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Episode 204, Jeeves Takes Charge, by P.G. Wodehouse Bertie's uncle has written a saucy memoir about his scandalous exploits as a young man. That's all fine and good, but this quaint little memoir absolutely vilifies Bertie's future father in law. Well Bertie's fiancŽe won't have it. The manuscript must be stolen and destroyed. It soon becomes evident to Bertie that the only way out is for Jeeves to take charge. P.G. Wodehouse, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 203, The Black Cat, by Edgar Allan PoeA convicted man tells of his descent into dissipation. For his love of animals, once his greatest comfort, proves to be his ultimate undoing. Edgar Allen Poe, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 202, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, Part 2 of 2, by Oscar WildeLord Arthur's attempt at murder fails. He is very downhearted. It seems that no matter what he tries, his life is absolutely blighted until he can commit just one simple murder. Even the German bomb makers let him down. But one night, while brooding in the small hours, he has a fabulous idea. Oscar Wilde, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.
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Episode 201, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, Part 1 of 2, by Oscar WildeLord Arthur Savile leads a charming life. He is rich, engaged to a gem of a girl, and moves in the highest society. But when an oily voiced palm reader reveals his fortune, it strikes him to the marrow and sinews. He knows now that before he enjoys all the happiness of matrimony, there is one thing he absolutely must do - murder.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 200, The Raven and other poems, by Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven and other select poems from the great Edgar Allan Poe. Today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.
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This week we celebrate the 200th episode of The Classic Tales Podcast. For the past 3 1/2 years, The Classic Tales Podcast has been making classic literature accessible and approachable. For the past 200 weeks, we have enjoyed an incredible variety of authors: from William Shakesp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 199, The Affair at Styles, Part 8 of 8Poirot painstakingly sifts through the facts, revealing the true murderer. Agatha Christie - today on The Classic Tales Podcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 198, The Affair at Styles, Part 7of8The scandalous arrest has been made, but it isn't clear that the nefarious perpetrator will be convicted. Even the famous Hercule Poirot admits that he hasn't a shred of evidence. And if a great breakthrough is not reached, the murderer may go free. Agatha Christie - today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 197, The Affair at Styles, Pt6of8, by Agatha ChristieTwo persons are arrested. The strange thing is - they both seem to be guilty. Agatha Christie, today, on The Classic Tales PodcastListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 196, The Affair at Styles, Part 5 of 8, by Agatha ChristieThe noose seems to be tightening around the neck of Mr. Inglethorp. Inspectors from Scotland Yard have even been notified, and they are circling around their prey. That is, until Poirot reveals an astounding secret, and suggestions that nobody dared entertain begin to creep out of their hidden corners. Agatha Christie - today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 196, The Affair at Styles, Part 5 of 8, by Agatha ChristieThe noose seems to be tightening around the neck of Mr. Inglethorp. Inspectors from Scotland Yard have even been notified, and they are circling around their prey. That is, until Poirot reveals an astounding secret, and suggestions that nobody dared entertain begin to creep out of their hidden corners. Agatha Christie - today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 195, The Affair at Styles, Part 4 of 8, by Agatha ChristieThe inquest begins. And it seems that Mr. Inglethorp, the man nobody likes, and everyone suspects, is determined to hang himself. This suits everyone just fine - except Hercule Poirot. Agatha Christie - today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 195, The Affair at Styles, Part 4 of 8, by Agatha ChristieThe inquest begins. And it seems that Mr. Inglethorp, the man nobody likes, and everyone suspects, is determined to hang himself. This suits everyone just fine - except Hercule Poirot. Agatha Christie - today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 194, The Affair at Styles, Part 3 of 8, by Agatha ChristieWas Mrs. Inglethorp suffering a mental breakdown? Had she some deluded fancy of demoniacal possession? Hercule Poirot uncovers an incespensible clue, as the mystery continues. Agatha Christie - today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 194, The Affair at Styles, Part 3 of 8, by Agatha ChristieWas Mrs. Inglethorp suffering a mental breakdown? Had she some deluded fancy of demoniacal possession? Hercule Poirot uncovers an incespensible clue, as the mystery continues. Agatha Christie - today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 191, The Affair at Styles, Part 2 of 8, by Agatha ChristieTragedy strikes at the estate at Styles. Mrs. Inglethorp dies from what appears to be strychnine poisoning. The funny little Belgian, Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate, though he appears to disregard every bit of damaging evidence. Has the great detective lost his touch? Agatha Christie - today, on The Classic Tales PodcastListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 193, The Affair at Styles, Part 2 of 8, by Agatha ChristieTragedy strikes at the estate at Styles. Mrs. Inglethorp dies from what appears to be strychnine poisoning. The funny little Belgian, Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate, though he appears to disregard every bit of damaging evidence. Has the great detective lost his touch? Agatha Christie - today, on The Classic Tales PodcastListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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Episode 192.5, The Man in the Iron Mask PreviewThe first issue in the Classic Novels Podcast 2011 is now available!
