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The Cultured Bumpkin — 303 episodes
S.D. Smith | HELMER IN THE DRAGON TOMB | Green Ember Series
Abraham Lincoln | THE BIXBY LETTER | Memorial Day 2026
Edgar Allan Poe | THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
Edgar Allan Poe | THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER | Full Short Story Audiobook
Oscar Wilde | A MODEL MILLIONAIRE
Bret Harte | THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT | a Western
Shirley Jackson | CHARLES | feat. guest narrator Mary Parkinson
Author Spotlight: Juan Corrigan | Betrayed by Politics
Stephen Leacock | MY FINANCIAL CAREER | with Guest Narrator David Martin
P.G. Wodehouse | THE TRUTH ABOUT GEORGE | Short Story Audiobook feat. Mary Parkinson
James Thurber | THE MACBETH MURDER MYSTERY | A Funny Short Story with Voice Actor Mary Parkinson
A.A. Milne | WINNIE THE POOH | Classic Children's Literature
Jane Austen | "Southern" PRIDE AND PREJUDICE - Ch 1 (and an Audio Drama Casting Call)
The Magic of Live Theatre (and Why You Should Try It!) - with Nick Tuckett
Alfred, Lord Tennyson | THE LADY OF SHALOTT
Washington Irving | THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW | Classic Short Stories | Full Audiobook
George H Powell | Dueling Stories from the 16th Century (Brantome's Accounts of Fights to the Death)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Hound of the Baskervilles - a "Southern" Sherlock Audiobook
J.C. Ryle | The Biography of John Wycliffe
Matt "Conajam" Conaghan | James Joyce, Sports, and Roland the Traveling Tumbleweed
Elizabeth Barrett Browning | How Do I Love Thee? (Read by Guest Narrator Jeremy Thompson)
G.A. Henty | HUNTED BY WOLVES | Classic Short Story | The Cultured Bumpkin Podcast
Robert Frost | Into My Own | Poetry Reading
Edgar Allan Poe | The Black Cat | Classic Gothic Horror Short Story
Mary Oliver | I Looked Up | from Owls and Other Fantasies
Walt Whitman | When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
Sitting Bull's Great-Grandson Tells About Lakota Life and Culture
O. Henry | A Double-Dyed Deceiver | Classic Short Stories Read Aloud
Paul Revere's Ride | by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Classic Poetry Read Aloud
William Butler Yeats | When You Are Old
Jane Austen's SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (with Southern characters) - Ch 1 Audiobook
How To Be A Writer | A Conversation Darby Kern | Writer and Director of Jake Muller Adventures
Events that Shaped the World of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Spenser: The Spanish Armada (with Charlie the Brit)
Kenneth Grahame's (Southern) The Wind In the Willows - Rat and Mole Pay Mr Toad a Visit
William Shakespeare | Sonnet 2 | "When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow"
Charlie the Brit presents Lord Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade and the History Surrounding It
Bugs Bunny Reads Shakespeare ( a Conversation with Voice Actor and Impressionist Mitch North)
Francis Bacon | The Life of Man
Sir Philip Sidney | The Bargain
Edmund Spenser | My Love Is Like To Ice
Geoffrey Chaucer | The Canturbury Tales - Prologue
John Keats | Ode On A Grecian Urn
Edna St Vincent Millay | Love Is Not All
Edgar Allen Poe | The Tell-Tale Heart
Thomas Paine's The American Crisis (Part 1) from 1776
How to Be a Gentleman - George Washington's Manners Book
The Cremation of Sam McGee - a Tall Tale from the Gold Rush
Ozymandias - Forgotten King of Ancient Egypt
Thomas Jefferson | The Declaration of Independence
