Radiant Whispers
All we have to comfort, guide us and sustain us in this straggling path called life are the radiant whispers that we grasp as a distant “sunrise of wonder” in our spiritual practice, in great works of literature, music, art, and in nature and blue skies. These are the Radiant Whispers. That's what this podcast is about. We will talk about culture and society, about ancient and modern history, literature and art with dramatized readings of poetry, fables, theatre, novels and stories. Subscribe -let's find radiant whispers everywhere.
- Update frequency
- every 30 days
- Average duration
- 19 minutes
- Episodes
- 64
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
The Teachings Of Jesus
The Sermon on the Mount is a collection of Jesus' teachings to a group of simple people who followed him everywhere. It is not a theological dissertation for intellectuals, nor a discourse delivered …
00:26:17 |
Mon 01 Nov 2021
The Hero´s journey
If you have ever thought of writing a novel, a short story, a film script, a play, take advantage of this sequence of twelve steps known as The Hero's Journey. This is the path that the hero follows …
00:27:18 |
Wed 22 Sep 2021
The Power of Myths
We all need myths. Myths are foundational stories that give us life, and without them, we die. Myths are great truths disguising as stories. Human beings need myths because we are stories made of sto…
00:31:24 |
Sun 01 Aug 2021
Human Voices In The Stars
Did you know human voices are travelling in interstellar space right now, beyond the
confines of our Solar System?
This is a fascinating story of human achievement and endeavour, and a tribute to the…
00:12:39 |
Wed 30 Sep 2020
Demosthenes Howls At The Sea
Demosthenes Howls At The Sea by Gabriel Porras
00:13:30 |
Mon 31 Aug 2020
Plato: Allegory of the Cave
At the beginning of chapter VII of his seminal work The Republic, Plato talks of a group of people who live in a cave, enslaved with chains around their neck and feet. They have never left the cave; …
00:17:01 |
Fri 31 Jul 2020
Pablo Neruda: Odes to life
Three of my favourite poems from Neruda’s luminous collection Elementary Odes. Enjoy!
00:13:36 |
Tue 30 Jun 2020
I survived COVID-19
I'm one of the blessed ones who survived the coronavirus attack. What brought me through that problematic trance, and what lessons did I learn? I share everything here with my best wishes.
Credits:…
00:19:11 |
Fri 29 May 2020
Love conquers death - The last days of Jesus on earth
This is the Easter story: the last days of the most influential character in history, narrated with masterful detail and emotion by the Greek physician Luke, in chapters 22 to 24 of his Gospel. A dra…
00:36:27 |
Sun 12 Apr 2020
When no one listens to you, Chekhov
Do you ever feel so lonely and sad that you don't know where to turn? In moments like these, the best medicine the world can offer you is not money, sex or power, but love - a single compassionate pe…
00:20:56 |
Fri 31 Jan 2020
The Desert Oddysey
Do you know what happened to Joseph, Mary and the baby Jesus right after Christmas? They all became refugees. They were already dirt poor and homeless; now, they also became fugitives. Today we do a …
00:19:26 |
Sat 28 Dec 2019
Noah's Ark
Did you know that there are dozens and dozens of stories of a great flood in the most diverse and disparate cultures, from Japan to the Maya, from Babylon to Polynesia, from the Eskimos to the Austra…
00:35:47 |
Wed 27 Nov 2019
The Big Friendly Giant by Roald Dahl
Buenos días and welcome back to Radiant Whispers! Today it's all sheer fun and wild imagination with the big and spiky Roald Dahl, surely one of the most beloved writers of all time. And rightly so -…
00:16:46 |
Wed 09 Oct 2019
A book of fabled creatures
Juan José Arreola is one of the greatest Latin-American writers of the XX Century, one of the first to dare to abandon realism. This is how Professor George D Schade introduces Juan José Arreola and …
00:28:26 |
Wed 04 Sep 2019
The Song of Wisdom
The Song of Wisdom is one of the oldest poems in world literature. It ponders how men are willing to face indescribable risks to descend into the bowels of the earth in tiny baskets or flimsy ropes t…
00:09:19 |
Fri 02 Aug 2019
Axolotl, by Julio Cortázar
Today we open our space to a brilliant Franco- Argentinian writer: Julio Cortázar. We listen to one of his most celebrated stories, inspired by one of the most beautiful and enigmatic amphibians on E…
00:18:51 |
Fri 19 Jul 2019
The Circular Ruins, by Jorge Luis Borges
The story we read today is by a true giant of Latin American and world literature, the Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges. The Circular Ruins is a masterpiece of fantasy literature, and deals with how dre…
00:21:12 |
Fri 05 Jul 2019
Daniel in the lions' den
The story we read today takes us back to the mythical city of Babylon, that great capital on the banks of the Euphrates, acclaimed for those legendary hanging gardens that were one of the seven wonde…
00:28:36 |
Tue 18 Jun 2019
Tale of the Unknown Island, by José Saramago
Today I will read you a perfect story by the Portuguese José Saramago. Saramago won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998, after the publication of his novel Blindness, which is the most disturbing …
00:50:20 |
Wed 05 Jun 2019
Job — Calamity is not a punishment
Today I am going to read you a fragment of an old text that is considered -and I quote- "one of the most noble works of world literature": the Book of Job.
00:36:08 |
Wed 22 May 2019
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