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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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6:07

Stephen Hodge - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Essential Guide...

Just Reads ·

2025/01/09

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 in the scrolls, orthodox Judaism and the origins of Christianity - Describes the excavations of the

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5:22

Catherine Curzon - The Scandal of George III's Court

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2025/01/07

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 about the palace by candlelight, these eyebrow-raising tales from the reign of George III prove that the

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4:07

Bob Monkhouse - Book of Days

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2025/01/02

An aged compendium of events in history published in 1981 with even older jokes.BookBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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4:11

Dan Snow - On This Day In History

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2024/12/31

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 to life a key event that happened on each day of the year.From the most important British battle that

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27:16

Christmas Ghost Stories - Charles Dickens - The...

Just Reads ·

2024/12/25

"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.This is the final story for the Christmas Reads.Thank you so much for listening this year; evey Podcaster says it but it really does mean a lot.I shall see you in 2025 and

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2:58

Christmas Ghost Stories - J. K. Bangs - Ghosts that...

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2024/12/24

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-reads--6173738/support.

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31:05

Christmas Ghost Stories - R.L. Stevenson - The...

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2024/12/23

"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.

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21:55

Christmas Ghost Stories - W.W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw

Just Reads ·

2024/12/22

As one of the Christmas Ghost Stories, here is W.W.Jacobs tale of horror and fate, the Money's PawBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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23:03

Christmas Ghost Stories - M.R. James - The Mezzotint

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2024/12/21

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.

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7:48

Christmas Ghost Stories - Edgar Allan Poe - The Silence

Just Reads ·

2024/12/20

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.

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19:20

Christmas Stories - The story of the youth who went...

Just Reads ·

2024/12/20

The Grimm Brothers The story of the youth who went forth to learn what fear wasBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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6:06

Pete Sawyer (and others) - Gotcha

Just Reads ·

2024/12/19

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 tracking the culprits, playing a ruthless cat and mouse game that led him to some of London's most notorious

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6:52

Christmas Stories - Briar Rose

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2024/12/19

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.

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8:36

Christmas Stories - The Blue Light

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2024/12/18

A reading of 'The Blue Light/ Blue Lantern' by The Brothers GrimmBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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3:38

Val McDermid - Forensice - The Anatomy of Crime

Just Reads ·

2024/12/17

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 research and Val McDermid's own experience to lay bare the secrets of this fascinating science. And, along the

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5:40

Christmas Stories - The Frog Prince

Just Reads ·

2024/12/17

The classic Brothers Grimm tale of the Frog-PrinceBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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5:46

Christmas Stories - Rumpelstiltskin

Just Reads ·

2024/12/16

Over Xmas I thought I would do some reads.This is the classic Grimm story of RumpelstiltskinBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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7:48

Les Dawson - A Clown Too Many

Just Reads ·

2024/12/10

Les Dawson was many things - slum kid, soldier, boxer, insurance agent, vacuum-cleaner salesman and one of Britain's best-loved comedians. In this autobiography he tells of ten hard years in the northern clubs, of his friends, his TV career and his illness.BookBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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5:11

Fred Dinage - Reg And Ron Kray: Our Story

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2024/12/05

The Kray twins were Britain's most notorious gangsters. Ruling London's underworld for more than a decade, as gang lords they were among the most powerful and feared men in the city. Photographed by David Bailey and even interviewed for television, they became celebrities in their own right and are infamous to this day.Ronnie and Reg's reign of terror ended on 8 March 1969 when they were sentenced to life with the recommendation that they serve at least thirty years. Ronnie ended his days in

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5:03

Garth Marenghi's Terrortome

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2024/12/03

When horror writer Nick Steen gets sucked into a cursed typewriter by the terrifying Type-Face, Dark Lord of the Prolix, the hellish visions inside his head are unleashed for real. Forced to fight his escaping imagination - now leaking out of his own brain - Nick must defend the town of Stalkford from his own fictional horrors, including avascular-necrosis-obsessed serial killer Nelson Strain and Nick's dreaded throppleganger, the Dark Third.Can he and Roz, his frequently incorrect female editor,

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