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Title
1

Book Of The Week - Blessed Be Drudgery

2

Book of The Week - The Truth about Poultry

3

Book of Week - George R Scott - The Art of Faking Exhibition Poultry

4

Frederick Marryat - The Werewolf

5

Robert Aickman - The Cicerones

6

The Whole Thing - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

7

V.S. Pritchett - A story of Don Juan

8

Arthur Gray - The True History of Anthony Ffryar

9

3 Books of the Week

10

Book of the Week - A Glowing and Graphic Description of The Great Hole by D.U.C. 1858

11

Elizabeth Bowen - Hand in Glove

12

Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 9, Part 3

13

Book Of The Week - Riggermortis by Frank Bruno

14

Brothers Grimm - The Seven Ravens

15

The Brothers Grimm - The Shoemaker and the Elves

16

Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 9, Part 2

17

Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 9, Part 1

18

Book Of The Week - BISBA by Timothy Burr

19

Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 8

20

Book of the Week - Correct Mispronounciation Of Carolina Names

21

Saturday-ish Night Serial - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 7, Part 4

22

Book of the Week - The Benefits of Farting Explain'd

23

JFK inaugural speech, 20 January 1961

24

Bram Stoker - The Judge's House

25

Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 7, Part 3

26

Book Of The Week - Historic Nuns by Bessie Rayner Parkes

27

Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 7, Part 2

28

Thank you

29

Henry van Dyke - Keeping Christmas

30

A.N.L.Mundy - Encounter in the Mist

31

Christmas Reads - Francis Browne - The Christmas Cuckoo

32

L.T.C Rolt - Bosworth Summit Pound

33

Christmas Reads - Clement Clarke Moore - T'was The Night Before Christmas

34

Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 7, Part 1

35

Book of the Week - The Leadership Secrets of Attila The Hun

36

Christmas Stories - Hans Christian Anderson - The Snowman

37

Walter De La Mare - Bad Company

38

Christmas Reads - Leo Tolstoy - Papa Panov's Christmas

39

A.M. Burridge - Smee

40

Eleanor F. Lewis - The Vengeance of a Tree

41

Christmas Reads - Henry Van Dyke - Keeping Christmas

42

Sir Walter Scott - The Tapestried Chamber

43

Christmas Reads - Hans Christian Anderson - The Little Match Girl

44

Fitz-James O'Brien - What Was It? (extract)

45

Christmas Reads - Charles Dickens - Christmas at Fezziwig's House

46

Christmas Reads - A German Folk Tale - The Christmas Fairy of Strasburg

47

Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 6, Part 2

48

Book of the Week - The Irritablity of Vegtables by Robert Lyall

49

Just Reads will be back next week with a bulging sack of Yule verbiage

50

Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 6, Part 1

51

Book of the Week - Eleven Years A Drunkard, Or, The Life Of Thomas Doner: Having Lost Both Arms Through Intemperance

52

Rosemary Timperly - The Mistress In Black

53

Simon Raven - The Bottle of 1912

54

Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 5

55

Serial Catch up - The Great Gatsby

56

Book of the Week - Feeding per Rectum as illustrated in the case of the late President Garfield and others

57

Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 4, Part 5

58

Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 4, Part 4

59

Washington Irving - The Legend of Don Sancho Muncho

60

Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 4, Part 3

61

Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 4, Part 2

62

H.G. Wells - The Red Room

63

Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 4, Part 1

64

Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 3

65

Book of the Week - Sense by a Citizen of No Importance

66

REPLAY: Thomas Burke - The Hollow Man

67

Charlotte Brontë - Napoleon and the Spectre

68

Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 2

69

Book of the week - YOU Can Make a Stradivarius Violin

70

Barry Pain - Rose Rose

71

Walter De La Mare - The Looking Glass

72

Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 1, Part 3

73

Book of the Week - 250 Times I Saw A Play by Keith Newman

74

Halloween Stories - The Signalman - Charles Dickens (REPEAT)

75

Halloween Stories - M.R.James - Rats (Repeat)

76

Halloween Stories - M.R.James - A warning to the curious (REPEAT)

77

Halloween Stories - Charles Dickens - The Black Veil (REPEAT)

78

Halloween Stories - Edgar Allen Poe - The Masque of the Red Death (repeat)

79

Halloween Stories - Tom Heriot - The Trapdoor (REPEAT)