Sitting Bull's Great Grandson Gives the Lakota Perspective of the Battle of the Little Bighorn - June 25-26, 1876
Shirley Jackson | Charles
Emma Lazarus | The New Colossus
Lord Tennyson | Ulysses
Jack London | Love of Life
Robert Frost - Birches
The Short, Unhappy War of the Weaverville Tongs - The Old West -"The Forty Niners"
John Milton - from Paradise Lost - Book l
The Story of Jonah | KJV | with Music by John Busby
Walt Whitman | from When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
Tales from the Wild West | Con Man "Soapy" Smith | from TIME LIFE's "The Miners"
W.B. Yeats | The Cap and Bells
Hemingway vs Faulkner - A Quick Comparison
William Blake | The Sick Rose
If Thou Must Love Me | Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Pride and Prejudice (and Magnolias) - Mr Collins comes to Dinner - (a "southern" exceprt from Jane Austen's Classic)
Witnesses Audio | The Lamb | Fully Dramatized Radio Theatre
Edgar Allan Poe | To Helen
Robert Browning | O Never Star Was Lost
Miss You - Author Unknown - a Poem about Loss
If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking by Emily Dickinson: Finding Meaning in Small Acts
The Titanic, World War l, the Sundowner, and other Historical Stuff with Journalist Melissa Ratliff
Why Should I Read Shakespeare? (w/ guest Melanie Murray)
Evening Star - by Edgar Allan Poe
Leo Tolstory - The Three Hermits
Stave V - A (Redneck) Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Stave lV- A (Redneck) Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Stave lll- A (Redneck) Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Stave ll - A (Redneck) Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Stave l - A (Redneck) Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
"Sun Tzu is boring" - a conversation TJ Whitehead
2 Hours of Great American Short Stories
H.P. Lovecraft | Dagon
Ella Wheeler Wilcox | With Every Rising of the Sun
Ernest Lawrence Thayer | Casey at the Bat
Edgar Allan Poe | The Tell-Tale Heart
Thomas Babington McAuley | Horatius at the Bridge
Walt Whitman | Night on the Prairies
Allan Cunningham | A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea
Redneck Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice (Chapter 1)
Simon Peter | The First Epistle General of Peter
Rudyard Kipling | If
Emily Dickinson | And Bees as bustling go | Classical Literature Audio
Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Crossing the Bar | Classic Poetry Audio
King David of Israel | Psalm 62
Max Ehrmann | Desiderata
John Clare | I Am
Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Sonnet 14 "If Thou Must Love Me"
William Shakespeare | Sonnet 18
Lord Byron | 'So We'll Go No More a Roving
Susan Glaspell | Freckles M'Grath
Robert Frost | After Apple Picking
Emily Dickinson | Because I could not stop for Death
Walt Whitman | O Captain! My Captain | with Chris Tester
Robert Frost | Fire and Ice
W.B. Yeats | Two Years Later
Paul the Apostle | Romans
John Milton | On Time
Jack London | To Build a Fire
Edgar Allan Poe | The Tell Tale Heart | narrated by Antonio Roberts
Thomas Jefferson | The Declaration of Independence
Edgar Allan Poe | Ulalume | narrated by Abigail Reno
Oscar Wilde | The Model Millionaire
Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Ulysses
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls
Dwight D. Eisenhower | D-Day Letter to the Allies
Jude | The Holy Bible
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Daybreak
Mark Twain | How to Tell a Story
Alfred, Lord Tennyson | We Kiss'd Again With Tears
Emily Bronte | Fall, Leaves, Fall
Alfred Noyes | The Highwayman
