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Started in 1931, “Chapter a Day” is WPR’s longest-running program. Jim Fleming, Norman Gilliland, Michele Good, Melvin Hinton, Baron Kelly and Susan Sweeney read a chapter from a book for a half hour each weekday. Genres are predominately contemporary and range from works of fiction, history and biography.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Monday, March 11 through Friday, March 22, 2024.
Read by Ken Ohst.


Venture back in time to Victorian London to join literature’s greatest detective team — the brilliant Sherlock Holmes and his devoted assistant, Dr. Watson. Ken Ohst reads this gem from the archives featuring five favorites: “The Red-Headed League”, “The Speckled Band”, “The Beryl Coronet”, “The Man With The Twisted Lip”, and “The Engineer’s Thumb”.

Theme: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Beethoven, performed by the Columbia Symphony Orchestra


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  • The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes 6 Of 10

    “The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet” Part 2. A banker has been entrusted by a person of “noble family” to care for a Beryl Coronet. In the middle of the night, the banker is awakened by the slamming of doors and discovers his son holding the coronet, now damaged and missing several gems. The son…

    The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes 6 Of 10
  • The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes 5 Of 10

    “The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet” Part 1. A banker asks Holmes to investigate after a Beryl Coronet entrusted to him is damaged at his home. Read by Ken Ohst.

    The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes 5 Of 10
  • The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes 4 Of 10

    “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” Part 2. Helen Stoner enlisted the help of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson because she is worried that her stepfather is trying to kill her. After hearing her story, Holmes decides he and Watson must go to the family’s manor, Stoke Moran, to test his theories. But before they…

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  • The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes 3 Of 10

    “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” Part 1. Helen Stoner worries that her stepfather may be trying to kill her after he contrives to move her to the bedroom where her sister had died two years earlier, shortly before her wedding. Read by Ken Ohst.

    The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes 3 Of 10
  • The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes 2 Of 10

    “The Red-Headed League” Part 2. Jabez Wilson, a pawnbroker, consults Holmes to learn why he lost his job… a job which he gained only because of the color of his hair. Holmes has just finished hearing what Wilson has to say and he and Watson are heading to St. James Hall when we pick up.…

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The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

Monday, March 25 through Friday, April 12, 2024.
Read by Norman Gilliland and Michele Good.


July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister’s disappearance for years to come. Meanwhile in Maine…

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