Hijacking History

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An Interview with Claudia, of “Spinster’s Library”

An Interview with Bernadett Nyari: Concert Violinist Extraordinaire

“The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez,” A Sherlock Homes Story

This podcast is South Georgia State College’s contribution to the commemoration of Constitution Day in 2021. In deference to the pandemic there will be no face to face presentation, but this (socially) “distanced learning” opportunity will take its place.       Here, Dr. Rick Reiman looks at the career and contributions to our Constitutional...

Constitution Day 2021 presentation at South Georgia State College:

In this short story by Doyle,  Holmes is near death from an exotic tropical disease?  Or is he?  It seems that he has met his match in the form of a new Moriarty.    Or has he?  You will have to listen to this tale of mystery and mendaciousness–if you dare.

“The Adventures of the Dying Detective,” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Amanda Mehl, actor and co-founder of the Public Citizen Theater (PCT) in Portland, Oregon, is our special guest today on AudiblySpeaking.  She has acted in several productions for the PCT since 2016, including “The Maids,” by Jean Genet (directed by Aaron Filyaw). In our conversation Amanda talks about the challenges of acting in the time...

Actor in the News: Amanda Mehl

On this special episode of the podcast, I speak with Rebecca DuMaine, an exciting jazz singer with the Dave Miller Trio, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. We talk about the musical genre in which she and the Trio specialize, and how it speaks to us in good times and in Covid time, as...

Music Guest: Rebecca DuMaine

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Crooked Man” appeared in 1893 and subsequently in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. It was one of the 19 most popular stories in Doyle’s catalog of favorite Holmes tales. See my audio review of this book on AudiblySpeaking either before or following your listening to this story. And now, experience...

“The Crooked Man,” A Sherlock Holmes Tale

What is this thing…called “white privilege?” Where does it come from and what is it all about?

About White Privilege

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote “The Adventures of the Crooked Man” in 1892. It turned out to rank 15th on his list of 19 favorite short stories. My audio narration of the story will appear soon here on AudiblySpeaking. In this introduction, I analyze and critique the structure of the story and its qualities in...

Coming Soon: “The Adventures of the Crooked Man”

In this classic Fireside Chat, FDR rallies the Nation two days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. One of his finest Fireside Chats, Roosevelt cleverly ties the mission to retaliate against Japan with the effort, not yet widely shared by Americans, to halt the march of fascism in Europe, represented by Hitler and Mussolini....

FDR Fireside Chat, December 9, 1941

Rick Reiman reviews “King Richard,” Michael Dobbs’s just-published micro-history of a selected phase of the Watergate scandal, now approaching its Fiftieth anniversary.

Review: “King Richard,” by Michael Dobbs

In this “tongue in cheek” audio narration, Dr. Reiman portrays Sherlock Holmes as he would have sounded had he lived in 2021, and had he agreed to help my students understand their big assignment of this summer semester. Of course, our course site contains the complete instructions for the assignment. I hope that this will...

Sherlock Holmes Explains the “JFK Assignment”

In this classic short story in the Sherlock Holmes series, Holmes, with the help of Dr. Watson, matches wits with a woman, Irene Adler.  Spoiler alert:  The woman wins. It is one of the few Sherlock Holmes stories in which Holmes fails. And he never forgets it!

Arthur Conan Doyle’s “A Scandal in Bohemia”

The nexus between history and the news is the focus of this podcast by Dr. Rick Reiman

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