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Lafcadio Hearn


Lafcadio Hearn, born 1850 in Greece, went to Japan when he was 40 years old and became a Japanese citizen only 6 years later. His writings a…

The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter

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Henry Murger and Henri Murger


As much as any other work of literature, Henri Murger’s 1851 collection of witty sketches Scènes de la vie de bohème shaped th…

Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Daniel Defoe


Mary Godolphin was the pseudonym of Lucy Aikin who undertook translating great literature into single-syllable words so that young readers c…

Från barnaår till silfverhår. Första afdelningen

Read by Måns Broo


Anders Ramsay


"Från barnaår till silfverhår" (From childyears to silverhairs) by Anders Ramsay (1832-1910) is one of the most …

The Kobzar of the Ukraine

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Taras Shevchenko


In these poems speaks the struggling soul of a downtrodden people. To our western folk, reared in happier surroundings there is a bitter tan…

The Red and the Black

Read by Peter Dann


Stendhal


It is a brave author indeed who gives his hero as many flaws as Stendhal bestows upon young Julien Sorel, an ambitious young carpenter's son…

Small Souls

Read by Phil Benson


Louis Couperus


Constance van der Welcke returns to the Hague and the bosom of her family after a twenty year exile caused by a marital indiscretion and div…

Poetry Everywhere

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W. S. Gilbert


Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as t…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 077

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Various


Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. President Theodore Roosevelt, in a 1903 speech, declared that "The future welfare …

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 085

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Various


"A regard for decency, even at the cost of success, is but the regard for one's own dignity" was novelist Joseph Conrad's take on …

James Joyce and Me


RTÉ Radio 1


James Joyce and Me   Presented by Professor Declan Kiberd A six-part series of programmes where presenter Professor Declan Kiberd will …

Chekhov In Siberia


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Chekhov In Siberia Devised and Performed  by Michael Pennington Chekhov regarded literature as his mistress and medicine as his legal w…

Michael Frayn Clouds



Michael Frayn - Clouds "They're all the same these places... guided tour of collective farms, National folk-dance company, Kindergarten…

Sarah Wooley Festival



Afternoon Drama: Festival First broadcast: Tue 31st Jul 2018, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM By Sarah Wooley A comedy dram…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102

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Various


"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…

Southern OTR Comfort


MPDMedia


Southern OTR Comfort For some reason, there was little representation of the American South in old-time-radio, beyond weekly doses of bandle…

Interviews of Joe Hehn


The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection


Joe Hehn was fascinated by radio from his childhood throughout his adult life. He loved the juvenile serials, especially, and planned a rese…

OTRR Frontier Gentleman Singles



FRONTIER GENTLEMAN B. J. George “Herewith an Englishman’s account of life and death in the West. As a reporter for the London Times , he wri…

The Canadians of Old

Read by Bruce Pirie


Philippe Aubert De Gaspé


In his mid-70s, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé took on the project of recording the culture and heritage of French Canada, especially that …

Paul Clifford

Read by Jim Locke


Edward Bulwer-Lytton


Most men who with some earnestness of mind examine into the mysteries of our social state will perhaps pass through that stage of self-educa…

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