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He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></description><atom:link href="https://www.spreaker.com/show/7081021/episodes/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><language>en</language><category>Books</category><copyright>Copyright Humorous Fiction Genre</copyright><image><url>https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7e85a2a76b246efe6d563160a56ce8bb.jpg</url><title>Mr. Mulliner Speaking</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mr-mulliner-speaking--7081021</link></image><lastBuildDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:10:31 +0000</lastBuildDate><itunes:author>P. G. 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Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. 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In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74405219</guid><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:01:10 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74405219/talks_by_abdul_baha_given_in_paris_abdu_l_baha_abba_s.mp3" length="185885112" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>P. G. 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He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. 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Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74372339</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:01:16 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74372339/5167_down_south_or_yacht_adventure_in_florida_oliver_optic.mp3" length="193391676" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>P. G. 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He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. 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In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74347437</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:01:12 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74347437/20836_bring_the_jubilee_ward_moore.mp3" length="174980378" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>P. G. 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He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>21851</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7e85a2a76b246efe6d563160a56ce8bb.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Mr. Mulliner Speaking-P. G. Wodehouse</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/mr-mulliner-speaking-p-g-wodehouse--74319119</link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74319119</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:01:22 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74319119/mr_mulliner_speaking_p_g_wodehouse.mp3" length="148083665" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>P. G. 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He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. 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In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74296436</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:01:19 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74296436/old_maids_club_israel_zangwill.mp3" length="274216071" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>P. G. 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He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. 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Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74273208</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:01:29 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74273208/one_act_play_collection_015_various.mp3" length="184081051" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>P. G. 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He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>22986</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7e85a2a76b246efe6d563160a56ce8bb.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)-Jerome K. Jerome</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/three-men-in-a-boat-to-say-nothing-of-the-dog-jerome-k-jerome--74253812</link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74253812</guid><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:01:13 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74253812/three_men_in_a_boat_to_say_nothing_of_the_dog_jerome_k_jerome.mp3" length="191627367" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>P. G. 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He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>23930</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7e85a2a76b246efe6d563160a56ce8bb.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Happy Days-A. A. Milne</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/happy-days-a-a-milne--74235512</link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74235512</guid><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:01:11 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74235512/happy_days_a_a_milne.mp3" length="238030751" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>P. G. Wodehouse</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>29724</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7e85a2a76b246efe6d563160a56ce8bb.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Prefect's Uncle-P. G. Wodehouse</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/prefect-s-uncle-p-g-wodehouse--74217615</link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74217615</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:01:21 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74217615/prefect_s_uncle_p_g_wodehouse.mp3" length="129302761" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>P. G. 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He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>16147</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7e85a2a76b246efe6d563160a56ce8bb.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Soren Kierkegaard, Various Readings-Various</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/soren-kierkegaard-various-readings-various--74185043</link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74185043</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:01:17 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74185043/soren_kierkegaard_various_readings_various.mp3" length="128630190" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>P. G. 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He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>16062</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7e85a2a76b246efe6d563160a56ce8bb.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Phantastes A Faerie Romance for Men and Women (version 2)-George MacDonald</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/phantastes-a-faerie-romance-for-men-and-women-version-2-george-macdonald--74153900</link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74153900</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:01:30 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74153900/8447_phantastes_a_faerie_romance_for_men_and_women_version_2_george_macdonald.mp3" length="219632934" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>P. G. 