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March 5, 2025

COUNT KONRAD'S COURTSHIP by ROBERT BARR

A knight returns from the Crusades to his castle in Germany to find that the neighboring castle is under seige and that a beautiful 18 year old girl named Brunhilda Bernstein is defending it staunchly, the King having died during the seige and her...

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March 2, 2025

AFTER 20 YEARS and LOST ON DRESS PARADE A DOUBLE TREAT FROM O.HENRY

Two great short stories from O.Henry! AFTER TWENTY YEARS-  A cop walking the beat at night passes a man standing quietly in a passageway and they exchange greetings. The man tells the cop he is waiting for an old friend to show up- they had grown...

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March 1, 2025

THE LEOPARD MAN (FROM 1001 BEST OF JACK LONDON) SHORT SHORT SATURDAY…

This is our way of reminding you that we offer new Jack London stories weekly every Sunday at noon ET at 1001 Best of Jack London- Here are the links: Our website: Hit "Follow" at Apple Podcast:   Spotify:

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Feb. 26, 2025

JERSEY AND MULBERRY by HC BUNNER

A cranky old lady writes a mean editorial to the city paper about an organ grinder who was playing beneath her window, asking the city to move him off the streets.A reader replies giving us a picture of that part of the city and just how many people...

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Feb. 23, 2025

THE FAIRY TALE OF FATHER BROWN by G.K.CHESTERTON

Father Brown and his trusty friend Flambeau are visiting an old castle in Germany when Flambeau shares the story of an unsolved murder which occurred there years ago. Browse all 12 of our 1001 stories Network shows at and visit our Patreon site at ...

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Feb. 19, 2025

O.HENRY DOUBLE FEATURE: THE SLEUTHS AND WITCHES LOAVES

The Sleuths- A man comes to New York City to find his sister whom he knows is in need of financial help but is led astray by ineffective and expensive detectives. Wictches Loaves-An older woman who owns a bakery takes pity on a regular customer who...

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Feb. 16, 2025

DOING CLARENCE A BIT OF GOOD P.G.WODEHOUSE

Bernie Wooster receives a call from an old beau inviting him up to she and her new husband's home in the country and he accepts, but has second thoughts when he finds the purpose of her invitation.

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Feb. 9, 2025

A COLLEGE VAGABOND by ANDY ADAMS

In this 1906 short story by Texas author Andy Adams a young eastern college bound man is offered a trip out west to Texas to check up on his father's investment of property outside of San Antonio. His trip, taken primarily to restore his health, turns...

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Feb. 2, 2025

ABSENT TREATMENT by P.G. WODEHOUSE

From the creator of "Leave It To Jeeves" comes this short story, narrated by a character very similar to our friend Bernie Wooster- who tries to help his friend out after a marital row. It seems his pal has trouble remembering anything, and this time...

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Jan. 29, 2025

MRS. TREMAIN by ROBERT BARR

A beautiful woman enjoying an ocean cruise with her much older husband  attracts the attention of two men who end up competing for her attention while our narrator tries to talk sense into the younger man.  The characters are well presented...

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Jan. 26, 2025

THE CAST-IRON CANVASSER by BANJO PATERSON

In this hilarious short story from Down Under a company which employs door-to-door book salesmen finds itself in serious trouble when , at the end of a long and successful sales push, the salesmen beging quitting dbecause the...

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Jan. 19, 2025

THE PERSIHING OF THE PENDRAGONS REV2

Father Brown and his pal Flambeau take a tour of the Cornwall coast and are led to an old pirates home with a lot of legend attached. . They have no idea that they and the owner will be targets of a murder attempt within a few hours. Check out all of...

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Jan. 15, 2025

JEEVES EXERTS THE OLD CEREBELLUM P.G. WODEHOUSE

Bertie helps out an old pal who is trying to extract a bigger allowance from his rich uncle so he can marry a waitress. They turn to Jeeves for a way to talk his uncle into it.

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Jan. 8, 2025

THE CREATURES THAT TIME FORGOT (PT 2) RAY BRADBURY

Sim and Lyta join a group of warriors led by Chion who are headed for the other cave clan with the object of taking lives which will add days to theor own. Because those caves are located half way to the wrecked ship Sim believes that will be their...

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Jan. 5, 2025

THE CREATURES THAT TIME FORGOT (PT 1) by RAY BRADBURY

Our protagonist is a young man whose family and ancestors have been marooned on a nearly uninhabitable planet with no hope of escaping. Here, because of harmful radiation, they are born they age, and die after 8 days They have the advantage of having...

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Dec. 25, 2024

JEEVES AND THE HARD-BOILED EGG by P.G. WODEHOUSE

Bernie Wooster's old pal stops by to share his troubles- those being the fact that his Uncle's monthly checks have dried up- and being to proud to borrow from Bernie, he is seeking an answer. Bernie asks Jeeves.... Join us at to enjoy all our shows...

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Dec. 22, 2024

A CHRISTMAS EVE SUIT by EDWARD PARSON ROE

A young up and coming attorney decides to court two young ladies and put them to the test to see which is the better marriage material, so he asks them to join him for a sleigh ride across an icy river... Join us at for all 12podcasts, including our...

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Dec. 22, 2024

NOW PLAYING AT 1001 BEST OF JACK LONDON: OUR HAWAII BY CHARMIAN AND J…

In the winter of 1915-1916 Jack and his wife Charmian London sailed their Snark to Hawaii, It was a bittersweet return to paradise for both of them, Jack have come there twice before, one of those times with Charmaine. But th...

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Dec. 18, 2024

JEEVES AND THE UNBIDDEN GUEST BY P.G.WODEHOUSE

A friend of Bernie Wooster's Aunt Agatha shows upenexpectedly and drops her backward twenty- something son off for a month after receiving Bernie's promise that he will be sheltered from the evils of the big city. Less than twenty-fours later the son,...

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Dec. 15, 2024

THE MIRROR OF THE MAGISTRATE- A FATHER BROWN ADVENTURE

Father Brown solves a murder and saves an innocent man from the gallows! Check out all our 12 podcasts at ! Most popular: 1001 Sherlock Holmes, #2 1001 Classic Short stories 7 tales, #3 1001 Heroes, legends, Histories & Mysteries Newest: 1001True...

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Dec. 11, 2024

A TALE OF NEGATIVE GRAVITY by FRANK STOCKTON

A very clever tale about a man who invented an anti-gravity machine capable of lifting him off the ground with the turn of a screw. A number of hilarious encounters take place, one being this man's challenging an experienced mountain hiker to a hike...

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Dec. 8, 2024

THE ANGELOF THE ODD by EDGAR ALLAN POE

In this fractious tale our narrator,alone in his study, and bored with hi9s reading material, turns to a newspaper, and seeing the outrageous attention-getting headlines, compalins out loud about how gullible the readers must be to absorb this...

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Dec. 4, 2024

THE HERBINGER and ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS by O.HENRY

In The Harbinger, a run down man and his two unemployed pals sit on a park bench and devise a scheme to rob the married man's wife of a one dollar bill so they can buy themselves a beer at the local pub. In One Thousand Dollars, a spoiled young man is...

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Dec. 1, 2024

LEAVE IT TO JEEVES P.G. WODEHOUSE

The first of a series of cleverly written "Jeeves" stories by P.G.Wodehouse- featuring the butler who has every answer to every problem. Our narrator is a wealty young British man who has recently arrived in New York City with his manservant Jeeves...

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