1LT Tyler Parten, U.S. Army | A Memorial Day Episode
The Apostle John | Jesus Heals a Blind Man
Ella Wheeler Wilcox | John Wesley's Rule
James Whitcomb Riley | He is Not Dead
Alexander Pope | Vice
Stephen Leacock | How to Live to Be 200
William Wordsworth | The Kitten at Play
Edgar Allan Poe | The Pit and the Pendulum
The Parable of the Lost Sheep | Luke - from the Holy Bible
A Sleep Podcast Episode | featuring Ode to a Mockingbird and the poetry of William Wordsworth
William Shakespeare | Sonnet 2
Emily Dickinson | Tell all the truth but tell it slant
Thomas Hood | I Remember, I Remember
William Shakespeare | Sonnet 96
William Wordsworth | Lines Written in Early Spring
King David of Israel | Psalm 23
Elizabeth Barret Bowning | If Thou Must Love Me
O. Henry | The Ransom of Red Chief
Edgar A. Guest | No Place to Go
John Keats | Ode to a Nightingale
George Eliot | At Set of Sun
Walt Whitman | The Last Invocation
The Ten Commandments | Moses
Ella Wheeler Wilcox | You Never Can Tell
You Mustn't Quit | Author Unknown
Robert Browning | Song of Pippa Passes
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
William Shakespeare | Sonnet 100
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | A Psalm of Life
The Good Samaritan | Luke
Mark Twain | Don't Copy Cat
Robert Frost | Nothing Gold Can Stay
Ben Jonson | Truth
Sir Walter Raleigh | Even Such Is Time
Edgar A Guest | Defeat
O. Henry | The Cop and the Anthem
The Apostle John | 1 John
Edgar Allen Poe | To Helen
John Keats | The Human Seasons
Emily Dickinson | 'Hope' is the thing with feathers
William Shakespeare | Sonnet 19
Robert Frost | The Road Not Taken
John Donne | The Bait
Elijah and the Prophets of Baal | The Book of First Kings
Emily Dickinson | Self-Reliance
W.B. Yeats | When You Are Old
Robert Burns | My Bonny Mary
William Shakespeare | Sonnet 18
Edgar Allen Poe | Annabel Lee
Edgar Allen Poe | Hop-Frog
The Story of the Resurrection of Jesus | the Gospel According to Luke
William Blake | The Tyger
D.H. Lawrence | Shadows
John Greenleaf Whittier | Maud Muller
Tennessee Williams | The Glass Menagerie | with Emily Liner
Mark Twain | Journalism in Tennessee
Sir Walter Scott | Native Land
The Story of Jonah | the Holy Bible
Edgar A Guest | Father
Don't Give Up | Unkown
Dover Beach | Matthew Arnold
Wilfred Owen | Anthem for Doomed Youth
Emily Dickinson | I measure every Grief I meet
Edgar Allen Poe | The Raven
Daniel in the Lions Den | The Book of Daniel
William Shakespeare | Sonnet 36 | with guest Raine Fielder
T.S. Eliot | The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Robert Frost | Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
Walt Whitman | I Hear America Singing
Robert Service | The Cremation of Sam McGee
Theodore Roosevelt | The Man in the Arena | with Ross Hillier
The Story of Creation | Genesis
Rudyard Kipling | If | with Charlie Phillips
Christopher Marlowe | The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
William Shakespeare | Sonnet 116
Edgar Allen Poe | The Masque of the Red Death
William Wordsworth | I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud
Lewis Carroll | Jabberwocky | with Adele Spears
The Prodigal Son | the Gospel According to Luke
With Every Rising of the Sun | Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Robert Burns | A Red, Red Rose
John Donne | Death, Be Not Proud
Tell Her So | Unknown
Mark Twain | The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
John Keats | To Sleep
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Concord Hymn
William Shakespeare | Sonnet 29
Edgar A Guest | See It Through
Elizabeth Barret Browning | How Do I Love Thee?