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He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>27426</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7e85a2a76b246efe6d563160a56ce8bb.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Tales of St. Austin's-P. G. Wodehouse</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/tales-of-st-austin-s-p-g-wodehouse--74095412</link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74095412</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:01:34 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74095412/tales_of_st_austin_s_p_g_wodehouse.mp3" length="144864825" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>P. G. 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He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>18090</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7e85a2a76b246efe6d563160a56ce8bb.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Foolish Dictionary-Charles Wayland Towne</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/foolish-dictionary-charles-wayland-towne--74069548</link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74069548</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:03:26 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74069548/foolish_dictionary_charles_wayland_towne.mp3" length="50743037" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>P. G. Wodehouse</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>6337</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7e85a2a76b246efe6d563160a56ce8bb.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Coming of Bill (or Their Mutual Child; or The White Hope, Version 2)-P. G. Wodehouse</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/coming-of-bill-or-their-mutual-child-or-the-white-hope-version-2-p-g-wodehouse--74041831</link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74041831</guid><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:03:04 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74041831/coming_of_bill_or_their_mutual_child_or_the_white_hope_version_2_p_g_wodehouse.mp3" length="247716265" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>P. G. Wodehouse</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>30933</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7e85a2a76b246efe6d563160a56ce8bb.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Finland and the Tsars, 1809-1899-Joseph R. Fisher</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/finland-and-the-tsars-1809-1899-joseph-r-fisher--74016769</link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74016769</guid><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:02:45 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74016769/finland_and_the_tsars_1809_1899_joseph_r_fisher.mp3" length="243906414" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>P. G. Wodehouse</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>30457</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7e85a2a76b246efe6d563160a56ce8bb.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Rachel Gray-Julia Kavanagh</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/rachel-gray-julia-kavanagh--73988662</link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73988662</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:02:54 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73988662/10733_rachel_gray_julia_kavanagh.mp3" length="152701970" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>P. G. Wodehouse</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>19069</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7e85a2a76b246efe6d563160a56ce8bb.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Not George Washington-P. G. Wodehouse</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/not-george-washington-p-g-wodehouse--73963797</link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73963797</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:02:56 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73963797/not_george_washington_p_g_wodehouse.mp3" length="146790379" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>P. G. 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He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>18331</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7e85a2a76b246efe6d563160a56ce8bb.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Faces and Places-Sir Henry W. Lucy</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/faces-and-places-sir-henry-w-lucy--73939094</link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73939094</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:02:52 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73939094/faces_and_places_sir_henry_w_lucy.mp3" length="201484224" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>P. G. Wodehouse</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>25160</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7e85a2a76b246efe6d563160a56ce8bb.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Histories, Volume 1-Polybius</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/histories-volume-1-polybius--73910753</link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73910753</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:02:51 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73910753/histories_volume_1_polybius.mp3" length="182097178" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>P. G. Wodehouse</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>22739</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7e85a2a76b246efe6d563160a56ce8bb.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>On Subjects Connected with the Christian Ministry-Richard Cecil</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/on-subjects-connected-with-the-christian-ministry-richard-cecil--73884218</link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73884218</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:02:42 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73884218/on_subjects_connected_with_the_christian_ministry_richard_cecil.mp3" length="38470420" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>P. G. Wodehouse</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>4804</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7e85a2a76b246efe6d563160a56ce8bb.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>History of the United States, Vol. VI-Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/history-of-the-united-states-vol-vi-charles-austin-beard-mary-ritter-beard--73859131</link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73859131</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:02:21 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73859131/history_of_the_united_states_vol_vi_charles_austin_beard_mary_ritter_beard.mp3" length="133099771" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>P. G. Wodehouse</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>16621</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7e85a2a76b246efe6d563160a56ce8bb.