Asmr with the classics

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Asmr with the classics episodes

October 12, 2024 Maigrets special murder
The dumping of a mutilated corpse in the Place de la Concorde involves Maigret in the hunt for a gang of cold-blooded killers in the slums
1 hr 21 min
October 09, 2024 A Blueprint for Murder !
A man seeks the truth about his widowed sister-in-law , suspected of poisoning relatives.

47 min
October 06, 2024 Go down in darkness
'Just about the last time I saw Sue before she vanished, she said something very odd ... she said that when she was 25 something terrible was going to happen to her. I didn't really take her seriously .. -. but the night before last, this dream ... she was standing in front of me, staring at me and just repeating it over and over again:

"Something terrible is going to happen. Something terrible is going to happen".'
Rod Beacham ( Dec 3 1940-Feb 12 2013)
He was active in radio drama, firstly as a performer but later writing a number of plays . Although he enjoyed thrillers, he frequently ventured into other areas and his play 'Frame of Deference' was a thinly-veiled, light-hearted attack on the American Dream using the medium of Science Fiction. He continued writing for the market until 1994 although few examples of his work actually survive they are mostly in private collections.
1 hr 24 min
October 04, 2024 The Wonderful Visit - H.G. Wells
the arrival of an angel, and the exploration of the contrasting worlds of humans and angels. The vicar's curiosity leads him to engage with the angel, revealing themes of dreams, reality, and the complexities of social dynamics in a village setting. As the angel navigates this new world, he faces conflicts with societal expectations, ultimately leading to a tragic fire that intertwines the fates of the angel and a young maid named Delia.
Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography. Wells' science fiction novels are so well regarded that he has been called the "father of science fiction".
In addition to his fame as a writer, he was prominent in his lifetime as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. As a futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works.
57 min
September 30, 2024 The long Goodbye - Raymond chandler
Raymond Chandler's cynical world-weary private eye is drawn into the brutal murder of his drinking buddy's wife.
Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a Detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers don't shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular Pulp Magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime (an eighth, in progress at the time of his death, was completed by Robert B Parker). All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once. In the year before his death, he was elected president of the Mystery writers of America
Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature.
1 hr 28 min
September 25, 2024 The making of Kipps
Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul is a novel by H .G Wells, first published in 1905. It was reportedly Wells own favorite among his works,
Arthur "Artie" Kipps, an illegitimate orphan. In Book I, "The Making of Kipps", he is raised by his aged aunt and uncle, who keep a little shop in New Romney on the southeastern coast of Kent He attends the Cavendish Academy – "a middle-class school"

53 min
September 21, 2024 Sweeney Todd
Sweeney Todd is a fictional character who first appeared as the villain of the Penny Dreadful serial The String of Pearls (1846–1847). The original tale became a feature of 19th-century Melodrama and London Legend. A Barber from Fleet Street, Todd murders his customers with a straight razor and gives their corpses to Mrs Lovett, his partner in crime, who bakes there flesh into meat pies. The tale has been retold many times since in various media.
Claims that Sweeney Todd was a historical person are disputed strongly by scholars, although possible legendary prototypes exist.
58 min
September 15, 2024 Dead Mans Ransom
a medieval Mystery Novel by Ellis Peters, first of four novels set in the disruptive year of 1141. It is the ninth in and was first published in 1984.
The Sheriff of Shropshire is wounded and taken prisoner by Welsh on the side of Empress Maud in a major battle. His return requires an exchange, bringing two lively young Welshmen into the castle where the Sheriff's daughter resides. Welshmen on the border with England see opportunities for their own benefit as the chaos in England continues, with the King captured.
This novel received some enthusiastic and positive reviews at the time of publication. The plot includes "a denouement that combines rough justice and love triumphant."
2 hr 9 min
September 10, 2024 Who's Body
A body is found and a body is lost - but whose body has appeared in a bath in Battersea and where is the body of famous financier Sir Reuben Levy, who went to bed one night in his flat in Park Lane and simply disappeared?
1 hr 25 min
September 04, 2024 The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens. It is a mystery indeed; the serial novel was just half completed at the time of Dickens' death - leading to much speculation on how it might have ended.
1 hr 25 min