Read To Me

Read To Me

A podcast of your favorite stories featuring classic tales loved by people of all ages

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September 8, 2024 41 mins

The Five Orange Pips is my latest podcast in the series of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's favourite Sherlock Holmes short stories.

The five pips, packaged in blue paper, are a death threat. The message is that the person should comply with a demand or die. 

This is one of only two Sherlock Holmes short stories where Holmes' client dies after seeking his help; the other being "The Adventure of the Dancing Men," featured in an earlier podc...

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Here is Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Empty House, my latest podcast in the series of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's favourite Sherlock Holmes short stories.

For three years, Watson believed Sherlock Holmes was dead after his fatal encounter with Professor Moriarty in The Final Problem. However, Holmes returns to England to foil a plot to murder him by a former Moriarty gang member.

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Here is The Final Problem, one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. In this episode, we are introduced to the criminal mastermind, Professor Moriarty. Holmes has discovered that nearly all crimes committed in London are the work of one gang headed by one man, Professor Moriarty, whom Holmes acknowledges as his intellectual equal. 

Up next: The Empty House. 

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Here is Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Dancing Men, the latest episode in my series of podcasts featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.  To solve this case, Holmes has to decipher the code hidden in what appears to be a child’s drawings of dancing men.

Up next: The Final Problem. 

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Here is Sherlock Holmes in A Scandal in Bohemia, the latest episode in the series of podcasts featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.  

Up next: The Adventure of the Dancing Men. 

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Et voilà, the second in a series of podcasts featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.  In this episode, I'm reading The Red-Headed League.

Up next: A Scandal in Bohemia

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Here is the first in a series of podcasts featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.  In this episode, I'm reading The Speckled Band.

Up next: The Red-Headed League. 

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Here is another bedtime story to help you fall asleep, drawn from Rudyard Kipling's "Just So Stories" that he loved to read to his daughter, Josephine. I hope you enjoy it as much as she did.  Find more of my podcasts by searching 'Doug Maybee' on Spotify, Audible, YouTube, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, IHeartRadio, and PlayerFM.

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Treat yourself to another "Read Me To Sleep" podcast. From Rudyard Kipling's "Just So Stories," this third episode is "How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin." I hope you enjoy it. Find more of my podcasts on Spotify, Audible, YouTube, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, IHeartRadio, and PlayerFM.

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Let me read you to sleep with another in the collection of Rudyard Kipling's "Just So Stories." This podcast features "How The Camel Got His Hump." Find more of my podcasts on Spotify, Audible, YouTube, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts,  IHeartRadio, and PlayerFM.

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To help you fall asleep, here is one in the collection of Rudyard Kipling's "Just So Stories," reputed to be among his best-known works. Written at the turn of the 20th century, Kipling told parts of them as bedtime stories to his daughter, Josephine. I hope you enjoy them as much as Josephine did.

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December 6, 2023 29 mins

Here is Episode 9, the final one in my podcast of The Great Gatsby. I hope you enjoy listening to this story as much as I did recording it for you. To listen to more episodes of this and other classic tales, find me on Spotify, Audible, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, YouTube, IHeartRadio, and PlayerFM.

 

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November 19, 2023 27 mins

Here is Episode 8 of The Great Gatsby. To listen to more episodes of this and other classic tales, find me on Spotify, Audible, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, YouTube, IHeartRadio, and PlayerFM.

 

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Et voilà! Here is Part 2 of Episode 7 of The Great Gatsby.

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Here is the first of two parts of Episode 7 of The Great Gatsby.  To listen to more episodes of this and other classic tales, find me on Spotify, Audible, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, YouTube, IHeartRadio, and PlayerFM.

 

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October 26, 2023 25 mins

Presenting Episode 6 of The Great Gatsby. Hope you're enjoying the story. Let me know what you think.

To listen to more episodes of this and other classic tales, find me on Spotify, Audible, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, YouTube, IHeartRadio, and PlayerFM.  

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October 19, 2023 26 mins
Here's Episode 5 of The Great Gatsby, a true literary classic that unfolds at a time when "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession" (The New York Times). To listen to more episodes of this and other classic tales, find me on Spotify, Audible, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, YouTube, IHeartRadio, and PlayerFM.  
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October 5, 2023 34 mins

For your continued listening pleasure, here is Episode 4 of The Great Gatsby, regarded as one of the best novels ever written in English. 

Going for a stroll or need some company while you work? Let me entertain you. Find me on Spotify, Audible, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, YouTube, IHeartRadio and PlayerFM.  

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September 25, 2023 37 mins

Presenting Episode 3 of the classic novel, The Great Gatsby, reputed to be one of the best ever written in English.

Take me on the road with you or for that walk in the park. I'm on Spotify, Audible, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, YouTube, IHeartRadio and PlayerFM

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September 18, 2023 26 mins

Here's Episode 2 of the timeless classic, The Great Gatsby. Hope you're enjoying the story. Please let me know

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