Nudie Reads

Joseph Grimaldi was England's beloved clown sensation. People laughed til they cried at his antics. And for one month he wowed them in 2 separate theatres every night. If only he had a clown car. 🏴󠁧...

12 Aug 202111min

William Shakespeare is the G.O.A.T. 38 plays and over 150 sonnets, all of them quotable and deeply moving. While "Et Tu, Brute?" is probably not original to him, the rest of the play Julius Caesar is....

8 Aug 202114min

Why is St Valentine's Day associated with romantic love? Could the kooky Roman festival of Lupercalia have been the inspiration? Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould, author of Lives of the Saints, won't say ...

5 Aug 202112min

Mrs H.R Haweis wrote Chaucer for Children: The Golden Key in 1877 for her little boy Lionel. A Victorian scholar, writer, painter, illustrator and women's vote advocate Mary Eliza Haweis was a prolifi...

1 Aug 202122min

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley knew her monsters. She was beloved as the author of Frankenstein. But she was also beloved as a skilled researcher and historian. She authored 5 volumes of Lardner's Cabine...

29 Jul 202126min

Cyrano de Bergerac was a real swashbuckling duellist of 17th Century France. And he wrote one of the world's first ever fully-fledged sci-fi stories. The 19th Century play about him and the Hollywood ...

25 Jul 202128min

O. Henry was the nom de plume of William Sydney Porter, a gem of an American writer active around the turn of the 20th century. Very active, in fact: over 300 short stories, and most of them containin...

22 Jul 202130min

Malleus Maleficarum or The Hammer of the Witches was the infamous 15th Century witch-hunters' bible. A treatise on trying, sentencing and expiring witches that was disavowed by the Vatican within 4 ye...

20 Jul 202123min