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Episode 192, The Affair at Styles, Part 1 of 8, by Agatha ChristieThe first in an eight part miniseries from the most widely published author of all time. Agatha Christie introduces the world to Hercule Poirot. Join us as we discover the very first tale of our favorite Belgian dandy - today, on The Classic Tales PodcastListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 192, The Affair at Styles, Part 1 of 8, by Agatha ChristieThe first in an eight part miniseries from the most widely published author of all time. Agatha Christie introduces the world to Hercule Poirot. Join us as we discover the very first tale of our favorite Belgian dandy - today, on The Classic Tales PodcastListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 191, Death at the Excelsior, by P.G. WodehouseInside a quiet boarding house on the waterfront, a man stares up to the ceiling with sightless eyes. The tight lipped landlady proclaims that it is murder. Can an upscale detective agency penetrate to the bottom of the mystery? Find out how mystery is done by the irrepressible P.G. Wodehouse - today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 190, Where Love Is, God Is, Part Two, by Leo TolstoyMartin is visited by three strangers, each piecing together the mystery of his mysterious dream. Leo Tolstoy, today, on The Classic Tales PodcastListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 189, Where Love Is, God Is, Part One, by Leo TolstoyMartin is an old cobbler with a good trade, but has had a hard life. His soul is now embittered against God. When he hears a mysterious voice calling him in the middle of the night, his soul seems to lighten and awake to answer the call. Leo Tolstoy, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 188, The Flying Stars, by G.K. ChestertonThe Flying Stars are missing. Three brilliant diamonds, whose fame has spread throughout England, have been purloined during an innocent Christmas pantomime. Can Father Brown discover the culprit before the curtain falls? G.K. Chesterton, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 187, Behind the White Brick, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Shortly after a horrible scolding by her aunt, Jem stares moodily into the fire. Suddenly, she notices that a bit of soot has fallen from the side of the chimney, revealing an incredibly white brick. Before she knows it, Jem finds herself on an imaginative journey where toys can talk, babies do the scolding, and Santa Claus shows you his wonderful workshop. Frances Hodgson Burnett, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.
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Episode 186, The Horror of the Heights, by Arthur Conan DoyleA zealous aviator penetrates the highest strata of our atmosphere, and discovers a groundbreaking new form of life. And yet he knows that this strange alien life form has claimed the lives of two aviators before him, and it may claim his own. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 186, Dr. Ox's Experiment, Pt 2 of 2, by Jules VerneThe mysterious epidemic intensifies. Now the once quiet Quiquendonians are not only squabbling unrelentlessly with each other. Their minds are bent upon war. How will Dr. Ox's diabolical experiment end? Jules Verne, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 185, Dr. Ox's Experiment, Pt 1 of 2, by Jules VerneThe quiet community of Quiquendone can't be found on any map. Here there is no crime, no raised voices, no conflict of any kind. And when the enigmatic Dr. Ox ventures into the town, and proposes to light the town with a mysterious gas, the town elders applaud the proposal. But soon it becomes evident that the secret gas feeds on a different sort of combustion. Jules Verne, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 184, Rip Van Winkle, by Washington IrvingRip Van Winkle lived in a quiet colonial town, and had a habit of attending to everyone else's chores. Henpecked and poor, he goes squirrel hunting in the woods one day, only to exit twenty years later. Washington Irving today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 183, The Turn of the Screw, Part 4 of 4, by Henry JamesThe battle for the children comes to a grim conclusion. Who will win the hearts of the children, the na•ve country governess, or the malignant specters from beyond the grave? Henry James, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 182, The Turn of the Screw, Part 3 of 4, by Henry JamesTensions mount in the remote country estate. Malignant spirits continue to appear, and Miles begins to demonstrate his keen, penetrating mind. Can these spirits give the children a dark, supernatural source of power? Henry James, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 181, The Turn of the Screw, Part 2 of 4, by Henry JamesThe haunting of the estate at Bly continues, and a horrible revelation makes itself evident. The children know of the two revenant spirits. And what's worse, when the ghosts return and speak to the young ones, they don't seem to mind it. Henry James, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast. Get your free audiobook by going to: www.audiblepodcast.com/classictalesListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 180, The Turn of the Screw, Part 1 of 4, by Henry JamesA country governess is hired to raise two orphaned children in a lonely estate in Essex. But a dark mystery surrounds the house, the grounds, and the children. Haunting questions arise, and Henry James pens one of the most famous American ghost stories. The Turn of The Screw, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.
