Just Reads

During the cholera outbreak in New York, a man visited his relative's cottage on the banks of the Hudson River. They spent their days engaging in various activities, but the news of death and disease from the city constantly haunted them.  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support . Please click 'like' and Subcribe and all the good stuff.

History resting on a hair's breadth … a man dies rather than lives, an election is lost rather than won, one minister is appointed, another dismissed, a coalition is joined, or not. Enter a world of political counterfactuals, twenty-two examinations of things that never happened - but could have. In this book a collection of distinguished commentators, including journalists, academics, former MPs...

"The Robber Bridegroom" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 40. Joseph Jacobs included a variant, Mr Fox, in English Fairy Tales but the original provenance is much older; Shakespeare (circa 1599) alludes to the Mr. Fox variant in Much Ado About Nothing, Act 1, Scene 1: Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support...

Throughout his career, Barry Cryer has collaborated with all the greats, from Max Miller to Tony Hancock, Bob Hope, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, John Cleese, Kenny Everett, Tommy Cooper, Spike Milligan, Morecambe and Wise ... in fact pretty well all the best comedians and comic writers since the mid-1950s. He has also collaboratively penned series like 'Hello Cheeky!', toured with Willie Rushton i...

" The Seven Ravens " (German: Die sieben Raben ) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm (KHM 25). It is of Aarne–Thompson type 451 ("The Maiden Who Seeks Her Brothers"), commonly found throughout Europe. Other variants of the Aarne–Thompson type include The Six Swans , The Twelve Wild Ducks , Udea and her Seven Brothers , The Wild Swans , and The Twelve Brothers . The 1937 animated...

Once again I have not had the time to go through and find a decent book to recommend, so here is a reading of the Grimm Brothers classic tale, Hansel and Gretel. Enjoy. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support . Please click 'like' and Subcribe and all the good stuff.

Told in Garry Shandling's inimitable style which weaves together fact and fiction so that it makes it impossible to determine the difference between Sanders and Shandling. This is a close-up inspection of what makes Larry Sanders tick: his loves, his addictions, his friends and his enemies. Book Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support . Plea...

as I haven't read anything this week, and therefore would have to resort to providing a review of my bank statement, a pizza flyer or a note telling me there's a parcel left for me while I had the timerity to be out, or read something quite good instead, I thought I would give you this It's H.G. Wells 'The Truth About Pyecraft'. Enjoy. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/p...

The Dead Sea Scrolls is a comprehensive guide to the meaning and significance of one of the most fascinating and controversial archaeological discoveries of the last century. - Provides an overview of the contents of the scrolls - Explores why the scrolls were written and when: are they from the time of Christ or are they copies of much older texts? - Explores the links between the ideas contained...

From Windsor to Weymouth, the shadow of scandal was never too far from the walls of the House of Hanover. Did a fearsome duke really commit murder or a royal mistress sell commissions to the highest bidders, and what was the truth behind George III's supposed secret marriage to a pretty Quaker? With everything from illegitimate children to illegal marriages, dead valets and equerries sneaking abou...

An aged compendium of events in history published in 1981 with even older jokes. Book Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support . Please click 'like' and Subcribe and all the good stuff.

On which day was history's shortest war waged and won (in roughly 40 minutes)? How was Napoleon bested by a group of rabbits in 1807? Why did a dispute about beer in an Oxford pub lead to over 100 deaths and 470 years of penance? Why in 1752 did Britain go to bed on 2nd September and wake up on the 14th? How did a women's march in 1917 set off the Russian Revolution? On This Day in History brings...

"The Signal-Man" is a horror mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round. The story is told from a fictional first-person perspective. The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podca...

New York-born John Kendrick Bangs was associate editor and then editor of Life and Harper magazines, eventually finding his way into the Humour department. Here he began to write his own satire and humour. Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others is a delightfully humourous collection of short tales relating encounters with ghosts. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just...

"The Body Snatcher" is a short story by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. First published in The Pall Mall Gazette in December 1884, its characters were based on criminals in the employ of the surgeon Robert Knox around the time of the notorious Burke and Hare murders in 1828. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support . Please click...

As one of the Christmas Ghost Stories, here is W.W.Jacobs tale of horror and fate, the Money's Paw Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support . Please click 'like' and Subcribe and all the good stuff.

M.R. James' Classic tale of an engraving which is more than just a picture. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support . Please click 'like' and Subcribe and all the good stuff.

A man remembers his encounter with an ancient demon who tells him a chilling story out of old Arabian Libya. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support . Please click 'like' and Subcribe and all the good stuff.

The Grimm Brothers The story of the youth who went forth to learn what fear was Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support . Please click 'like' and Subcribe and all the good stuff.

On Easter Monday 1983 armed robbers got into the supposedly impregnable Security Express depot in Shoreditch, neatly capturing the guards and holding them hostage. They hauled away 5 tons of cash, worth £6 million then (£26 million in today's currency). The gang made no mistakes and left behind not a single clue. Det. Supt Peter Wilton was the man in charge of the investigation. He spent years tra...

A reading of the Grimm tale, Briar Rose. This was the first one I did so it's probably not all that. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support . Please click 'like' and Subcribe and all the good stuff.

A reading of 'The Blue Light/ Blue Lantern' by The Brothers Grimm Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support . Please click 'like' and Subcribe and all the good stuff.

The dead talk. To the right listener, they tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died - and who killed them. Forensic scientists can unlock the mysteries of the past and help justice to be done using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene or the faintest of human traces. Forensics draws on interviews with top-level professionals, ground-breaking researc...

The classic Brothers Grimm tale of the Frog-Prince Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support . Please click 'like' and Subcribe and all the good stuff.

Over Xmas I thought I would do some reads. This is the classic Grimm story of Rumpelstiltskin Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support . Please click 'like' and Subcribe and all the good stuff.