Asmr with the classics

By ASMR with the classicsHistory

Asmr with the classics episodes

May 17, 2023 Tennessee Williams ( The Glass Menagerie)
The Glass Menagerie was Tennessee Williams' first big success when it opened on Broadway in 1945, and has remained the most touching, tender and painful of his works. Closely based on the playwright's own life and family in St Louis in the 1930s, Williams breaks away from naturalism to create a dream-like atmosphere. The narrator Tom conjures up recollections of the cramped and claustrophobic tenement home he shares with his often over-bearing mother Amanda, and his painfully shy sister, Laura
---
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support
1 hr 40 min
May 13, 2023 North and South ( Elizabeth Gaskell)
North and South
Margaret Hale and her family are forced to move north to the industrial mill town of Milton, an upheaval that brings the awakening of her social conscience. When a strike threatens the town, Margaret finds herself pitted in passionate opposition to the values of local mill owner John Thornton, one of her family's few acquaintances in their new home. Gaskell's novel still resonates today in its portrayal of the north-south divide and its themes of class, gender and social responsibility
---
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support
2 hr 49 min
May 12, 2023 Jamaica Inn ( Daphne du Maurier)
The year is 1815. After her parents' deaths, Mary Yellan has been forced to sell her family's farm and move to Cornwall to stay with her Aunt Patience and her aunt's husband Joss Merlyn, the owners and proprietors of the gloomy and threatening Jamaica Inn...an inn with no guests and an unsavory reputation; also, her formerly-lively aunt is now merely a shadow of her former self and her uncle is a drunken bully.
---
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support
3 hr 44 min
May 10, 2023 Nathaniel Hawthorne ( The Scarlett Letter)
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic American novel. Moral fiction first published in 1850.
Set in a 17th century Puritan Boston Bay colony during the years 1642 to 1649 - the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives her daughter Pearl, following an affair with a respected, unnamed figure.
---
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support
1 hr 53 min
May 06, 2023 Charles Dickens ( Hunted Down)
When a man's sweetheart is murdered in an insurance fraud scam, the man vows to catch the killer and bring him to justice.
---
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support
41 min
May 05, 2023 Poirot ( One,Two,Buckle my shoe.)
The murder of the Belgian detective's dentist sparks a chain of gruesome events
---
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support
2 hr 11 min
May 03, 2023 Murder on the homefront
1941. A chance encounter in a dance hall leads Molly to romance, murder, and a new career.
---
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support
1 hr 51 min
April 30, 2023 Murder is easy!
It's very easy to kill - so long as no one suspects you.' So says Miss Pinkerton when ex-policeman Luke Fitzwilliam meets her on a train. Luke doesn't take much notice of this little old lady's story about a serial killer on the loose in her village - until her predictions start to come true, when he feels compelled to check it out. Very soon the race is on to prevent any more murders...
---
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support
1 hr 19 min
April 27, 2023 The porlock poisoner
Five global do-gooders descend upon the tranquil village of Porlock Weir in Somerset to compete for a £25m grant.
---
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support
56 min
April 27, 2023 The Sittaford Mystery ( Miss Marple)
A blizzard has hit England. In the tiny village of Sittaford, on the fringes of Dartmoor, a party of six is gathered in Sittaford House, home of Captain Trevelyan. He has rented the house out for the winter and is staying in a nearby village.
---
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support
2 hr 22 min