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Amoretti A sonnet sequence-Edmund Spenser</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/amoretti-a-sonnet-sequence-edmund-spenser--73839115</link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73839115</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:02:54 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73839115/amoretti_a_sonnet_sequence_edmund_spenser.mp3" length="53763461" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>P. G. 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He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>6713</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7e85a2a76b246efe6d563160a56ce8bb.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Black Cat Vol. 03 No. 04 January 1898-Various</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/black-cat-vol-03-no-04-january-1898-various--73818693</link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73818693</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:04:11 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73818693/black_cat_vol_03_no_04_january_1898_various.mp3" length="53693270" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>P. G. 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He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>6705</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7e85a2a76b246efe6d563160a56ce8bb.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Foxe's Book of Martyrs Vol 2: Lives and Deaths of Early Christian and Protestant Martyrs-Forbush, Foxe</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/foxe-s-book-of-martyrs-vol-2-lives-and-deaths-of-early-christian-and-protestant-martyrs-forbush-foxe--73789429</link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73789429</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:25:30 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73789429/foxe_s_book_of_martyrs_vol_2_lives_and_deaths_of_early_christian_and_protestant_martyrs_forbush_foxe.mp3" length="274822740" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>P. G. Wodehouse</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>34318</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7e85a2a76b246efe6d563160a56ce8bb.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Mr. Mulliner Speaking - P. G. Wodehouse</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/mr-mulliner-speaking-p-g-wodehouse--73330762</link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner Speaking by P. G. Wodehouse invites listeners into the charming world of Mr. Mulliner, a character whose delightful anecdotes and witty observations capture the essence of human folly and social quirks. This collection of stories showcases Wodehouse's signature humor and masterful storytelling, making it a timeless exploration of life's absurdities. The themes of love, friendship, and the comedic intricacies of everyday life resonate just as strongly today, reminding us of the joy found in laughter and the importance of camaraderie. With its clever prose and engaging narratives, this audiobook is a delightful escape that continues to entertain and uplift audiences across generations.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73330762</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:56:30 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73330762/mr_mulliner_speaking_p_g_wodehouse.mp3" length="148083665" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>P. G. Wodehouse</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Mr. Mulliner Speaking by P. G. Wodehouse invites listeners into the charming world of Mr. Mulliner, a character whose delightful anecdotes and witty observations capture the essence of human folly and social quirks. This collection of stories...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner Speaking by P. G. Wodehouse invites listeners into the charming world of Mr. Mulliner, a character whose delightful anecdotes and witty observations capture the essence of human folly and social quirks. This collection of stories showcases Wodehouse's signature humor and masterful storytelling, making it a timeless exploration of life's absurdities. The themes of love, friendship, and the comedic intricacies of everyday life resonate just as strongly today, reminding us of the joy found in laughter and the importance of camaraderie. With its clever prose and engaging narratives, this audiobook is a delightful escape that continues to entertain and uplift audiences across generations.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>18492</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7e85a2a76b246efe6d563160a56ce8bb.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Mr Mulliner Speaking - P G Wodehouse</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/mr-mulliner-speaking-p-g-wodehouse--72327814</link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72327814</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:42:48 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72327814/mr_mulliner_speaking_p_g_wodehouse.mp3" length="147931468" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>P. G. Wodehouse</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Mr. Mulliner, the chief raconteur of the Angler's Rest, unbosoms himself of nine more stories concerning the doings of his relatives, slightly apropos of various topics being discussed at the bar. In this volume we meet, among others, his nephew Archibald (“Even at the Drones Club, where the average of intellect is not high, it was often said of Archibald that, had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”), his cousin Cedric whom he never liked (“‘Tan shoes are not worn with morning clothes,’ said Cedric in a low, grave voice. He was deeply shaken.”) and his cousin once removed, Roberta (better known as Bobbie) Wickham (“‘Now, isn’t that an extraordinary thing?’ said Miss Wickham, meditatively. ‘Here have I lived all these years and never thought of getting a snake! ….There are the most tremendous possibilities in a snake. The diner-out’s best friend. Pop it on the table after the soup and be Society’s pet-’”) This book also contains what may, in the opinion of this reader, be the most evocative pair of sentences in the history of the written English language: “At this moment, however, the drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. It was, as a matter of fact, only his hat dropping to the floor, but in the highly nervous state of mind into which he had been plunged by recent events it nearly deafened him.” - Summary by Zach Hoyt]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>18492</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>archibald,cedric,humorous,mulliner,pair,said,snake,speaking,wickham,wodehouse</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7e85a2a76b246efe6d563160a56ce8bb.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item></channel></rss>
