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Just Reads

Reads of classic stories, Occasionally reviews or brief biography of writers. But mostly me, reading stories.Remember: There are small booksellters who will usually be able to fulfill your order cheaper and with more care than Amazon.abebooks.co.uk is recommended.It would be nice if people could click "like". It costs nothing and makes an old man happy.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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43:09

About Writers - The Life and Works of Charles Dickens

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2025/05/07

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 CONTENTSExcerpt - The Life and Times of David CopperfieldClipsHard Times - Granada Television 1977 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbDhtkwoDHgOliver! (1968) - Please Sir, I

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29:34

Algernon Blackwood - Keeping His Promise

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2025/05/06

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.Become a supporter of this podcast:

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9:36

Saturday Night Serial - The Time Machine by H.G....

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2025/05/03

Episode One: IntroductionThe 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

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25:57

E & H Heron - The Story of Baelbrow

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2025/05/01

The spirit of Baelbrow was a inoffensive and unintrusive ghost. But something changed. And not for the better.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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14:37

Grimm Brothers - The Juniper Tree

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2025/03/29

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

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8:41

James Thurber - The MacBeth Murder Mystery

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2025/03/28

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 MittyHis 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.Become a

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7:37

JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

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2025/03/27

Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters—shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends. The city is beautiful and terrible, in all its neon loneliness and seedy glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really

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15:36

Grimm Stories - Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

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2025/03/23

"Snow White" is a German fairy tale, first written down in the early 19th century. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection Grimms' Fairy Tales, numbered as Tale 53. The original title was Sneewittchen, which is a partial translation from Low German. The modern spelling is Schneewittchen. The Grimms completed their final revision of the story in 1854, which can be found in the 1857 version of Grimms' Fairy Tales.The fairy tale features elements such as the

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25:27

M.R. James - The Haunted Dolls House

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2025/03/07

"The Haunted Doll's House" is a 1923 short story by M. R. James, collected by him in A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories. It was commissioned by Queen Mary, wife of George V, as a miniature book for her famous Dolls' House, which can still be seen in Windsor Castle. It is in many ways a typical James story, thematically linked to other works of his, especially "The Mezzotint"Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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1:48

Answer by Fredric Brown (1954)

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2025/03/06

Dwan Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the subether bore throughout the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing.He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, then moved to a position beside the switch that would complete the contact when he threw it. The switch that would connect, all at once, all of the monster computing machines of all the populated planets in the universe -- ninety-six billion planets -- into the

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5:21

Bros Grimm - The Golden Goose

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2025/03/05

The hero is the youngest of three brothers, given the nickname "Dummling" (Simpleton). His eldest brother is sent into the forest to chop wood (the Task), fortified with a rich cake and a bottle of wine. He meets a little gray man (the Disguised Helper) who begs a morsel to eat and a drop to drink but is rebuffed. The eldest brother meets an accident and is taken home. The second brother meets a similar fate. Dummling, sent out with a biscuit cooked in the ashes of the hearth and soured beer, is

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6:09

Adam Blai - The Exorcism Files

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2025/03/04

Drawing from his extensive experience in assisting with cases of demonic oppression and possession, in The Exorcism Files, Adam Blai presents listeners with enlightening true stories and traces their causation. Whether people provided a gateway through Ouija boards or tarot cards, Blai reports from firsthand observation how they were lured into the occult.Blai also recounts shocking cases of participation in covens and cults under the guise of knowledge, empowerment, and liberation. This is

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9:31

Edgar Allen Poe - The Sphinx

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2025/03/03

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.

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4:01

Duncan Black and Iain Dale - Prime Minister Boris

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2025/02/27

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 and special advisers, consider how things might have turned out differently throughout a century of

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7:19

Grimm Brothers - The Robber Bridegroom

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2025/02/26

"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.

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5:53

Barry Cryer - Pigs can Fly

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2025/02/25

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 in their show 'Two Old Farts in the Night', and is a panellist on 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue'.This is

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4:39

The Brothers Grimm - The Seven Ravens

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2025/02/10

"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 feature film The Seven Ravens adapts the fairy tale.The tale was published by the Brothers Grimm in the first

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14:45

Brothers Grimm - Hansel and Gretel

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2025/01/28

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.

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Garry Shandling - Larry Sanders - The Autobiography...

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2025/01/21

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.BookBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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H.G. Wells - The Truth about Pyecraft

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2025/01/14

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 thisIt's H.G. Wells 'The Truth About Pyecraft'.Enjoy.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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