Beyond Texas with W.F. Strong
Episodes
59 episodes
Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
Hills LIke White Elephants is Hemingway's most famous and most discussed short story. And it is short. Less than ten minutes long in audio form. And it is a story that can be argued over with great fervor on all sides because ...
The Most Dangerous Game
The Most Dangerous Game is riveting short story by Richard Connell published originally in 1924. It won an O´Henry award shortly after it was first published. Orson Welles adapted it for broadcast on CBS radio in 1943. It has been a...
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The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant wrote some 300 short stories in his short life. Most he wrote within a ten year period. This story, the Necklace, is generally considered his best known short story.
The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
Often listed as one of the top ten best short stories ever written in America, The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, by Ambrose Bierce remains, even today, a particularly haunting story for everyone who has ever read it, or seen...
Platero y Yo
Excerpts from the extraordinarily poignant book by Nobel Prize winning Spanish author, Juan Ramón Jiménez. I call it a children´s book for adults, but children can certainly enjoy it, too. Like all great literature, it works on man...
To Build a Fire by Jack London
Jack London's To Build a Fire is often listed among the top 100 of best short stories ever written. Now that North America and Europe are in the deep freeze of winter, it seemed to me a great time, given the natural ambiance, to share Lon...
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The Boys in the Boat - Interview with author Daniel Brown
An interview with best-selling author Daniel Brown concerning his book, now a movie, The Boys in the Boat. This interview is ten years old but has fresh relevance given that the book is once again a best-seller, thanks to Clooney's film. ...
Julius Caesar: Part II. The Assassination
Part Two of our conversation with Lindsay Powell, an expert on classical Roman history and co-author of a book about Julius Caesar, as well as a solo author of a book about his successor, Caesar Augustus. In this episode we talk about the...
The Yellow Wall Paper
A reading and brief analysis of the one of the best short stories of all time, "The Yellow Wall Paper," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Contact: wfstrongpodcast@gmail.com
Bill Steele, Explorer and Mapper of the Deepest Cave in the Western Hemisphere
Interview with Bill Steele, a man National Geographic has called one of the world's leading speleologists, tells all about his 30 years of exploring the deepest cave in the Western Hemisphere, Huautla, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. &nbs...
Scratch Beginnings
Adam Shepherd arrived by bus at midnight in Charleston , SC, with only $25.00 in his pocket. He gave himself one year to pull himself up by his bootstraps. Relying only on his high school diploma and with no skilled labor background...
Julius Caesar: Part I.
A good long informative chat about Julius Caesar with author, Lindsay Powell, who is an expert on Julius Caesar and who has just released a new book on the life of the great politician and military leader.
Three Red Marbles
This is a beautiful very short story for the holidays. The author is anonymous.
The Gospel According to Mark by Jorge Luis Borges
Sharing a wonderful, now iconic short story, by Jorge Luis Borges, It is representative of the sort of mesmerizing short-stories that he regularly produced in the middle of the last century.
What Internet Data can Teach us About Life, the Universe and Everything
A conversation with Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, Elad Yom-Tov, about big data and what we are learning from it that can improve our lives in many ways.
PART II of Spare Parts with Paul Craddock
Part II of my interview with the incomparable Paul Craddock, author of Spare Parts: the story of the history of transplant surgery.
Spare Parts by Paul Craddock
An interview with Paul Craddock, PhD, concerning his page-turner of a best-selling book about the fascinating history of transplant surgery.
Mariupol: One Woman's Story of Survival and Escape.
This is Alyona's story of surviving the Russian bombing and shelling of her beloved Mariupol and her harrowing escape to safer territory. You can write to her here: alenarromanovaa@gmail.comwfstrongpodcast@gmail.com
Saint-Exupéry Part II
The second half of Saint-Exupéry and Prevot's struggle to survive the brutal challenges of the Libyan desert after they're plane crashed there.
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Stranded in the North African Desert: Part 1
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, along with his co-pilot and mechanic, Andre Prevot, crashed in the North African Desert in 1935 while trying to set an air speed record between Paris and Saigon. They survived the crash, but barely survived the d...
Carville - America's only National Facility for the Treatment of Leprosy
An interview with former NPR reporter, Pam Fessler concerning her captivating book,Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice. To comment write to: wfstrongpodcast@gmail.com
Hemingway's Christmas at the Roof of the World (in the Swiss Alps)
This is Hemingways' famous Switzerland Christmas post which he wrote for the Toronto Star in 1923 when he was 24 years old. He was on a skiing holiday with his first wife Hadley and his best friend, Chink. I posted it a...
WILD with Cheryl Strayed. An Interview
An interview with the gifted memoirist, Cherly Strayed, about her now classic nonfiction work, WILD, which has been a decade long bestseller and popular movie starring Reese Witherspoon. To comment write to: wfstrongpodcast@...
A Gentleman in Moscow - Interview with Amor Towles
My interview with Amor Towles about his exquisitely flawless novel, A Gentleman in Moscow. To comment write to: wfstrongpodcast@gmail.com
The Premature Burial - Halloween Edition
Edgar Allan Poe's frightening tale about premature burials is a perfect Halloween treat. My suggestion is that you listen to it in the dark, lying on your bed in silence, if possible. as you know, the right ambiance is everything wi...
