Nudie Reads

Vanity, pride, and one heck of a twist. The French classic by Guy de Maupassant The Necklace 🎭💔💎🧵🇫🇷

Afraid of calculus? Don’t be. Englishman Silvanus P.Thompson wrote the cult classic Calculus Made Easy in 1910 and it’s been a bestseller ever since. you'll find it charming and surprisingly easy to follow. Great writing about numbers. 📚➗🧠=✨💡

George Orwell’s 1984 still sends shivers down the spine—this Sunday classic episode dives into the novel that defined dystopia and warned us all about the dangers of unchecked power. Big Brother is watching… but so are we. 📚👁️🕰️🧠🔥

In 1941 John D Rockefeller Jnr gave a short radio address from the Empire State Building to help the morale of troops shortly to be sent to war and give their families comfort. 10 Beliefs. 10 Rules for Life. 🖋️ 🏙️ ✨ 📜 🧠

Robert E Howard is the father of the fantasy literature sub-genre Sword & Sorcery. Conan The Barbarian was born from Howard's young and fertile Texan mind. It might not be high fantasy but it’s engaging and perfectly written for an audience craving weird adventure. 🧔‍♂️⚔️👑🐍🔥

Joe Colombo’s 1972 MoMA design statement for his Total Furnishing Unit - a radical living pod with kitchen, bed, bathroom and wardrobe, all built in. He called it the future. MoMA called it art. Severance just called the props department. Bold ideas, and gorgeous writing from an Italian design guru. 🛋️⚙️🇮🇹📺🧠

Jack and the Beanstalk —the 1807 version edited by Mary Shelley’s dad! Magic beans, golden eggs, a harp that sings, one courageous lad. And something missing! If you love folklore and great writing, this one’s for you. 🎧 Listen and share! 🧑🐔🎵💰🌱

What happens when the Cardinals take nearly 3 years to elect a Pope? You get conclave chaos , a roofless meeting hall, and a man named Teobaldo Visconti summoned home from Crusade to become Pope Gregory X . In this offbeat episode, I read from Archibald Bower’s vivid 1750 account of how one Pope cleaned up the mess with a decree that still governs papal elections today. ⛪🗳️📜🌧️✉️

Aesop’s Fables are timeless very short tales packed with wit, wisdom, and morals that still matter. Don't count your chickens before they hatch. Look before you leap. They've been educating and bringing joy for over 2600 years. Whether you're new to Aesop or grew up on these stories, there's something here for every curious mind.🐢🦊🐺🐸🦁

Gritty, operatic, great writing from the underworld of Prohibition-era Chicago 1929. A vivid newspaper report on the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, one of the most infamous gangland slaughters in American history. 🍸🗞️🔫💔❄️🕵️‍♂️

Shakespeare debuts on Nudie Reads ! The Merchant of Venice (1596) delivers high drama in Act 4’s courtroom scene, with Portia’s “quality of mercy” speech and a cunning legal twist. Mercy, justice, and contracts collide in one of the many of the Bard’s timeless works. 🎭📜 ⚖️💧

The story of St George is a corker. Slays a dragon, saves of princess, survives dreadful torture. Where does it come from? A rather odd English translation by publisher William Caxton of the 13th C classic collection The Golden Legend captured the weirdness. 🐉⚔️📖

Homer shines on Nudie Reads! The Odyssey (8th century BC) delivers epic adventure—Odysseus vs. the Cyclops is pure wit and grit. From TikTok to Hollywood, it’s a timeless tale people love to retell. 📜🚢

A poet, a painter, and a patriot’s ride! Grant Wood’s 1931 quirky pic The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere is a great visualcompanion for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” as it gallops through 250 year old history. Saddle up for an offbeat Thursday ep! 📜🐎

Lady Fortune spins her wheel. Boethius, a Roman in 534, imagined her as Lady Luck in person and wrote of her capricious ways in "On The Consolation of Philosophy" as he sat on death row. Wisdom from a condemned man. 📜🎡

Rock n roll and Roman history. There’s plenty of cross-over to consider. And a certain James Newell Osterberg Jnr better known as Iggy Pop penned a lovely review of Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in 1995 that proves it. Who knew he had it in him? 📖✨

Long before The Weave of US President Donald Trump there was  Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy , a wild 18th-century classic from England via Ireland more known for its detours than the autobiography it pretends to be. The OG weave and rather cheeky. 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 ⏰ 👶

The Fram2 spacecraft orbits Earth's polar regions for the first time ever. And The Fram, the OG ship of the 19th century was also a trailblzer. Nansen's diaries of her first Artic voyage are a gem of spellbinding writing. Great words from a Norwegian hero. Takk for listening! 📖✨

Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan contains his killer line about life being ‘nasty, brutish, and short’. He was grim fella but his work is a 17th century English classic of political thought. Lived to the ripe old age of 91, single the whole time and loved tennis. Who knew?🎾 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿✍️😡👺🩳

On March 16, 2025 Blue Ghost, a Texas-built lunar robot signed off with a hauntingly beautiful message straightfrom Mare Crisium, sketched by Galileo and named by Riccioli in the 17th century. Great, writing, from space. 🔭🚀🛰️

His name is a byword for being a pants man. But Casanova was also a classic Enlightenment era writer. He was a true libertine and his jailbreak story, from Venice's notoriously unbreakable Piombi prison, taken from his memoirs, is a ripping yarn. 🇮🇹🎼✍️😘

Nudie Reads the Book of Common Prayer 1662. Paul's letter to the Corinthians 13:1 on love, or charity. From Bergman’s films to metal riffs, “through a glass, darkly” haunts us still. Sending peaceful vibes for Lent to all listeners. 📖🔥

Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais is a Giant story - literally. Filled with wit and bawdy humour it is a five-book satirical masterpiece, first published in the 16th century. Perfect reading for Mardi Gras, the season of indulgence andrevelry. 🇫🇷📖✨

Experience the chilling legend of Sawney Bean, the Scot's cannibal and his demented clan, from a 1836 book that's as mysterious as its subjects.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📖✨

The Charge of the Light Brigade was written in 1854 by Alfred Lord Tennyson, inspired by the disastrous cavalry charge at the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War. Tennyson was one of the greatest poets of the Victorian era. You probably know this poem. It's loved and and recited still around the world. 🐎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧✍️