomenon when it was finally published it, signalling artistic freedom for Russian…
00:03:48 |
Tue 09 Jul 2024
Out of Thin Air - A True Story of Impossible Murder in Iceland
Every Icelander knows about the Gudmundur and Geirfinnur disappearances. 1974. In two separate incidents, two men vanished into thin air. Then, out of it came six murder confessions and six convictio…
00:03:58 |
Thu 04 Jul 2024
Oxford Book of Humourous Prose
Starting with Caxton in 1477 Frank Muir shows how humorous writing has developed and refined through five centuries by such practitioners and innovators as Jonathan Swift, Henry Fielding and Laurence…
00:04:49 |
Tue 02 Jul 2024
Nothing but the Truth: The Memoir of an Unlikely Lawyer
Just how do you become a barrister? Why do only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joining this mysteriously opaque profession? And why might a practising barrister come to feel the need to…
00:05:15 |
Thu 27 Jun 2024
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