Episode 171, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Part 8 of 9, by Baroness Orczy
A 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...
View ArticleEpisode 172, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Part 9 of 9, by Baroness Orczy
The grand finale of the epic adventure: The Scarlet Pimpernel. Today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.
View ArticleEpisode 173, The Man From Snowy River, by Banjo Paterson
Adventure 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...
View ArticleEpisode 174, Jeeves and the Chump Cyril, by P.G. Wodehouse
Aunt 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...
View ArticleEpisode 175, The Queer Feet, by G.K. Chesterton
A 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...
View ArticleEpisode 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,...
View ArticleEpisode 177, The Sensational Baron Munchausen, by Rudolph E. Raspe
Surprising, 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...
View ArticleEpisode 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....
View ArticleEpisode 179, Youth, Part 2 of 2, by Joseph Conrad
Marlowe 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...
View ArticleEpisode 180, The Turn of the Screw, Part 1 of 4, by Henry James
A 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...
View ArticleEpisode 181, The Turn of the Screw, Part 2 of 4, by Henry James
The 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...
View ArticleEpisode 182, The Turn of the Screw, Part 3 of 4, by Henry James
Tensions 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...
View ArticleEpisode 183, The Turn of the Screw, Part 4 of 4, by Henry James
The battle for the children comes to a grim conclusion. Who will win the hearts of the children, the nave country governess, or the malignant specters from beyond the grave? Henry James, today, on The...
View ArticleEpisode 184, Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving
Rip 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...
View ArticleEpisode 185, Dr. Ox's Experiment, Pt 1 of 2, by Jules Verne
The 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...
View ArticleEpisode 186, Dr. Ox's Experiment, Pt 2 of 2, by Jules Verne
The 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...
View ArticleEpisode 186, The Horror of the Heights, by Arthur Conan Doyle
A 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...
View ArticleEpisode 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....
View ArticleEpisode 188, The Flying Stars, by G.K. Chesterton
The 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...
View ArticleEpisode 190, Where Love Is, God Is, Part Two, by Leo Tolstoy
Martin is visited by three strangers, each piecing together the mystery of his mysterious dream. Leo Tolstoy, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast
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