Night Time Stories

Starting on July 13 2026 I shall reading more stories by classic authors in my fourth and, for now at least, final series of Night Time Stories for Radio Odstock

July 13 2026

Jerome K. Jerome: Three Men in a Boat

Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows Chapter 1

Henry Mayhew’s: The Mudlark

July 20

Chekhov: The Darling

Katherine Mansfield: Bliss

July 27

E. M. Delafield: A Tale of the Times

Dylan Thomas: A Child’s Christmas in Wales

Kilvert’s Diary: Christmas 1870

August 3

Katherine Mansfield: Daughters of the Late Colonel

Traditional: King John and the Abbot

From the Ingoldsby Legends: The Jackdaw of Rheims

August 10

Dickens: Gabriel Grub (or How the Goblins Stole a Sexton

Damon Runyon: The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown

August 17

O Henry: The Ransom of Red Chief

C.G. Harper: The Story of Thomas Boulter

Henry Fielding: A Visit to Parson Trulliber (from Joseph Andrews)

August 24

Conan Doyle: The Horror of the Heights Part 1

Amelia Earhart: Flying the Atlantic Solo

Henry Mayhew:  A Balloon Flight Above Victorian London

August 31

Conan Doyle: The Horror of the Heights Part 2

Dickens: Crossing the Atlantic by Steamship

W.H. Davies: The Autobiography of a Super Tramp

Oscar Wilde: Oscar Wilde at Leadville

September 7

Jane Austen: Emma’s First Meeting with Mrs Elton (from Emma)

H.G. Wells: The Door in the Wall

September 14

Katherine Mansfield: Miss Brill

Jane Austen: Catherine Morland’s Introduction to Bath Society (from Northanger Abbey)

Arnold Bennett: The Umbrella

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