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The Reading Hour

The Reading Hour

Written by: Andrew Osborn
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On The Reading Hour, a weekly radio program and podcast, I read aloud from novels, stories, essays, and poems in the public domain—works of literary accomplishment published mostly before 1930. I begin each episode with part of a long work read serially over a number of weeks. During the final twenty-minute segment, one or more shorter works are shared. Welcome!

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Episodes
  • V. Woolf, To the Lighthouse, Part 3, chs. 12 & 13; Emerson, "The Tragic," "The Senses and the Soul"

    V. Woolf, To the Lighthouse, Part 3, chs. 12 & 13; Emerson, "The Tragic," "The Senses and the Soul"
    Jan 25 2026

    Episode 12 concludes our reading of Woolf's To the Lighthouse then presents two short essays that Ralph Waldo Emerson published in The Dial between 1840 and 1844: "The Tragic" and "The Senses and the Soul.".
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • V. Woolf, To the Lighthouse, Part 3, chs. 8-11

    V. Woolf, To the Lighthouse, Part 3, chs. 8-11
    Jan 19 2026

    Episode 11 opens with interpretive remarks about Woolf's project and several of her characters' concerns in To the Lighthouse's final part; chapters 8-11 of "The Lighthouse" are then presented.
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    59 mins
  • V. Woolf, To the Lighthouse, Part 3, chs. 4-7; Dickinson poems

    V. Woolf, To the Lighthouse, Part 3, chs. 4-7; Dickinson poems
    Jan 16 2026

    Episode 10 departs from The Reading Hour's usual format by beginning with a few short works by the 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson, with whom episode 9 had concluded. The Reader Hour then presents chapters 4-7 of To the Lighthouse's third part, "The Lighthouse."
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    59 mins
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