The Healing Voice

Please feel free to send me a text message. What is the cost of a conscience? What tips the balance? Saki is in little doubt (with his tongue firmly in his cheek, of course). Support the show Read for The Healing Voice by Colin WD McLean colin@vocalflair.co.uk

Please feel free to send me a text message. What price a work of art? -oOo- Support the show Read for The Healing Voice by Colin WD McLean colin@vocalflair.co.uk

Please feel free to send me a text message. When does a grudge end? -oOo- Support the show Read for The Healing Voice by Colin WD McLean colin@vocalflair.co.uk

Please feel free to send me a text message. Tricky business, winning an argument when your opposite number remains challengingly silent. Saki delights as usual. -oOo- Support the show Read for The Healing Voice by Colin WD McLean colin@vocalflair.co.uk

Please feel free to send me a text message. What's better than a good story to keep children entertained? A better option, it turns out, is an improper story. You have been warned. March 2026 Support the show Read for The Healing Voice by Colin WD McLean colin@vocalflair.co.uk

Please feel free to send me a text message. Might a crisis make you change your long-held views?  Will that work out?  Let Saki explain ..  Support the show Read for The Healing Voice by Colin WD McLean colin@vocalflair.co.uk

Please feel free to send me a text message. Saki pokes yet more fun at Edwardian society, and children's education in particular. In Lady Carlotta, we meet something of a free spirit in an era of otherwise strict social codes. -oOo- Support the show Read for The Healing Voice by Colin WD McLean colin@vocalflair.co.uk

Please feel free to send me a text message. One of Edgar Allan Poe's finest. Certainly one of his best known, if not best loved, short stories. It is a challenge to us to keep a clear conscience .. and a warning as to what befalls us if we cannot. Warning: horror and gory detail; what else should we expect from EAP? -oOo- Support the show Read for The Healing Voice by Colin WD McLean colin@vo...

Please feel free to send me a text message. A talking cat? That shouldn't be so very challenging. Surely ..  In one of Saki's finest stories the humour and the gentle digs at Edwardian society are very evident. -oOo- Support the show Read for The Healing Voice by Colin WD McLean colin@vocalflair.co.uk

Please feel free to send me a text message. ' The Story of an Hour' is a short story written by Kate Chopin on April 19, 1894. It was originally published in Vogue on December 6, 1894, as " The Dream of an Hour ". It was later reprinted in St. Louis Life on January 5, 1895, as "The Story of an Hour". The title of the short story refers to the time elapsed between the...

Please feel free to send me a text message. How to pick the Derby winner. One house guest may have the answer. (Culinary note: it was often the fashion, at least in the UK, to serve whitebait with a slice or two of buttered brown bread.) A short story by Saki.  Read for The Healing Voice by Colin WD McLean.  February 2026 Support the show Read for The Healing Voice by Colin WD McLean colin@vocalfl...

Please feel free to send me a text message. Ozymandias is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1817.  It was first published in The Examiner on January 11, 1818, under the pen name Glirastes .  The poem was inspired by the Greek name for the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II , known as Ozymandias, and was part of a friendly poetry competition with fellow poet Horace Smi...

Please feel free to send me a text message. How dark do you like your short stories? Edgar Allen Poe does not disappoint in this short but poignant tale of short-sightedness and hubris. Support the show Read for The Healing Voice by Colin WD McLean colin@vocalflair.co.uk

Please feel free to send me a text message. Whar price imagination? Or good manners? Saki flexes his short story muscles to telling effect. A master of the genre. Support the show Read for The Healing Voice by Colin WD McLean colin@vocalflair.co.uk

Please feel free to send me a text message. The Year's Awakening is a poem by Thomas Hardy, published in his 1914 collection Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Remedies .  Written in February 1910, the poem reflects on the subtle, almost imperceptible signs of spring emerging after a long winter. Support the show Read for The Healing Voice by Colin WD McLean colin@vocalflair.co.uk

Please feel free to send me a text message. Written by Colin WD McLean. Support the show Read for The Healing Voice by Colin WD McLean colin@vocalflair.co.uk

Please feel free to send me a text message. Written by Colin WD McLean Support the show Read for The Healing Voice by Colin WD McLean colin@vocalflair.co.uk

Please feel free to send me a text message. Is there a better way to write Christmas 'Thank You' letters? Egbert thinks so. Janetta needs convincing. Saki in delightfully inventive mode. Support the show Read for The Healing Voice by Colin WD McLean colin@vocalflair.co.uk

Please feel free to send me a text message. A testing time for Theodoric as he travels with an unwanted additional passenger. Saki, as ever, keeps us guessing. Support the show Read for The Healing Voice by Colin WD McLean colin@vocalflair.co.uk

Please feel free to send me a text message. Just two chaps having a chat on a park bench. Or so it seems. The art of spinning a story from the master story teller himself. Support the show Read for The Healing Voice by Colin WD McLean colin@vocalflair.co.uk

Please feel free to send me a text message. Inspired by a sermon given in St Paul's Cathedral, London, following the death of King Edward VII, this poem has remained a firm favourite with those who mourn ever since. Here in its full form. May it bring comfort to those who need to hear it, now or in the future. Support the show Read for The Healing Voice by Colin WD McLean colin@vocalflair.co....

Please feel free to send me a text message. A Children's Classic Novel, published in 1911, written by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is, understandably, another novel very much of its own time but still much enjoyed today by children of all ages. Mary discovers a Secret Garden and in time both are transformed by the encounter. Read more about the novel, and the author, here: https://en.wikipedia...

Please feel free to send me a text message. A Children's Classic Novel, published in 1911, written by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is, understandably, another novel very much of its own time but still much enjoyed today by children of all ages. Mary discovers a Secret Garden and in time both are transformed by the encounter. Read more about the novel, and the author, here: https://en.wikipedia...

Please feel free to send me a text message. A Children's Classic Novel, published in 1911, written by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is, understandably, another novel very much of its own time but still much enjoyed today by children of all ages. Mary discovers a Secret Garden and in time both are transformed by the encounter. Read more about the novel, and the author, here: https://en.wikipedia...

Please feel free to send me a text message. A Children's Classic Novel, published in 1911, written by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is, understandably, another novel very much of its own time but still much enjoyed today by children of all ages. Mary discovers a Secret Garden and in time both are transformed by the encounter. Read more about the novel, and the author, here: https://en.wikipedia...