Episodios

  • Simon Raven - The Bottle of 1912
    Dec 2 2025
    Simon Arthur Noël Raven was an English author, playwright, essayist, television writer, and screenwriter. He is known for his louche lifestyle as much as for his literary output.

    Raven is remembered for his ten-novel sequence Alms for Oblivion and its baroque, supernatural sequels The Roses of Picardie and September Castle; as well as The Feathers of Death, an exploratory early army novel dealing with homosexuality between officers and "other ranks"

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    13 m
  • Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Firzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 5
    Nov 29 2025
    The Great Gatsby is a 1925 tragedy novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire obsessed with reuniting with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922.

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    18 m
  • Serial Catch up - The Great Gatsby
    Nov 29 2025
    The first four chapters of the Great Gatsby

    Chapter five to ffollow.

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    1 h y 52 m
  • Book of the Week - Feeding per Rectum as illustrated in the case of the late President Garfield and others
    Nov 29 2025
    Marketed to what can only ever be described as a niche audience, this book talks much about enemas and the ability to feed yourself without putting anything in your mouth.

    Book

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    2 m
  • Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Firzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 4, Part 5
    Nov 21 2025
    The Great Gatsby is a 1925 tragedy novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire obsessed with reuniting with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922.

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    3 m
  • Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Firzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 4, Part 4
    Nov 20 2025
    The Great Gatsby is a 1925 tragedy novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire obsessed with reuniting with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922.

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    6 m
  • Washington Irving - The Legend of Don Sancho Muncho
    Nov 20 2025
    The Legend of Don Munio Sancho de Hinojosa is a historical and chivalric short story by Washington Irving, first published in Wolfert’s Roost and Miscellanies in 1855. The tale is set in medieval Spain during the time of the Reconquista, a period in which Christian kingdoms were battling the Moors for control of the Iberian Peninsula.

    Please forgive some of the pronounciation.

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    12 m
  • Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Firzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 4, Part 3
    Nov 19 2025
    The Great Gatsby is a 1925 tragedy novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire obsessed with reuniting with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922.

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    7 m