80

Halloween Stories - Henry James - Turn of the Screw (extract) (Repeat)

81

Halloween Stories - Algernon Blackwood - Keeping His Priomise (repeat)

82

Halloween Stories - M.R.James - The Man Who Dwelt by The Churchyard (REPEAT)

83

Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 1, Part 2

84

Book of the week - The Book of Marmalade: Its Antecedents, Its History and Its Role in the World Today

85

Edgar Allen Poe - Some Words With The Mummy (extract)

86

C.D. Heriot - The Trapdoor

87

Henry James - Turn of the Screw (extract)

88

J Sebastian Le Fanu - The Narrative of the Ghost of a Hand

89

Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - Chapter 1, Part 1

90

Book of the week - Toddlers Guide to the Rubber Industry

91

Charles Dickens - The Trial For Murder

92

Thomas Hood - The Tale of Terror

93

Book of the week - Report of the temperature reached in army biscuits during baking,

94

Charles Dickens - The Black Veil

95

F.Marion Crawford - The Upper Berth

96

Edgar Allen Poe - The Tell Tale Heart

97

The dispute over Casablanca

98

Daniel Defoe - Mrs Veal

99

Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Epilogue

100

Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 16 - After The Story

101

JS Fletcher - The Other Sense

102

Ambrose Bierce - The Bottomless Grave

103

Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 15 - The Time Traveller Returns

104

M.R.James - The Man Who Dwelt by The Churchyard

105

Kenneth Grahame - Wind In The Willows - Toad Steals The Car

106

Kenneth Grahame - Wind In The Willows - The Cart and the Car

107

E G Swain - Bone to his Bones

108

Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 14 - A Further Vision

109

Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland - The Tea Party

110

Amelia B. Edwards - The Phantom Coach

111

Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 13 - The Trap Of The White Sphinx

112

Edgar Allen Poe - The Fall of the House of Usher (extract)

113

James Thurber - The Greatest Man In The World

114

Gertrude Atherton - The Dead and the Countess

115

Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 12 - In The Darkness

116

Ray Bradbury - Zero Hour

117

Barry Pilton - In a Nutshell - Einstein's Watch

118

Robert L. Stephenson - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (extract)

119

Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 11 - The Palace of Green Porcelain

120

Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - First Ten Chapters Catchup

121

W. Somerset Maugham =The Taipan

122

M.R.James - A Warning To The Curious

123

Saturday Night Serial - H.G.Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 10 - When Night Came

124

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla (excerpt)

125

Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 9 - The Morlocks

126

H.G.Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 8 - Explanation (REDONE)

127

Jerome K Jerome - Three Men In A Boat - Opening

128

Washington Irving - The Adventure of the German Student

129

EJ Benson - The Room in the Tower

130

John Pheonix - Tushmaker's Toothpuller

131

O Henry - The Furnished Room

132

Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 8 - Explanation

133

Ralph Cram - In Kropsberg Keep

134

Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels - The Academy of Projectors

135

Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels - The Peoples of Laputa

136

Charles Dickens - The Signalman (New Read)

137

Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 7 - A Sudden Shock

138

E Nesbitt - Mansize in Marble

139

George and Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody

140

War of the Worlds - Introduction

141

Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 6 - The Sunset of Mankind

142

JR M.R.James - Rats

143

Frank Norris - The Ship That Saw a Ghost

144

Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 5 - In The Golden Age

145

Pointless Book of The Week - The Romance of Leprosy

146

Morley Roberts - The Smile of the Giaconda

147

Mary Shelley - Frankenstein (excerpt)

148

Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine - Chapter 4 - Time Travel

149

Arthur Conan Doyle - Hound of the Baskervilles - excerpt - Better version

150

Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles (extract)

151

Promotional Pamphlet - The Time Registering Closet 1892

152

Edgar Allen Poe - The Masque of the Red Death

153

H.G. Wells - The Time Machine Chapter 3 - The Time Traveller Returns

154

Pamela Hansford Johnson - The Honourable Ghost

155

Writers - The life and works of Walter De La Mare

156

Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol (ExTract)

157

Saturday Night Serial - H.G. Wells - The Time Machine Chapter 2 - The Machine

158

Phillip K Dick- The Eyes Have It

159

About Writers - The Life and Works of Charles Dickens

160

Algernon Blackwood - Keeping His Promise

161

Saturday Night Serial - The Time Machine by H.G. Wells - Episode One

162

E & H Heron - The Story of Baelbrow

163

Grimm Brothers - The Juniper Tree

164

James Thurber - The MacBeth Murder Mystery

165

JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

166

Grimm Stories - Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

167

M.R. James - The Haunted Dolls House

168

Answer by Fredric Brown (1954)

