I enjoy reading books and I usually have a few on the go. They are typically non-fiction, but sometimes a novel. I also like to write about what I read (of which you can find examples of throughout my blog).
Towards the end of 2019 I found myself recording myself reading various short stories (written by others); these, and more, I have uploaded to either SoundCloud or Youtube. I continued this effort in 2020, 2021, and continue to this day with the intention uploading something every Saturday. You can support my efforts via Ko-Fi.
22 January 2022
The Enchanted Kettle
https://youtu.be/57eT3RwuQ0g
03:49
24 April 2021 – 15 January 2022
Shakespeare’s Comedies (Abridged)
Measure for Measure: https://youtu.be/3ti9Rk2UqdQ (07:16)
Twelfth Night or As You Will: https://youtu.be/HkHiryDgB-w (08:51)
As You Like It: https://youtu.be/qHLgAzWdq8M (09:59)
Much To Do About Nothing: https://youtu.be/Ooo4hIwhNBU (08:51)
The Taming of the Shrew: https://youtu.be/19H7Z93tkYY (08:22)
All’s Well That Ends Well: https://youtu.be/CJwRhkTQZ8U (06:49)
The Merchant of Venice: https://youtu.be/2diLac5Ldcs (09:16)
The Comedy of Errors: https://youtu.be/Vavb3_BGPTk (05:19)
The Two Gentlemen of Verona: https://youtu.be/pUzQOWiP_5I (09:26)
01 January 2022
Rockall – The Lonely Island by Seton Gordon
https://youtu.be/NXObwWQy4pc
09:16
25 December 2021
A Christmas Tree by Charles Dickens
https://youtu.be/RfE9iPPo4zs
55:12
20 November 2021
Nekumonta
https://youtu.be/bGu20pWFrWc
04:12
27 February – 17 April 2021
The Unabomber Manifesto
Part I: https://youtu.be/cnuM86kNWYM (23:07)
Part II: https://youtu.be/kHTJXfyigVs (20:46)
Part III: https://youtu.be/JZARa7AUuuc (31:00)
Part IV: https://youtu.be/ZtibWg2sD_M (32:24)
Part V: https://youtu.be/HOfpq2FCq5k (31:46)
Part VI: https://youtu.be/5VviobQg7_Y (27:35)
Part VII: https://youtu.be/l5kSUQ3c_1c (50:29)
Part VIII: https://youtu.be/7ed39p5wOoA (26:35)
20 February 2021
The Wolf That Came In The Night
https://youtu.be/MH1c6RbsQVw
03:22
13 February 2021
The Spring of Saint Boniface
https://youtu.be/22ED92C_jrg
03:34
06 February 2021
The Good Samaritans of the Desert
https://youtu.be/hF1HUmRjlnU
04:37
Related post: bmhonline.wordpress.com/…/the-good-samaritans-of-the-desert
30 January 2021
The Finest Thing in the World
https://youtu.be/sVKTBj6NCSU
11:03
23 January 2021
A Woman Against a King
https://youtu.be/yd8ic_Comxc
04:01
16 January 2021
How Arshad Served His Master
https://youtu.be/yf_04djNBPA
05:41
09 January 2021
The Man Who Refused A Bribe
https://youtu.be/fG88J6VPoxI
04:54
02 January 2021
Father Damien by Claude Williamson
https://youtu.be/FGJ-pyYhPIc
41:42
30 November 2020
The Immortal Three: Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato
https://youtu.be/HWdIt-5q0H8
27:01
10 October 2020
Light And What It Is
https://youtu.be/5I7UUoJZHf0
08:51
18 July 2020
Sir Francis Drake’s Diary
https://youtu.be/bRyo37A23yw
13:53
04 July 2020
Siven Land by Norman Douglas
https://youtu.be/XEiX9ivQ2s8
06:29
27 June 2020
Tristan da Cunha – The Lonely Isle by G. Cooper
https://youtu.be/g-LDXZ-FCa0
36:29
20 June 2020
Enchanted Islands by John Culmer
https://youtu.be/xiVoUg08Uq0
06:01
13 June 2020
The (Present) Crisis by James Russell Lowell
https://youtu.be/20eSqxeEXFA
07:50
6 June 2020
The Birth of an Island
https://youtu.be/fA2aWu7FsoQ
12:47
30 May 2020
Providence by George Herbert
https://youtu.be/e_nyfzqSYRc
11:26
23 May 2020
Boswell’s Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
https://youtu.be/om3J1eTnCCs
26:07
16 May 2020
The Ride on a Wild Horse
“Mazeppa was a page-boy in the house of a Polish nobleman, who, angry with him for something he had done, called for a wild Tartar horse he had caught the day before, lashed Mazeppa to its back, and set it free. The horse sped furiously away until it fell dead in the country of Ukraine. There a Cossack set Mazeppa free and brought him back to life. Lord Byron makes Mazeppa tell his story to a king after a great battle, and ends by making him reign on the throne of Ukraine. Here we give the parts of the poem that describe the great ride of Mazeppa.”
