Audibly Speaking: Listening to History (duplicate)

Here is my editorial on the Supreme Court’s decision today, June 24, 2022, overturning a Supreme Court decision of nearly fifty years’ standing, and, for the first time, restricting an individual righ

In this early entry in the Sherlock Holmes canon, Doyle has Sherlock Holmes doing most of the talking. That’s unusual in the canon, because it is typically John Watson who tells the story, not Holmes.

What was Watergate all about? What was Nixon guilty of and how was he brought to heel? What are the myths that still encrust the story of Watergate? In this episode, this historian fills in the backgr

In this rather offbeat addition to the Sherlock Holmes Canon, Holmes somehow finds himself on a college campus battling the timeless forces of student cheating. Three students are each suspected of ta

“Juneteenth,” a Podcast Episode for North Square The Emancipation Proclamation, from The Library of Congress

READ FOR YOU BY RICK REIMAN. In this story by Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes must represent a client being blackmailed by the notorious criminal, Charles Augustus Milverton. Once again, Holmes uses the pr

A commemoration for North Square.

Here I share some insights into what I have learned about the hidden Sherlock Holmes, from reading and narrating the Conan Doyle stories. To do this I use one of his most popular stories by way of ill

Once again, as in “A Study in Scarlett,” Arthur Conan Doyle reaches across the pond for material for a Sherlock Holmes story. In this case, it is a short story, about the long reach of the past and th

Read by Rick Reiman, this was Doyle’s anticipated ending to the Sherlock Holmes story, the story that would “finish” Holmes off in the early 1890s, and leave Doyle free to write about other characters

Read for you by Rick Reiman Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes’s Older Brother, who “is” the British Government in the case of the Bruce-Partington Plans

“I think that we are both agreed, Inspector that the fragment of paper in the dead man’s hand, bearing, as it does, the very hour of his death written upon it, is of extreme importance.” -Sherlock Hol

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Richard A. Reiman, host of AudiblySpeaking and author of the article above, narrated this article, published in The Journal of Perpetrator Research, 2(2), 2019, 180-226,  and available as a Create Com

In “The Gloria Scott,” Conan Doyle, through the agency of Sherlock Holmes, explains how Holmes stumbled upon his first case. It is an adventure of characters high and low, and  action turbulent and vi

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In this episode, I both read and annotate Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Adventures of Silver Blaze.” Elsewhere on this site, I have a narration with no paused for annotations. In this new version on this

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A Trailer for Conan Doyle’s “The Yellow Face,” Coming the first Week in April

Complete Recording Below:

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Sherlock Holmes returns to life in this thrilling story by Arthur Conan Doyle.  Doyle had killed off the greatest consulting detective in the world, but the reading public insisted he rethink his plan

Narrating Sherlock Holmes How are the Sherlock Holmes stories ideal for the audio narration format–and how are they ideal for the narrator who wants to learn the art of audio narration?

This is a new recording of the classic Conan Doyle story of Sherlock Holmes, recorded in December 2021 as a Christmas gift to my faithful listeners.

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

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 liste

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,

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 s

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. S

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

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

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 Jap

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.