Audibly Speaking: Listening to History

Audibly Speaking: Listening to History


Latest Episodes

NEW! A Christmas Present: My Encore Presentation of the Enhanced “Adventure of the Bruce Partington Plans,” A Sherlock Holmes Short Story
December 02, 2025

For Christmas this year, I roll out an encore presentation of my narration of Arthur Conan Doyles greatest short story, The Adventure of the Bruce Partington Plans. The English government is paral

NEw A.C. Bradley’s Classic Reflections on Tragedy in William Skakespeare, Part Two
November 25, 2025

I continue the narration of A. C. Bradleys famous lectures on the Tragedies of William Shakespeare, one of the finest in all of the critiques of these legendary plays.

NEW! Encore Recording of “The Adventure of Black Peter,” a Sherlock Holmes Mystery Short Story by Arthur Conan Doyle
November 22, 2025

In keeping with the other two encore recordings of major entries in the Sherlock Holmes canon of short stories, the Abbey Grange and the Second Stain. I narrate once again, in what I hope will be

A.C. Bradley on Shakespearean Tragedy in Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and King Lear
November 12, 2025

And now for something completely different Here is an audio introduction to the English literary critic, A.C. Bradley, and his legendary lectures on the high tragedies of William Shakespeare: the pla

NEW! New Version of “The Adventure of the Norwood Builder,” the Newest Narration of Rick Reiman
September 28, 2025

Close on the heels of the brilliant Adventure of the Abbey Grange was one of Conan Doyles masterworks, his short story, The Adventure of the Norwood Builder. Any writer who wishes to toss into th

NEW! 2025 Edition of the Greatest Sherlock Holmes Story of All, “The Adventure of the Abbey Grange”
July 18, 2025

I have had the pleasure of recording nearly all of the Sherlock Holmes short stories for this podcast, but one stands out among all the others, both as a recording effort and as a story by the great C

NEW! Franklin D. Roosevelt’s State of the Union Address to the Congress on The Four Freedoms, January 6, 1941
June 06, 2025

Here is an audio narration by Dr. Richard Reiman of this famous FDR speech.

NEW! “The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone,” A Sherlock Holmes Theatrical Drama
May 23, 2025

The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone, by Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle, was one of two stories in the canon which was told not in the voice of Dr. John Watson but in third-person. Intended as the basis of a

“NEW! “THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL,” The Final Episode of My Narrations of the Classic Sherlock Holmes Stories
May 15, 2025

Well, it has been quite an odyssey. Arthur Conan Doyles classic episodes have been narrated by readers like Stephen Fry, for a cost; and by readers like your host, for free, in the spirit of the 18t

NEW! Chapter Three of “The Great Gatsby,” Narrated by Rick Reiman!
April 15, 2025

In this year of 2025, we celebrate the centennial of F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby. I have recorded the first three chapters of the heartbreaking novel, and the latest chapter is out today!