169

Bros Grimm - The Golden Goose

170

Adam Blai - The Exorcism Files

171

Edgar Allen Poe - The Sphinx

172

Duncan Black and Iain Dale - Prime Minister Boris

173

Grimm Brothers - The Robber Bridegroom

174

Barry Cryer - Pigs can Fly

175

The Brothers Grimm - The Seven Ravens

176

Brothers Grimm - Hansel and Gretel

177

Garry Shandling - Larry Sanders - The Autobiography of Larry Sanders

178

H.G. Wells - The Truth about Pyecraft

179

Stephen Hodge - Dead Sea Scrolls: The Essential Guide to Their Origin, Meaning and Significance

180

Catherine Curzon - The Scandal of George III's Court

181

Bob Monkhouse - Book of Days

182

Dan Snow - On This Day In History

183

Charles Dickens - The Signalman

184

Christmas Ghost Stories - J. K. Bangs - Ghosts that have haunted me

185

R.L. Stevenson - The Bodysnatchers

186

Christmas Ghost Stories - W.W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw

187

Christmas Ghost Stories - M.R. James - The Mezzotint

188

Christmas Ghost Stories - Edgar Allan Poe - The Silence

189

Christmas Stories - The story of the youth who went forth to learn what fear was

190

Pete Sawyer (and others) - Gotcha

191

Christmas Stories - Briar Rose

192

Christmas Stories - The Blue Light

193

Val McDermid - Forensice - The Anatomy of Crime

194

Christmas Stories - The Frog Prince

195

Christmas Stories - Rumpelstiltskin

196

Les Dawson - A Clown Too Many

197

Fred Dinage - Reg And Ron Kray: Our Story

198

Garth Marenghi's Terrortome

199

H.G. Wells - The Invisible Man

200

George Grossmith & Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody

201

PJ O'Rouke - All the Trouble In the World

202

Monty Python - Just the Words

203

Book of General Ignorance

204

Mary L. Trump - Too Much and Never Enough (Repeat)

205

Simon Mayo - Worst of the Radio 1 Confessions

206

Woody Allen - Side Effects

207

Steve Martin - Pure Drivel

208

Charles Bronson - My Journey Into Hell

209

Ronnie Barker - All I Ever Wrote

210

Neil Brandwood - Victoria Wood The Biography

211

Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy

212

Stephen Fry - Making History

213

Kerry Jamieson - The Golden Door

214

Paul Britton - Jigsaw Man

215

Cynthia True - American Scream

216

James Thurber - My Life and Hard Times

217

Miriam Margoyles - This Much is true

218

Thomas Burke - Short Story - The Hollow Man

219

Jean-François Marmion - The psychology of stupidity

220

The Onion's Finest News Reporting - Vol1

221

JFK - The Unspeakable - James Douglas

222

Hugh Lloyd - Thank God For A Funny Face

223

Bob Mortimer - And Away

224

Peter Cook - Tragically I was an only twin

225

Flann O'Brien - Myles Away From Dublin

226

Medieval Bodies - Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages

227

The Haunting of Alma Fielding - A True Ghost Story

228

The World As I See It by Albert Einstein: Albert Einstein's Philosophical Reflections on Life and Humanity

229

Bryan Jackson - Why the Titanic was doomed

230

The Meaning of Liff - Douglas Adams and John Lloyd

231

Why the Titanic was Doomed: A Disaster of Circumstance

232

Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

233

Flann O'Brien - At Swim Two Birds

234

Sleeping with Psychopaths = A chilling study of the innocent lovers of savage murderers -

235

The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov -

236

Out of Thin Air - A True Story of Impossible Murder in Iceland

237

Oxford Book of Humourous Prose

238

Nothing but the Truth: The Memoir of an Unlikely Lawyer

239

Forensics by Dr Zakaria Erzinclioglu

240

Alan Partridge books - We need to talk about, Nomad and Big Beacon

241

Wilfred Bramble - You dirty Old Man

242

Jack and the Thames Torso Murders

243

REVIEW : Mary L. Trump - Too Much and Never Enough