For Reading Out Loud

London, To Build a Fire, 12-7-25 07.12.2025 44:29 ↓

About as cold as it gets: Jack London's "To Build a Fire"

P. G. Wodehouse, The Nodder 30.11.2025 37:34 ↓

A Hollywood yarn from P. G. Wodehouse: "The Nodder"

Wilde:Coward 11-25 23.11.2025 33:59 ↓

Two stories by two great wits and storytellers: Oscar Wilde and Noël Coward

Ambrose Bierce, Horseman in the Sky 02.11.2025 21:42 ↓

Ambrose Bierce's famous and startling Civil War story, "A Horseman in the Sky"

P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Love That Purifies 19.10.2025 44:15 ↓

It has been said that P. G. Wodehouse’s inimitable comic style was as hard to analyze as his emotions; one critic described the task as “taking a spade to a soufflé.” So no need to subject it to analysis, just relax and enjoy Wodehouse's "Jeeves and the Love That Purifies."

Will James, The Seeing Eye, 10-12-25 13.10.2025 38:06 ↓

A Western tale by the gifted storyteller and illustrator Will James, "The Seeing Eye"

Jesse Lynch Williams, The City Editor's Conscience 05.10.2025 23:16 ↓

Off to the world of newspapers in Jesse Lynch Williams's "The City Editor's Conscience"

Rudyard Kipling, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi 28.09.2025 31:47 ↓

Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of a fearless mongoose and the family that took him in: Rikki-Tikki Tavi

Elinor Mordaunt, Genius 21.09.2025 1:08:07 ↓

Elinor Mordaunt's "Genius," a story of a brilliant, unworldly talent and its pursuit of a concert career

Somerset Maugham, The Portrait of a Gentleman, The Ant and the Grasshopper 14.09.2025 25:37 ↓

How to live in an uncertain or chaotic world? Two stories by W. Somerset Maugham.

W. H. Hudson, Story of a Piebald Horse 07.09.2025 28:09 ↓

Internationally famous as a naturalist and ornithologist, he also wrote novels and short stories set in his native Argentina. Tonight's story is W. H. Hudson's romance, "Story of a Piebald Horse."

Agatha Christie, Motive Versus Opportunity 31.08.2025 30:39 ↓

Miss Marple in full flower in this early mystery from The Tuesday Night Club: "Motive Versus Opportunity"

PG Wodehouse, Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo 24.08.2025 39:46 ↓

Their fancy may take them odd directions, but fishermen are certainly entertaining company. P. G. Wodehouse's Mr. Mulliner spins a yarn in "Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo."

Great Beginnings 25 22.08.2025 18:29 ↓

Good beginnings, in film, in poetry, in fiction, are solid and memorable gold. Do you have favorites? Here are some of mine.

Stefan Zweig, The Invisible Collection 8:10:25 10.08.2025 35:40 ↓

Stefan Zweig's intriguing classic story "The Invisible Colleciton"

Maupassant, Graveyard Sisterhood, Decoration, 8-3-25 03.08.2025 34:10 ↓

On the occasion of his 175th birthday, two stories by the French Master Guy de Maupassant

Thomas Beer, Tact 27.07.2025 49:04 ↓

A story about an amiable and resourceful small-town family by Thomas Beer, entitled simply "Tact."

Grazia Deledda, The Open Door 20.07.2025 25:00 ↓

Nobel Prize-winning Italian author Grazia Deledda's "The Open Door"

Ernest Thompson Seton, The Biography of a Grizzly, Part 2 13.07.2025 47:54 ↓

The second and concluding part of Ernest Thompson Seton's The Biography of a Grizzlhy

Ernest Thompson Seton, The Biography of a Grizzly*, 1:2 10.07.2025 46:22 ↓

The first of two episodes: Ernest Thompson Seton, The Biography of a Grizzly

Kathleen Norris, Shandon Waters 29.06.2025 29:29 ↓

Kathleen Norris's plainly told and moving story of a young widow and mother on the fringes of a tight-knit community.

Jacques Futrelle, The Problem of Cell 13, Part 2 22.06.2025 44:45 ↓

He made a preposterous bet, but don't sell Professor Van Dusen short: the conclusion of "The Problem of Cell 13" by Jacques Futrelle.

Jacques Futrelle, The Problem of Cell !3, Part 1 15.06.2025 42:15 ↓

A ruthless practitioner of logic, Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen accepts the challenge of escaping from a high security prison. Can his logic work its way around this concrete and iron cage?

Jerome K. Jerome, Elizabeth von Arnim 08.06.2025 29:39 ↓

Two short spring pieces tonight, by Jerome K. Jerome (Three Men in a Boat) and Elizabeth von Armin (The Enchanted April)

Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood 01.06.2025 26:19 ↓

Once upon a time, before there were the Brothers Grimm, there was Charles Perrault, and he gave us (among others) the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty. Here is the story from his collection of Mother Goose Tales, first published in 1697. His children were charmed. I hope you will enjoy it, too.