Episodes

  • Book of The Week - The Truth about Poultry

    Book of The Week - The Truth about Poultry
    Mar 14 2026
    Exposing all you need to know about poultry. All of it. ALL.

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    1 min
  • Book of Week - George R Scott - The Art of Faking Exhibition Poultry

    Book of Week - George R Scott - The Art of Faking Exhibition Poultry
    Mar 7 2026
    This antique text contains a treatise on the various methods and techniques employed for the faking of poultry for show and exhibition purposes, written with the aim of aiding judges of such competitions in the identification of fakes. A fascinating insight into this curious practice, this text will be of much value to those interested in the subject and would make for a interesting addition to collections of antique poultry literature. The chapters of this book include: Faking and its Problems, The Psychology of Faking, Modern Tendencies in Faking, The Detection of Faking, The Techniques of Faking, Dying Plumage, Bleaching Plumage, Faking Leg Colour, Inserting and Extracting Feathers, Faking Lobes, Colouring Eggs, Dyes Employed, Chemicals Used in Faking, etcetera. We are proud to republish this antique book now complete with a new introduction on the subject.

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    3 mins
  • Frederick Marryat - The Werewolf

    Frederick Marryat - The Werewolf
    Mar 5 2026
    "The Werewolf," a short story extracted from Frederick Marryat's novel The Phantom Ship (1839) . Reprinted many times since, often under alternative title of "The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains," the tale chronicles the misfortunes of Krantz, A Hungarian nobleman's steward, who flees from Transylvania with his three children after murdering his unfaithful wife and lover.

    Captain Frederick Marryat was a Royal Navy officer and novelist. He is noted today as an early pioneer of nautical fiction, particularly for his semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836). He is remembered also for his children's novel The Children of the New Forest (1847).

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    44 mins
  • Robert Aickman - The Cicerones

    Robert Aickman - The Cicerones
    Mar 3 2026
    A tourist, a Cathedral, a crypt. What could go wrong?

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    25 mins
  • The Whole Thing - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

    The Whole Thing - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
    Feb 28 2026
    This is the whole file, the whole book in one, four hour marathon.

    Enjoy.

    The Great Gatsby is a 1925 tragedy novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire obsessed with reuniting with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922.

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    4 hrs and 19 mins
  • V.S. Pritchett - A story of Don Juan

    V.S. Pritchett - A story of Don Juan
    Feb 19 2026
    Don Juan, the legendary lover, stays at a lonely widowers house and...

    Don Juan, also known as Don Giovanni, is a legendary fictional Spanish libertine who devotes his life to seducing women. The original version of the story of Don Juan appears in the 1630 play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra by Tirso de Molina. The play includes most of the elements found and later adapted in subsequent works, including the setting, the characters, moralistic themes, and the dramatic ending in which Don Juan dines with and is then dragged down to hell by the stone statue of the father he had previously slain.

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    12 mins
  • Arthur Gray - The True History of Anthony Ffryar

    Arthur Gray - The True History of Anthony Ffryar
    Feb 17 2026
    Arthur Gray - The True History of Anthony Ffryar

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    16 mins
  • 3 Books of the Week

    3 Books of the Week
    Feb 14 2026
    Three books. THREE of them

    I am truely the reader of the titles.

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    3 mins