Beyond Texas with W.F. Strong
As I already have a podcast produced by the Texas Standard, Stories from Texas, I wanted to launch a new one that would go beyond the limits of where my stories are typically corralled. I'm calling it Beyond Texas so that I can share the many inspirational and astounding stories I know that don't fit the theme I'm most known for. Here you will get me, for better or worse, unabridged.
Episodes
57 episodes
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.
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Season 2025
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Episode 56
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20:24
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...
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Season 2024
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Episode 56
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27:52
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...
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Season 2024
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Episode 55
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22:34
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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Season 2024
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Episode 54
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40:28
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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. ...
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Season 2023
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Episode 53
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28:38
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...
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Season 2023
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Episode 52
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50:10
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
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Season 2023
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Episode 51
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45:21
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...
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Season 2023
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Episode 38
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51:40
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...
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Season 2022
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Episode 37
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19:52
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.
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Season 2022
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Episode 37
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45:43
Three Red Marbles
This is a beautiful very short story for the holidays. The author is anonymous.
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Season 2022
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Episode 36
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4:50
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.
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Season 2022
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Episode 35
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16:12
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.
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Season 2022
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Episode 34
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50:26
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.
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Season 2022
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Episode 33
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20:28
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.
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Season 2022
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Episode 32
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35:31
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
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Season 2022
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Episode 31
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19:22
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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Season 2022
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Episode 30
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23:30
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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...
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Season 2022
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Episode 29
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24:24
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
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Season 2022
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Episode 28
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41:05
Hemingway's Christmas on 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...
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Season 2021
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Episode 27
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10:36
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@...
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Season 2021
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Episode 26
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28:12
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
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Season 2021
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Episode 25
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28:59
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...
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Season 2021
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Episode 24
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16:41
Rilke's Advice for Artists
Rainer Maria Rilke's famous advice to a young poet is great advice for us all, and particularly for young artists, not matter their passion. He advises to look within and tells you how. If you downloaded this episode before 8:00 p.m...
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Season 2021
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Episode 23
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17:16
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
A short biopic of Johnathon Edwards with a focus on his most famous sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. " This was the prototypical "hell fire and brimstone sermon" that became afterwards a popular salvation strategy by priests...
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Season 2021
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Episode 22
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19:04
