Episodios

  • Saturday Night Serial - H.G. Wells - The Time Machine Chapter 2 - The Machine

    Saturday Night Serial - H.G. Wells - The Time Machine Chapter 2 - The Machine
    May 10 2025
    The second intallment of HG Wells classic story, The Time Machine.

    Part one here

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    8 m
  • Phillip K Dick- The Eyes Have It

    Phillip K Dick- The Eyes Have It
    May 8 2025
    Theoretically, you could find this type of humor anywhere. But only a topflight science-fictionist, we thought, could have written this story, in just this way. . . . Start here: It was quite by accident I discovered this incredible invasion of Earth by lifeforms from another planet. As yet, I haven't done anything about it; I can't think of anything to do. I wrote to the Government, and they sent back a pamphlet on the repair and maintenance of frame houses. Anyhow, the whole thing is known; I'm not the first to discover it. Maybe it's even under control. "All of his work starts with the basic assumption that there cannot be one, single, objective reality", writes science fiction author Charles Platt.

    Book

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    6 m
  • About Writers - The Life and Works of Charles Dickens

    About Writers - The Life and Works of Charles Dickens
    May 7 2025
    Cnarles Dickens was one of the greatest writers of his or any other time. His works examine the human condition, and deal with lust for power, arrogrance, kindness, the cruelty and triumphs of life.

    This is a brief outline of the man, his work and why his legacy is so important.

    Copyright beling to originators for all clips used

    CONTENTS
    Excerpt - The Life and Times of David Copperfield
    Clips
    Hard Times - Granada Television 1977 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbDhtkwoDHg
    Oliver! (1968) - Please Sir, I Want Some More Scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYCu9-r6B8E
    Excerpt - Dombey and Son
    Mr Jingle is exposed in the Postumous Pickwick Papers (1985 BBC adaptation of The Pickwick Papers) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2rmh_bQd0w
    Excerpt
    David Copperfield meets Mr Macorber - The Life and Times of David Copperfield
    A christmas carol, possibly the best adaptation, with Alastair Simm as Scrooge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPceYjVQVnw
    The Old Curiosity Shop - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CSWj8fcfUE
    A full read of the short story 'The Signalman'.


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    43 m
  • Algernon Blackwood - Keeping His Promise

    Algernon Blackwood - Keeping His Promise
    May 6 2025
    A srudent recieves an unexpected visitor. A message is conveyed, a promise is kept.

    H.P. Lovecraft wrote of Blackwood: "He is the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmosphere." His powerful story "The Willows," which effectively describes another dimension impinging upon our own, was reckoned by Lovecraft to be not only "foremost of all" Blackwood's tales but the best "weird tale" of all time.

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    30 m
  • Saturday Night Serial - The Time Machine by H.G. Wells - Episode One

    Saturday Night Serial - The Time Machine by H.G. Wells - Episode One
    May 3 2025
    Episode One: Introduction

    The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device

    Episode two next Saturday night.

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    10 m
  • E & H Heron - The Story of Baelbrow

    E & H Heron - The Story of Baelbrow
    May 1 2025
    The spirit of Baelbrow was a inoffensive and unintrusive ghost. But something changed. And not for the better.

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    26 m
  • Grimm Brothers - The Juniper Tree

    Grimm Brothers - The Juniper Tree
    Mar 29 2025
    The Juniper Tree" (also "The Almond Tree"; Low German: Von dem Machandelboom) is a German fairy tale published in Low German by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1812 (KHM 47).The story contains themes of child abuse, murder, cannibalism and biblical symbolism and is one of the Brothers Grimm's darker and more mature fairy tales. The tale is of Aarne–Thompson type 720 ("The Juniper Tree"). Another such tale is the English "The Rose-Tree", although it reverses the sexes from "The Juniper Tree"; "The Juniper Tree" follows the more common pattern of having the dead child be a boy.

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    15 m
  • James Thurber - The MacBeth Murder Mystery

    James Thurber - The MacBeth Murder Mystery
    Mar 28 2025
    James Thurber is one of the funniest writers of his age, or most other age. I recommend him highly. His works are touching, nostaligic, well observed and above all, funny. He wrote the Secret Life of Walter Mitty

    His memorial is in trouble; The Thurber House is a non-profit which introduces people to his life and work. They need to raise $200,000 to keep going for another 40 years.

    Any revenue generated from these reads will go to them. Or you can donate directly through their website here.



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    9 m
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