Audibly Speaking: Listening to History

Audibly Speaking: Listening to History


Latest Episodes

New! Audio Narration of the Sherlock Holmes Short Story, “The Resident Patient,” by Arthur Conan Doyle
July 22, 2023

A Russian Count and his mysterious son make an appointment with a doctor to examine the Count for catalepsy. Catalepsy being the doctors speciality, it makes sense. But the resident patient who liv

NEW! An Audio Narration of Conan Doyle’s “The Stockbroker’s Clerk,” a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
July 09, 2023

Your audio narrator, Rick Reiman, takes you from London to the English Midlands, as we journey with Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson and the stockbrokers clerk, in quest of the solution to a mystery and

Reflection on “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” and the Raiders of Memory in our MAGA Moment
July 03, 2023

Movies may entertain us, but they also reflect our innermost thoughts and feelings in the time in which we make and watch them. Here I, a Professor of History, reflect on how the themes in the new mov

NEW!! “The United States versus Donald J. Trump,” Federal Indictment of the Department of Justice, on Audio
June 12, 2023

I narrate the watershed indictment, the first federal prosecution of a former President of the United States in American history. Every American should read this document to understand and appreciate

NEW! Rick Reiman Narrates the Sherlock Holmes Story, “The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax,” by Arthur Conan Doyle
June 03, 2023

The odyssey is almost complete: Virtually the entire canon of Sherlock Holmes stories by Conan Doyle have now been recorded, available free to the public, by the work and from the voice of audio narra

The COMPLETE Audio narration of the Sherlock Holmes Story, “The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter”
June 02, 2023

You listened to the sneak preview of this Arthur Conan Doyle classic a few days ago. Now here is the complete recording to enjoy.

Sneak Preview of Sherlock Holmes in “The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter,” by Arthur Conan Doyle
May 30, 2023

Other than horse-racing, this is is the only Sherlock Holmes story featuring sports. In this case it is a missing football player, not a race horse, that confounds Holmes. Listen to this preview now.

NEW! Audio narration of “The Adventures of the Six Napoleons,” a Sherlock Holmes Story by Arthur Conan Doyle
May 14, 2023

Inspector Lastrade of Scotland Yard informs Holmes that someone is robbing peoples houses of their busts of Napoleon and smashing them to bits in situ or a little distance away. What can be the meani

Audio Narration of the Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes Short Story, “The Adventure of Black Peter”
May 08, 2023

Peter Carey, an English Sea Captain, with the reputation of being tyrannical and hard-hearted, is given the name Black Peter before he is killed by an unknown visitor to his home. Sherlock Holmes mu

Audio Narration of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes Short Story, “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches”
April 19, 2023

The Adventure of the Copper Beeches was the last short story published in Conan Doyles first book-length collection of short stories, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892). It does not follow th