BRASS Podcast
1) BRASS Stacks Episode 10: Tobermory
Saki's wicked tale of what happens when a beloved feline is gifted the power of speech--much to the dismay of all the members of a weekend gathering at a country house. Learn more about your ad choice...Show More
2) BRASS Stacks Episod 9: The Mysterious Case of Miss V.
"What is a ghost?" asks this exquisite and little-known story by Virginia Woolf. In a few short pages, Woolf creates a comic, thoughtful, yet ultimately disturbing portrait of the woman always on the ...Show More
3) BRASS Stacks Episode 8: The Storyteller
We turn again to our favorite Stacks writer, Saki, for this deliciously subversive tale of a unconventional fable shared with some rambunctious children on a train ride. Learn more about your ad choic...Show More
4) BRASS Stacks 7: Humiliation
The great French writer Maupassant is the author of this charming tale recounting an afternoon of idle gossip between two ladies of leisure, and of a mistress/servant relationship that goes quite wron...Show More
5) BRASS Stacks 1: Lord Dunsany
We begin this special series of readings from great Victorian and Edwardian authors with two very early stories by poet, playwright and fantasist Lord Dunsany. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...Show More
6) BRASS Stacks 6: The Snowman
The Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale “The Snowman” tells the melancholy story of a snowman’s ill-suited romance with a kitchen stove. Read by special BRASS Stacks guest Billie Wildrick in a co-produ...Show More
7) BRASSS Stacks 5: Christmas Every Day
William Dean Howell’s 1892 story about a little girl who wished it could be Christmas every day has an interesting moral or two for adults as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...Show More
8) Brass Stacks 4: The Disintegrator Machine
Professor Challenger meets an inventor whose creation may prove so catastrophic as to imperil the entire British Empire, in this classic short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Read by acclaimed voice ...Show More
9) BRASS Stacks 3: When the Door Was Opened
A witty parable about the problem of assuming too much about one’s spouse, “When the Door Opened” was written by the Irish author Sarah Grand, one of the pioneers of fiction dealing with the “New Woma...Show More
10) BRASS Stacks 2: Oh Whistle, And I'll Come to You, My Lad
In this special seasonal BRASS Stacks, our Lord Brass (Charles Leggett) reads M.R. James' wonderfully spooky tale of a academic's unlucky find at an archaeologicall dig--and what finds him after. Lear...Show More