Audibly Speaking: Listening to History

Audibly Speaking: Listening to History


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NEW! “The Five Orange Pips,” A Sherlock Holmes Story, read by Rick Reiman
June 01, 2022

Once again, as in “A Study in Scarlett,” Arthur Conan Doyle reaches across the pond for material for a Sherlock Holmes story. In this case, it is a short story, about the long reach of the past and th

NEW! “The Final Problem,” A Sherlock Holmes Story by Arthur Conan Doyle
May 29, 2022

Read by Rick Reiman, this was Doyle’s anticipated ending to the Sherlock Holmes story, the story that would “finish” Holmes off in the early 1890s, and leave Doyle free to write about other characters

NEW! “The Bruce-Partington Plans,” a Sherlock Holmes Story by Arthur Conan Doyle
May 24, 2022

Read for you by Rick Reiman Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes’s Older Brother, who “is” the British Government in the case of the Bruce-Partington Plans

NEW! “The Reigate Squires,” A Sherlock Holmes mystery, read by Rick Reiman
May 17, 2022

“I think that we are both agreed, Inspector that the fragment of paper in the dead man’s hand, bearing, as it does, the very hour of his death written upon it, is of extreme importance.” -Sherlock Hol

“Six ‘Shots’ in Dallas: ‘Framing’ the Perpetrator of the Kennedy Assassination through the Zapruder Film, 1963-2013,” Part 1 of 3, Read by the Author
May 10, 2022

Richard A. Reiman, host of AudiblySpeaking and author of the article above, narrated this article, published in The Journal of Perpetrator Research, 2(2), 2019, 180-226,  and available as a Create Com

NEW! The “Gloria Scott,” A Sherlock Holmes Short Story by Arthur Conan Doyle
May 02, 2022

In “The Gloria Scott,” Conan Doyle, through the agency of Sherlock Holmes, explains how Holmes stumbled upon his first case. It is an adventure of characters high and low, and  action turbulent and vi

NEW! The ANNOTATED “Adventures of Silver Blaze,” A Sherlock Holmes Story
April 21, 2022

In this episode, I both read and annotate Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Adventures of Silver Blaze.” Elsewhere on this site, I have a narration with no paused for annotations. In this new version on this