Audibly Speaking: Listening to History

Audibly Speaking: Listening to History


Latest Episodes

“What the Dickens” is “A Tale of Two Cities” All About? Hear the In’s and Out’s Here!
April 16, 2023

Here is my take on one of the most famous novels of all time, A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens. Why is it so great? What the dickens was Dickens up to when he wrote it? And what should be

Puzzle Pieces, Episode 2: The Warren Commission as History
April 14, 2023

In this, our second episode of Puzzle Pieces, in which we examine a separate mystery in American history, we look at the weaknesses of the Warren Commissions efforts in 1964. This first investigati

Audio Narration of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes Short Story, “The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb”
April 03, 2023

Your host, Rick Reiman, narrates The Adventure of the Engineers Thumb, by Arthur Conan Doyle. This is rather one of the more graphic of the Sherlock Holmes tales, not for the faint of heart. But it

Puzzle Pieces: How Historians Work, Episode 1: “Today is the 60th Anniversary of the Backyard Photographs in the JFK Assassination”
March 30, 2023

This is your host on Audibly Speaking, Rick Reiman. Today, March 31, 2023, is the 60th anniversary of the taking of the famous backyard photographs of Lee Harvey Oswald, holding the rifle he would l

New! Audio Narration of “The Boscombe Valley Mystery,” A Sherlock Holmes Short Story
March 27, 2023

Your host on this podcast, Audibly Speaking, Rick Reiman, narrates this classic by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. That master of all detectives in literature, Sherlock Holmes, has once again to deal with t

Sounding Out! “Six ‘Shots”in Dallas: ‘Framing’ the Perpetrator of the Kennedy Assassination through the Zapruder Film, 1963-2013:” Read by the Author
March 12, 2023

In this unabridged audio narration, I read my article for The Journal of Perpetrator Research (2019) Vol: 2 Issue: 2. There were only three actual shots in Dealey Plaza on that dark day, of course.

“The Riddle of Lee Harvey Oswald,” My Book Review on This Month’s Washington Decoded (www.washingtondecoded.com)
February 14, 2023

This is my audio narration of my book review of Paul R. Gregorys The Oswalds: An Untold Account of Marina and Lee, a newly published account of Gregorys brush with Lee and Marina Oswald in 1962, a y

The New “Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle,” a Sherlock Holmes Story
February 08, 2023

Here is my audio narration of Arthur Conan Doyles Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle. This is Doyles Dickensian Christmas time story, one of many in which Holmes at first believes no crime has occurr

The Enhanced “Adventure of the Golden Pence-Nez,” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
January 24, 2023

Join Holmes and Watson, and a sound show of horses hooves, Watson typing, and a crackling fire on a stormy night in Baker Street, as Holmes and Watson embark on one of their creepiest mysteries of the

Is There Such a Thing as “Collective Memory?” Presenting a Summary of “Reframing Memory,” The Classic Affirmative Response
January 24, 2023

In 2006, Prof. Aleida Assmann, the premier authority in the field of Cultural Memory, explained how memory works at different levels and in different formats. Here is a summary of her 2006 article, R