Episodes
THE LADY WITH THE LAMP: THE STORY OF FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE by ELMER AD…
Her name has become synonymous with saving lives and gave us the name for Nightingale helicopters that provide fast transport for emergency cases. To the soldiers of the Crimean war and many others, she was a legend. Subscribe to 1001 …
THE WRECK OF THE ROYAL CHARTER" by CHARLES DICKENS
Charles Dickens had heard the news of the wreck of the Royal Charter in Wales in October of 1859 and traveled to that area during Christmas. The salvage operation was still in progress, and the small village and the churches …
THE SHIPWRECK by CHARLES DICKENS
This story by Charles Dickens is a part of a larger story about the 1859 wreck of The Royal Charter, a steam powered clipper on its way from Australia to Liverpool, and carrying 370 passengers and a crew of 112. …
THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER by WASHINGTON IRVING
This tongue-in-cheek tale of a greedy man who makes a deal with the devil to broker a pirate's treasure by becoming a stingy moneylender is a Washington Irving classic, complete with a number of twists and lots of sardonic humor. …
THE VENDETTA by MAUPASSANT
Guy de Maupassant often dealt with horror genre stories, which earned him the nickname of the French Edgar Allen Poe. In this story, an old woman wreaks revenge upon the killer of her son. Not intended for children. May 2018 …
THE RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX
A tale of Greek mythology that tells the story of how Oedipus became the King of Thebes. Also this story first comes from Egypt, the Greek version has become the most widely known through the ages. Try to solve the …
MY RED CAP by LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
This story from American writer Louisa May Alcott recalls her personal experience with a wounded Maine veteran while was serving as a nurse in Washington D.C. during the Civil War. Alcott was a prolific writer and one of the first …
SOMEONE MUST PAY
This old tale tells of a thief, who, upon unlawfully entering a house and breaking his leg on a weak window sill while climbing in, brashly goes to court to blame his broken leg on the carpenter who built the …
THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP by BRET HARTE
In this short story by Bret Harte, first published in the August 1868 issue of Overland Monthly, a baby boy is born an orphan in a gold mining camp in California and raides by a grizzled bunch of miners. This …
A SOUND OF THUNDER by RAY BRADBURY
In this excellent sci-fi short storyby Ray Bradbury, a hunter named Eckels pays $10,000 to a time machine safari service to bag the ultimate trophy. The company guarantees his safety but not his return...and sets strict rules so as not …