Awesome Radio - Narrated Stories Story Briefs

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!

In this audio clip, Carole Bos reads from Les Miserables, Volume I - Book Fifth ("The Descent") - Chapter XIII (entitled "The Solution of some Questio...

In this audio clip, Carole Bos reads from Les Miserables, Volume I - Book Sixth ("Javert") - Chapter I (entitled "The Beginning of Repose").

In this audio clip, Carole Bos reads from Les Miserables, Volume I - Book Sixth ("Javert") - Chapter II (entitled "How Jean May Become Champ").

Do you know the background of "Little Women?" Meet Louisa May Alcott and learn how she based her still-famous story on her real-life family.

Orson Welles' radio play, "Mutiny on the Bounty," debuted in 1939.

NOTES from UNDERGROUNDBy Fyodor DostoevskyTranslation by Andrew R.

How does a city, hosting the modern Olympics, do something special for their games?  The people of Beijing produced opening and c...

Scholars believe the famous poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) - which he called "Ozymandias" - was inspired by a statue of the young Ramesses I...

WARNING - THE BEGINNING OF THIS CLIP, FROM A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT PABLO ESCOBAR AND HIS FAMILY, CONTAINS LANGUAGE NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN.

During America's Civil War, one of the country's most-famous writers penned a poem about ... the Revolutionary War.

Scarlet Fever is an illness which is caused by bacteria. It may have been the illness which permanently impaired Helen Keller.

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