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Reading: An Essay

Read by David Wales


Hugh Walpole


A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales

John Wyndham Chocky



Adapted for radio by John Tydeman 
With Eric Thompson Matthew is twelve, and a completely normal child. Suddenly he starts asking unusual qu…

This World Is Taboo

Read by Mark F. Smith


Murray Leinster


Calhoun is an Interstellar Medical Serviceman, and he's needed on Dara. Trouble is: Dara is forbidden. Taboo. And breaking quarantine will m…

A Man Obsessed

Read by Mark Nelson


Alan Edward Nourse and Alan E. Nourse


Jeffrey Meyer had a killing on his mind. It meant nothing to him that his towering Twenty-first Century world was going mad. He shouldered a…

Literary Taste: How to Form It

Read by Timothy Ferguson


Arnold Bennett


Arnold Bennett describes a method for enjoying literature, and suggests the contents of a comprehensive library. Chapters 1-10 and 14 descri…

An Amiable Charlatan

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


E. Phillips Oppenheim


An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…

Behind the Beyond

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Stephen Leacock


A collection containing a parody on Problem Plays, as well as humorous anecdotes from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by Tricia…

Electricity

Read by Myke Bartlett


Myke Bartlett


1999 - Aston Somerfield, casual smoker and part-time alcoholic, has come to London to find himself. He knows who he's looking for, he's seen…

Deep Thoughts

Read by Michael R. Mennenga


Michael R. Mennenga


Short-form Humor from the mind of Michael R. Mennenga. Editorial on daily life and the human condition.

The Chameleon Chronicles: Colors of Fate

Read by Andrew S. Leiter


Andrew S. Leiter


Andrew Webbur's journey of Fate begins when he is confronted by his long time nemesis, Jason Vanzant. Jason accuses Andrew of stealing his …

George Eliot

Read by Catherine Brown


Catherine Brown


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Autobiography of an Electron

Read by Laura Victoria


Charles R. Gibson


"While many scientific men now understand our place in the universe, we electrons are anxious that every person should know the very im…

Forty-One Letters on Religious Subjects

Read by InTheDesert


John Newton


Among the excellences which appear in all the published letters of Newton, we may mention:In the first place, the grand design — the high an…

Malcolm

Read by Devorah Allen


George MacDonald


Malcolm MacPhail has lived, for all of his twenty or so years, in a fishing village on the north coast of Scotland. He lives with his grandf…

Society as I Have Found It

Read by John Greenman


Ward Mcallister


Mark Twain illustrator Dan Beard recalled discussing McAllister’s book with Twain. “It was before Webster & Company failed that Ward McA…

A Bid For Fortune; Or, Dr Nikola's Vendetta

Read by Peter John Keeble


Guy Boothby


Guy Newell Boothby (1867 – 1905) was a prolific Australian writer. He moved to London in 1894 and became most well-known for his Dr.Nikola m…

The Search

Read by LikeManyWaters


Grace Livingston Hill


“On the day the drafted men march away, Ruth MacDonald catches John Cameron's eye and waves to him. In the excitement of the moment they bot…

Kenilworth

Read by skoval


Sir Walter Scott


An Elizabethan era historical novel by Scotland's master of fiction, Sir Walter Scott. With a cast of historical and created characters, inc…

Lost and Not Found

Read by Teel McClanahan III


Teel McClanahan III


Lost and Not Found details one man’s journey all the way from being laid off from his mundane corporate job to becoming the author he truly …

Christopher Quarles: College Professor and Master Detective

Read by Tony Posante


Percy James Brebner


Christopher Quarles is a professor of philosophy and a private consulting detective. Quarles, along with his granddaughter Zena, assists Pol…

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