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Episode 179, Youth, Part 2 of 2, by Joseph ConradMarlowe concludes the tale of his youth, before he ventured into the Heart of Darkness. Last week we discovered that all the rats were abandoning ship before they had even left the dockyard. It isn't until Marlowe and his crew is halfway to Singapore that they find out why. Joseph Conrad - today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 178, Youth, Part 1 of 2, by Joseph Conrad
Marlowe tells of a story of his youth, before he ventured into the Heart of Darkness. As second officer, he narrates his adventures as second mate in a barque determined to cut its way to Bangkok. Joseph Conrad - today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.
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Episode 177, The Sensational Baron Munchausen, by Rudolph E. RaspeSurprising, sensational, inexorable. These are the adventures of Baron Munchausen. See him escape from the jaws of a hungry lion, shoot a stag with cherry stones, climb a beanstalk to the moon and many other fantastical fables. Each tale is taller than the last, as we enter the world of Baron Munchausen - today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 176, The Bet, by Anton Chekhov
Many say that capital punishment is inhumane. But is it, in fact, more humane to take away life in one swift stroke, rather than condemn an individual to a lifetime in captivity? Two men place wagers, each backing a different side of the argument. After 15 years, this clumsy bet irrevocably changes their lives forever. Anton Chekhov today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.
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Episode 175, The Queer Feet, by G.K. ChestertonA man has died. But there's really no mystery in that. His heart failed, that's all. But when Father Brown goes into a private room to write down the man's final confession, he is distracted by the strange way in which someone is walking outside his door. From the gait of the queer feet, he discovers that a nefarious plot is most definitely afoot. G.K. Chesterton, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.
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Episode 174, Jeeves and the Chump Cyril, by P.G. WodehouseAunt Agatha breaks her icy silence, and asks Bertie to look after a fellow Englishman, Cyril, who is visiting in New York. She only has one stipulation: keep Cyril off the American stage. But by the time Bertie gets the imperiling word, Cyril lands a part in a musical comedy. And with Jeeves turning a bit of a cold shoulder after a bust up over some purple socks, what's a Wooster to do? P.G. Wodehouse, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 173, The Man From Snowy River, by Banjo PatersonAdventure from the Australian Outback. Cowboy style poetry from Australia's Banjo Paterson. Today, on The Classic Tales Podcast. This episode contains 4 poems: The Man from Snowy River, Old Pardon, the Son of Reprieve, Clancy of the Overflow, and Conroy's Gap.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 172, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Part 9 of 9, by Baroness OrczyThe grand finale of the epic adventure: The Scarlet Pimpernel. Today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 171, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Part 8 of 9, by Baroness OrczyA dragnet is created for the Scarlet Pimpernel. Chauvelin knows what he looks like, where he is going, and what he will do when he gets there. How will he escape? Find out today, on The Classic Tales Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 169.5, Eclipse of the Crescent Moon sample, by Geza Gardonyi
In 1541,the crown of Hungary is up for grabs. King John, seeing that the Austrians were attacking with an innumerable force, petitions the Turks for assistance. King John then dies, leaving an infant son. While the Turkish army is en route, the Hungarians rally their forces, and beat back the Austrians themselves. Then, just as the Austrians beat their final retreat, the main Turkish army arrives at the castle in Buda. And among their number is the sultan himself.
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Episode 170, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Part 7 of 9, by Baroness OrczyThe Scarlet Pimpernel is on French soil. His deadly enemy, Chauvelin, approaches on the sea. Two friends have only one hour to warn The Pimpernel of his danger. The result is an unexpected battle of wits between The Scarlet Pimpernel and his deadly arch enemy. Baroness Orczy, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 169, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Part 6 of 9, by Baroness OrczyMarguerite has one blessed moment when she feels that all is well. But once things begin to piece themselves together, the true horror of what she has done racks her soul with terror. Baroness Orczy, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 168, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Part 5 of 9, by Baroness OrczyPercy and Marguerite hold a midnight tete-a-tete, and doors long closed are flung wide open. Is Percy man enough to help his wife in her hour of need? What kind of a man is he, really? Baroness Orczy, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 167, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Part 4 of 9, by Baroness OrczyMarguerite gives the performance of her life at Lord Grenville's ball. For while she dances and fulfills her part as the most fashionable woman in England, her mind is racked with furious doubts. She must sacrifice either the life of her beloved brother, or betray the identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Baroness Orczy, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 166, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Part 3 of 9, by Baroness OrczyChauvelin makes a diabolical proposition to Marguerite. She laughs off his proposal as if it were so much of a good joke. But when certain secret documents fall into the spidery hands of Chauvelin, Marguerite finds that spying in the name of France is no laughing matter. Baroness Orczy, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 165, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Part 2 of 9, by Baroness OrczyMarguerite Blakeney is known as the cleverest woman in Europe. She is the unprecedented leader of fashion in London. And yet, there are whispers that follow in her magnificent train. Did she really send a family to certain death on the stoop of the guillotine? Find out, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | |