Latest Fiction History Podcast Episodes
RAS #648 - The Limping Ghost
Ron's Amazing Stories - July 11, 2024 14:52 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWelcome to Ron's Amazing Stories, the podcast that takes you on a journey through the world of stories and storytelling. In this episode, we'll delve into the origins of the detective genre, from its roots in the Industrial Revolution to the creation of iconic characters like Sherlock Holmes. We...
RAS #647 - The Last Objective
Ron's Amazing Stories - July 04, 2024 15:41 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsOn Ron’s Amazing Stories Sylvia Shults returns to help Ron unravel a creepy story sent in by listener Mia Willow from Victoria, Australia. Mia has an encounter with orbs and a shadow creature in the same night. What could it mean? Tune in and hear what Sylvia and Ron think about it. Our featured ...
LTP Selects: The Illustrious Client (1925)
Lighting the Pipes - July 03, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJosh's selection for this year's "Sherlock Selects" returns us to The Illustrious Client. Marked by the predatory exploits of a dastardly Baron, this later Conan Doyle story (1925) spins its archetypal threads of good vs. evil while promoting emergent themes in context of suffragette and female ...
Nathaniel Philbrick: A City, A Siege, A Revolution
Dialogue with Marcia Franklin - June 30, 2024 06:30 - 29 minutesMarcia Franklin talks with maritime writer and historian Nathaniel Philbrick, the speaker at the 2013 Idaho Humanities Council Distinguished Humanities Lecture. Philbrick is the author of numerous books, including most recently "Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution," which looks at the de...
RAS #646 - The Burro That Had No Name
Ron's Amazing Stories - June 27, 2024 14:41 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWelcome to Ron’s Amazing Stories where we bring you thrilling tales from the past and present. In this episode, we have a captivating lineup of stories sure to keep you on the edge of your seat. First up, we'll start with a review of Louis L'Amour's captivating novel, The High Graders. This hidde...
Eliza Griswold: Amity and Prosperity
Dialogue with Marcia Franklin - June 23, 2024 06:30 - 29 minutesJournalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eliza Griswold talks with host Marcia Franklin about her book Amity and Prosperity, which investigates the effects of fracking in a southwestern Pennsylvania community. The two discuss how Griswold researched the book and the rural-urban divide in Am...
RAS #645 - The Thin Man
Ron's Amazing Stories - June 20, 2024 14:14 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsOn Ron’s Amazing Stories this week we have a tale from the OTR series Lux Radio Theater titled The Thin Man. It originally broadcast on June 8th, 1936, and is based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett. This is not a hard-boiled detective story, as many might assume. Instead, it's a delightful comedy...
Lois Leveen: A Spy in the Confederate White House
Dialogue with Marcia Franklin - June 16, 2024 06:30 - 28 minutesDialogue host Marcia Franklin talks with historical novelist Lois Leveen about two of her works: The Secrets of Mary Bowser, about a former slave who was a spy in the Confederate White House, and Juliet's Nurse, which imagines the life of the nurse in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Franklin as...
Andrew Buckley - Havelok
House of Mystery Radio on NBC - June 16, 2024 04:10 - 32 minutes ★★★ - 100 ratingsEliana Havelock is a woman with no past, whose determination to bring down a Karachi arms dealer catches the attention of the British Secret Intelligence Service. MI-6 is fractured, with many of its covert programs dissolved or disbanded. When Eliana presents the opportunity to divert an interna...
LTP Noir: Force of Evil (1948)
Lighting the Pipes - June 15, 2024 11:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this installment, Josh presents a clean line through the scandalous phlegm of HUAC and the red scare in Hollywood which served as backdrop for many great film noir productions, including 1948's "Force of Evil". Director Abraham Polonsky fills each frame with atmosphere and suggestive imagery ...
Richard R. Becker Jr. - Third Wheel
House of Mystery Radio on NBC - June 14, 2024 23:08 - 39 minutes ★★★ - 100 ratingsSet in 1982, Third Wheel is the story of a boy who relocates from the Midwest to Las Vegas. Outcast as a newcomer, Brady forges a bond with an older teenage neighbor, Mick. But when Mick invites an ambitious street-level drug dealer into their group, Brady learns that their choices could have da...
Chrissy Hartmann - Cherishing Whiskey's Salvation
House of Mystery Radio on NBC - June 14, 2024 21:45 - 16 minutes ★★★ - 100 ratingsWelcome back to Whiskey! When Charlie Stockton, a retired United States Army colonel and Texas cattle rancher, is presented with his 28-year-old daughter's plans to quit her corporate job to reopen a homeless shelter, he is faced with the toughest challenge of his life. With his marriage alread...
Peter Colt - The Judge
House of Mystery Radio on NBC - June 13, 2024 23:00 - 27 minutes ★★★ - 100 ratingsBoston, 1985. With the late December cold comes a new job for ex-military operative turned private investigator Andy Roark. Boston judge Ambrose Messer is being blackmailed, and he needs Roark's help to stop the culprit. Messer is judging the bench trial of a chemical company accused of knowing...
RAS #644 - The Hands
Ron's Amazing Stories - June 13, 2024 14:34 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsOn this episode of Ron’s Amazing Stories, we have a jam-packed agenda. We'll kick things off with a review of the new audiobook series Mars Nation. Then, tune in for another thrilling installment of Ghost Stories With Sylvia, where Sylvia Shults reacts to a chilling tale from Kesha Hilton about h...
321: Frank Figliuzzi – Highway Serial Killings Initiative, Long Haul
FBI Retired Case File Review - June 12, 2024 23:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.9K ratingsRetired agent Frank Figliuzzi reviews the FBI’s Highway Serial Killings Initiative, a special unit that tracks the victims of serial murderers picked up at truck stops in one jurisdiction, sexually assaulted and murdered in another, and dumped along a highway in a third location. Frank shares ho...
Thomas Maier - Mafia Spies
House of Mystery Radio on NBC - June 10, 2024 18:25 - 27 minutes ★★★ - 100 ratingsFrom Vegas to Miami to Havana, the shocking connections between the CIA, the mob, and Sinatra’s Rat Pack—with new revelations and details. Mafia Spies is the definitive account of America’s most remarkable espionage plots ever—with CIA agents, mob hitmen, “kompromat” sex, presidential indiscreti...
Eric Liu: Citizen Power
Dialogue with Marcia Franklin - June 09, 2024 06:30 - 29 minutesAs the United States heads for what portends to be a raucous convention season, Dialogue host Marcia Franklin talks with Eric Liu, the founder of Citizen University in Seattle, about whether it’s even possible in a seemingly fractured society to have a civil discussion about politics. Liu, a...
Kathleen Donnelly - Killer Secrets (National Forest K-9 Book 3)
House of Mystery Radio on NBC - June 07, 2024 13:27 - 32 minutes ★★★ - 100 ratingsA small town’s deadly past is exposed in the newest installment of the suspenseful National Forest K-9 series by Kathleen Donnelly. Until an avalanche ripped down a mountainside, exposing a serial killer’s dumping grounds, Antler Valley, Colorado, was a quiet town. Now Forest Service officer Ma...
Mark Pawlosky - Black Bird
House of Mystery Radio on NBC - June 07, 2024 13:26 - 27 minutes ★★★ - 100 ratingsThe pandemic has receded and life in the United States has returned to normal—or that’s what the government insists. So what is causing residents in a remote religious compound in Idaho to drop dead in a grisly fashion? And why are prominent virologists meeting with untimely ends? Something—or ...
RAS #643 - Of All Possible Worlds
Ron's Amazing Stories - June 06, 2024 14:21 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsOn Ron’s Amazing Stories we have a special story from the pages of Galaxy Magazine. Have you ever wondered what time travel could be like? Do you have visions of visiting the past to see events play out in real time? But, what if you had to go to the past and attempt to change a mistake to save t...
