A Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts, Part 1
Let's relax with detailed instructions for the arts of gilding, silvering, and the making of curious inks and secret messages, all of which involve more muskrats, honey, and wolf's teeth than one migh...
4 Des 202350min
Sailing Alone Around the World, by Captain Joshua Slocum, Part 1
Let's wrap up Listener Request Month with the chronicle of the first solo sailing voyage around the world. Sail to sleep aboard the Spray as our captain builds his ship and starts an adventure most on...
27 Nov 202343min
The Railway Travellers' Handy Book, Part 1
Let's continue Listener Request Month with this delightfully thorough guide to train journeys. From reading a timetable to choosing the right portmanteau and hiring someone to throw gravel at your win...
20 Nov 202352min
The Architecture of Country Houses, by A.J. Downing - Part 1
Let's continue Listener Request Month with this guide to country buildings, by which I mean a treatise on the morality of housing, the meaning of beauty, and the art of proportion. Whatever it is, it'...
13 Nov 202350min
The Aeneid, by Virgil, Translated by John Dryden, Part 1
Let's kick off Listener Request Month with this classic, our first full "verse" offering. Scheming gods, shipwrecks, and heroic speeches, it's everything you want from an epic you just pretended to re...
6 Nov 202348min
The Book of Werewolves, by Sabine Baring-Gould, Part 2
Let's slip into spooky sleep with more about the origins of the werewolf, including Scandinavian berserkers and greedy nobles. Your brain will quietly howl with boredom. Help us stay ad-free and 100...
30 Okt 202353min
The History of Bread, by John Ashton, Part 4
Let's relax with more carby goodness as we learn about naughty bakers, how flour is made, and the terrible reputations of millers. Also, charts of chemical percentages, and I mangle some Chaucer. What...
23 Okt 202351min
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, by Robert Louis Stevenson, Part 2
Let's continue this sleepy journey through the mountains of France and encounter cantankerous farmers, lovely vistas, and the legendary Beast of Gevaudan, which ends rather anti-climactically, as lege...
16 Okt 202351min
