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The Invisible Man by H G Wells
Monday, October 14 through Friday, November 1, 2024
Read by Jim Fleming
Setting the mood for Halloween, it’s HG Wells’ science fiction/horror classic! A strange man comes to stay at the “Coach and Horses” in Iping. The man is covered in bandages. The owner of the establishment, a Mrs. Hall, assumes the man was in an accident and is horribly disfigured and ashamed. But the bandages are hiding something much more sinister.
“Gnomus”, “Catacombes”, and “Con mortuis in lingua mortua” from Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Seiji Ozawa & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Latest Episodes
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The Invisible Man 12 of 15 – The Costume Shop
Griffin continues his story. After leaving the department store without securing clothing or food, Griffin plans to go to a costume shop, find a wig, nose, spectacles and clothing to […]
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The Invisible Man 11 of 15 – No One Can See You When You’re Invisible
Griffin continues to tell Kemp about his first moments of becoming invisible. It turns out that it is not the intoxicating experience that he expected. In the city crowd, he […]
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The Invisible Man 10 of 15 – Invisibility Obtained
LISTENER ADVISORY: Experiments on Animals Griffin describes the questionable experiments he performed on an old woman’s cat in his quest to conquer invisibility. He explains that when the experiments lead […]
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The Invisible Man 9 of 15 – Becoming Invisible
While Griffin sleeps, Dr. Kemp finds a local paper and learns the real truth about Griffin and what occurred in Iping. Later, as Griffin eats breakfast, he tells Kemp how […]
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The Invisible Man 8 of 15 – Dr. Kemp Learns The Awful Truth
After being shot during an incident at the pub, the Invisible Man hides himself in the home of a Dr. Kemp, who, it turns out, attended university with the Invisible […]
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The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two by Studs Terkel
Monday, November 4 through Friday, November 15, 2024
Read by karl schmidt
“The Good War” is a testament not only to the experience of war but to the extraordinary skill of Studs Terkel as an interviewer and oral historian. From a pipe fitter’s apprentice at Pearl Harbor to a crew member of the flight that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, his subjects are open and unrelenting in their analyses of themselves and their experiences.
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