https://youtu.be/yJl9aHbsd0I
13:19
9 May 2020
Legends from the Isles of Shoals
https://youtu.be/j3O_B54mZIU
12:00
2 May 2020
Farne Islands Sanctuary
https://youtu.be/JB42jG5yvD8
05:16
25 April 2020
Guano Island
https://youtu.be/ra08Cg29sCQ
03:24
18 April 2020
The Story of the Months
https://youtu.be/iVF7Bx9Y_Ug
15:43
11 April 2020
The Story of the Days
https://youtu.be/T2yjz3DuuwM
12:02
4 April 2020
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
https://youtu.be/bQ35N9wWxNg
08:37
15 February – 28 March 2020
Night 53-61 of One Thousand and One Nights
53: https://youtu.be/6bSc2MvN6Pg (14:15)
54: https://youtu.be/4WBEXTrNHbE (7:31)
55: https://youtu.be/eKIu54H5PQU (14:09)
56: https://youtu.be/WA5ySmrLMl8 (08:44)
57: https://youtu.be/waPlkDZeG8I (06:18)
58: https://youtu.be/voIF2NQbxTs (07:07)
59-61: https://youtu.be/rn7XvcoUY_M (20:41)
8 February 2020
On the Way or All Aboard! by Claude Williamson
https://youtu.be/5cBENvEvBPU
42:46
1 February 2020
The Book of Zechariah 12-14
https://youtu.be/T8MPviXsAdU
10:34
25 January 2020
‘Cagliari’ by Hilaire Belloc
https://youtu.be/R7q-iOEkiMk
07:53
18 January 2020
The Story of Brave Grizel Hume
https://youtu.be/6U3zVCHaCu8
09:10
11 January 2020
The Tricks Of Scapin
https://youtu.be/QiFvsbuIdcc
05:42
The Lad Who Slept At His Post
https://soundcloud.com/bmh81/brian-reads-the-lad-who-slept-at-his-post
02:09
4 January 2020
The Original Robinson Crusoe
https://youtu.be/maDflaM-gqw
16:03
Related post: https://bmhonline.wordpress.com/…/being-a-robinson-crusoe/
29 Dec 2019
Apocalyptic Scenario 1.a
https://soundcloud.com/bmh81/apocalyptic-scenario-1a
03:40
Read by request from: https://davecline.wordpress.com/2019/12/27/apocalyptic-scenario-1-a
28 Dec 2019
A Christmas Story by Charles Dickens: The Child’s Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YD7A_VYGus
09:47
27 Dec 2019
A Christmas Story by Charles Dickens: The Poor Relation’s Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ2QuZjvB54
25:59
Related post: https://bmhonline.wordpress.com/2019/12/27/christmas-with-dickens
5 Dec 2019
The following were read from Arthur Mee’s Children’s Encyclopedia, Volume 7, page 5087-8. Related post: https://bmhonline.wordpress.com/2019/12/05/story-time-november
The Strangers At The Door
https://soundcloud.com/bmh81/the-strangers-at-the-door
05:53
The Race From Marathon
https://soundcloud.com/bmh81/the-race-from-marathon
03:24
How Rustem Met His Son
09:11
https://soundcloud.com/bmh81/how-rustem-met-his-son
Jack Frost Opens The Chestnut Burrs
02:04
https://soundcloud.com/bmh81/jack-frost-opens-the-chestnut-burrs
Mother Nature’s Spring Helpers
02:16
https://soundcloud.com/bmh81/mother-natures-spring-helpers
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