320: Mario Tariche and Raquel Cicini - Cocaine Cowboys, Operation RECOIL (Part 2)
FBI Retired Case File Review - June 06, 2024 00:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.9K ratingsIn Part 2 of this two-part episode, retired agents Mario Tariche and Raquel “Rocky” Cicini continue their review of Operation RECOIL, the investigation of Cocaine Cowboys Willy Falcon and Sal Magluta, to include their work with key cooperating witness Marilyn Bonachea. This case was memorialized...
Bruce Robert Coffin & LynnDee Walker - Genreral's Gold
House of Mystery Radio on NBC - June 05, 2024 13:36 - 27 minutes ★★★ - 100 ratingsA treasure so priceless, it's worth killing for… When Mark Hawkins is found dead in a seedy motel, police deem it an accidental overdose. But billionaire computer genius Avery Turner suspects there might be more to the story. Her old friend was on the trail of the legendary General's Gold, and ...
Arthur Kane - The Last Story
House of Mystery Radio on NBC - June 04, 2024 03:59 - 26 minutes ★★★ - 100 ratingsTHE LAST STORY: The Murder of an Investigative Journalist in Las Vegas is an exclusive deep dive into a chilling true tale of sex, ambition, retribution, and homicide. Jeff German, a veteran Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter, was no stranger to controversy or the danger of his wor...
Richard Ford: Language, Love and Life in America
Dialogue with Marcia Franklin - June 02, 2024 06:30 - 29 minutesMarcia Franklin talks with author Richard Ford, who won a Pulitzer Prize for Independence Day, a book in his Frank Bascombe series, and who was nominated for a Pulitzer for his most recent book in the series Let Me Be Frank With You. Ford talks with Franklin about his themes, his writing sty...
LTP 007: Colonel Sun (1968)
Lighting the Pipes - May 30, 2024 19:30 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, our first in a new branch exploring the continuation novels of James Bond, we look down the literary gunbarrel at "Colonel Sun", written by Robert Markham (Kingsley Amis). Published four years after Ian Fleming's death, Markham's compelling adventure situates agent 007 in a new ...
RAS #642 - Hitch Hike Poker
Ron's Amazing Stories - May 30, 2024 14:45 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsRon’s Amazing Stories is back with a brand new look and feel for the Audible audiobook review segment. This time around, the focus will be less on advertising and more on providing in-depth reviews of the books being discussed. The first book up for review is Weird Things in History and Why the H...
319: Mario Tariche and Raquel Cicini - Cocaine Cowboys, Operation RECOIL (Part 1)
FBI Retired Case File Review - May 30, 2024 04:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.9K ratingsIn Part 1 of this two-part episode, retired agents Mario Tariche and Raquel “Rocky” Cicini review their investigation of Willy Falcon, Sal Magluta, aka The Cocaine Cowboys and others, which resulted in the dismantlement of the largest drug trafficking organization in South Florida and provided t...
Kevin Powers: The Yellow Birds
Dialogue with Marcia Franklin - May 26, 2024 06:30 - 29 minutesMarcia Franklin interviews author Kevin Powers, a veteran of the war in Iraq. His first work, "The Yellow Birds," was a finalist for the National Book Award. The novel depicts the friendship between two American soldiers in Iraq trying to keep each other alive, and the emotional journey of o...
RAS #641 - CBS Radio Workshop
Ron's Amazing Stories - May 23, 2024 14:32 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsThis week's Ron's Amazing Stories podcast features two episodes from the OTR series CBS Radio Workshop. The first story, Colloquy #1 - Interview with William Shakespeare, explores the mystery of Shakespeare's identity. The second story, The Ballad Of The Iron Horse, presents a unique perspective ...
Rebecca (1938)
Lighting the Pipes - May 22, 2024 20:30 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 2 ratings"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." Thus starts the troubled narrative of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 classic novel. Part mystery story, part Gothic romance, Rebecca manipulates features of both genres to impressive effect. It offers readers a haunting depiction of tormented character...
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