Sometimes it's nice just to hear a story. Like the "golden age of radio," Awesome Stories features dramatizations of classics, narrated chapters of our own stories, radio interviews and radio plays. This collection benefits ESL, adult literacy and those who just want to close their eyes and listen to a good story!
Alvar Liddell, a BBC reporter on the day of the Pearl Harbor attack, told the world what had happened.
A news report during the attack, broadcast by a reporter for KGU in Honolulu, reports that "this battle has been going on for nearly three hours.
The attack by Japan was "unprovoked" and "dastardly," to use President Roosevelt's words.
Americans were shocked to learn about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Denny Smith - from WIBC ("Indy's News Center," at 93.
Denny Smith - from WIBC ("Indy's News Center," at 93.
Samuel Gompers was head of the AFL union when he gave a speech in support of America's involvement in World War I.
Before he was known as Lord Byron, the still-famous poet was called George Gordon.
Heinrich Karl Bukowski - better known as Charles Bukowski (or "Hank," to his friends and family) - was born in Andernach, Germany on the 16th of Augus...
Until she was nearly seven, Helen could not communicate with anyone except by her own sign language.
Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was born in Wales to Norwegian parents.
When she was 11, Helen wrote a story she thought was her own, and "The Frost King" was published by the director of the Perkins Institute.
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