Walt Whitman | A Prairie Sunset
Ambrose Bierce | An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge
Robert Frost | A Time to Talk
Mark Twain | A Telephonic Conversation | with Andy Harvey
Edgar Allen Poe | The Cask of Amontillado
William Blake | The Lamb
O. Henry | A Retrieved Reformation w/Jesse Phillips
Carl Sandburg | Cool Tombs
Irene Thompson | Rainy Nights w/ J.D. Sutter
Henry David Thoreau | Walden
Oliver Wendell Holmes | Old Ironsides
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Day is Done
Leo Tolstoy | The Three Hermits
Emily Bronte | Fall, Leaves, Fall
Robert Frost | Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Emily Dickinson | If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
Edgar Allen Poe | To My Mother
Thomas Aquinas | De Regno
William Shakespeare | Sonnet 60
John Masefield | Sea Fever
The Apostle John | Revelation
Lord Tennyson | The Eagle
Herman Melville | Moby Dick | Chapter 1
Harrison Scott Key | The World's Largest Man
Percy Shelley | Ozymandias
Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Crossing the Bar
Emily Dickinson | If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
Alfred, Lord Tennyson | The Lady of Shalott
Robert Service | The Cremation of Sam McGee
T.S. Eliot | The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
Shirley Jackson | Charles
Admiral James Stockdale | Freedom
Cinderella
Revelation | John the Apostle
Paul Revere's Ride | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Frederick Douglass | from Impartial Sufferage w/Maj Toure
Mark Twain | Journalism in Tennessee
Washington Irving | Rip Van Winkle
Thomas Paine | The American Crisis, Part 1
James Thurber | The Unicorn in the Garden
1 John | John the Apostle
O. Henry | The Ransom of Red Chief
The Christmas Story - Luke
Annabel Lee- by Edgar Allan Poe
Declaration of Independence- Thomas Jefferson
Lord Byron- She Walks in Beauty
Edgar Allan Poe- The Tell Tale Heart- narrated by Antonio Roberts
Lord Tennyson- The Charge of the Light Brigade- read by Adam Ettlich
Robert Frost- The Pasture
e.e. cummings- when serpents...
If- Rudyard Kipling
Stephen Leacock- My Financial Career
The Gospel of John narrated by JakePhillips
John McCrae- Flanders Fields
Oscar Wilde- TheSelfishGiant-narrated by Ben Kensee
Stephen Leacock- The Force of Statistics
John 1- The Holy Bible
John Keats- Ode to a Nightingale
Joyce Kilmer- Trees
Frederick Douglass- from Impartial Sufferage w/Maj Toure
Oscar Wilde- The Model Millionaire
O. Henry- Confessions of a Humorist
Idioms- Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
Thanksgiving Day Proclamation_ Abraham LincolnThanksgivingProclamation
Mark Twain- A Telephonic Conversation
Walt Whitman- Cavalry Crossing A Ford
Ryan Winfrey- The Life of Ryan: A Story About a Kid from Mississippi
Stephen Leacock- My Financial Career w/Glen Nuzzles
James Whitcomb Riley- When the Frost is On the Punkin
Edgar Allan Poe- The Raven w/Boyd Barrett
Jean de La Fontaine-The Quarrel Between the Dogs and the Cats...w/Glen Nuzzles
Stephen Leacock- How to Live to Be 200
Katie Speake- The Thief of Solarrhia
William Shakespeare- "The Quality of Mercy" w/Preston Scott
Rudyard Kipling- How the Camel Got His Hump
Lisa Kroger- Monster, She Wrote + Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
William Shakespeare- "All the World's a Stage"
Edgar Allan Poe- El Dorado
Walt Whitman- Miracles
Emily Dickinson- Real
Susan Glaspell- Freckles M'Grath
Henry David Thoreau- from Walden
Henry David Thoreau- Solitude from "Walden"
William Shakespeare- Sonnet 116
Edgar Allan Poe- Ulalume (w/Abigail Reno)
Abraham Lincoln- The Gettysburg Address
Edgar A. Guest- My Creed
Edgar Allan Poe- Annabel Lee (w/Tim Kolczak)
George Washington- On Good Manners
Stephen Leacock- Aristocratic Education
Laura E Richards- The Patient Cat
Ralph Waldo Emerson- Fable
Robert Frost- The Road Not Taken