Audibly Speaking: Listening to History

Audibly Speaking: Listening to History


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NEW! Something Completely Different, An Abridged Version of “The Adventure of the Second Stain”
December 31, 2025

Twitter Facebook I have never recorded an abridged version of a Sherlock Holmes mystery short story, not wishing to truncate the words of the great Conan Doyle. However, it occurred to me that the time of three half-hour sitcoms may be too much for

A Tribute to Ruth Paine, 1932-2025
December 30, 2025

Twitter Facebook We lost Ruth Paine this year on August 31.  Ruth was a great lady, one of the few heroes and persons of kindness in the run-up and the aftermath of the JFK assassination.  As Thomas Mallon has noted, we know so much about

New! A New Recording of “The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton,” A Sherlock Holmes Classic
December 20, 2025

Twitter Facebook In my series of brand new readings of earlier recordings I had released in my more inexperienced narrative career, I introduce the latest of these: The Conan Doyle story. “The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton.” H

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

Twitter Facebook For Christmas this year, I roll out an encore presentation of my narration of Arthur Conan Doyle’s greatest short story, “The Adventure of the Bruce Partington Plans.”  The English government is paralyzed by f

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

Twitter Facebook I continue the narration of A. C. Bradley’s famous lectures on the Tragedies of William Shakespeare, one of the finest in all of the critiques of these legendary plays.Twitter Facebook

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

Twitter Facebook 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

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

Twitter Facebook 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 plays of Othello, Hamlet,

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

Twitter Facebook Close on the heels of the brilliant “Adventure of the Abbey Grange” was one of Conan Doyle’s masterworks, his short story, “The Adventure of the Norwood Builder.” Any writer who wishes to toss into the

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

Twitter Facebook 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 Conan Doyle. That is THIS story

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

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