Episodios

  • Charlotte Brontë - Napoleon and the Spectre

    Charlotte Brontë - Napoleon and the Spectre
    Nov 11 2025
    Charlotte Brontë wrote “Napoleon and the Spectre” in 1833, when she was 17. The story is taken from the manuscript of her novella The Green Dwarf. In its original context, the tale is overheard being told by “a little dapper man” to a group of Frenchmen at an inn (1996, 127). When it is finished, Napoleon himself enters the inn and arrests the little man for having recounted such a “scandalous anecdote” (1996, 130). Although extracts from the story appeared in a literary journal in 1897, it was not published in its entirety until 1919, when Clement Shorter printed a limited edition for private circulation. It was published for a wide audience for the first time in The Twelve Adventurers and Other Stories (1925) and has since appeared in editions of Brontë’s juvenilia and in various short story anthologies. (Source)

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    8 m
  • Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Firzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 2

    Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Firzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 2
    Nov 8 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.

    NOTE - TRIGGER WARNING
    This chapter has a derogatory term and has a scene of domestic violence.

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    23 m
  • Book of the week - YOU Can Make a Stradivarius Violin

    Book of the week - YOU Can Make a Stradivarius Violin
    Nov 8 2025
    Ever wanted to make a very valuable antique violin from the comfort of your own shed and the bits and pieces within? BEHOLD.

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    2 m
  • Barry Pain - Rose Rose

    Barry Pain - Rose Rose
    Nov 6 2025
    Born in Cambridge, Barry Eric Odell Pain was educated at Sedbergh School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He became a prominent contributor to The Granta. He was known as a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories.

    Rose Rose is a story from 1910, and is about a model who is always late. Until she is late permanently.

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    14 m
  • Walter De La Mare - The Looking Glass

    Walter De La Mare - The Looking Glass
    Nov 4 2025
    Walter John de la Mare was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children, for his poem "The Listeners", and for his psychological horror short fiction, including "Seaton's Aunt", "The Green Room" and "All Hallows". In 1921, his novel Memoirs of a Midget won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction,[3] and his post-war Collected Stories for Children won the 1947 Carnegie Medal for British children's books.

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    23 m
  • Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Firzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 1, Part 3

    Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Firzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 1, Part 3
    Nov 2 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
  • Book of the Week - 250 Times I Saw A Play by Keith Newman

    Book of the Week - 250 Times I Saw A Play by Keith Newman
    Nov 1 2025
    Keith Odo Newman, whom the Guardian has described as "a homosexual Austrian psychoanalyst," authored 250 Times I Saw A Play, which was published in 1944. As the title suggests, it describes his experience of watching a play 250 times.

    Book

    Original subject was a book about Birmingham.

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    1 m
  • Halloween Stories - The Signalman - Charles Dickens (REPEAT)

    Halloween Stories - The Signalman - Charles Dickens (REPEAT)
    Oct 31 2025
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    29 m