THE MILLION DOLLAR BOND ROBBERY by AGATHA CHRISTIE
🎙️ PODCAST SHOW NOTES 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales "The Million Dollar Bond Robbery" by Agatha Christie EPISODE DESCRIPTION A million dollars in Liberty Bonds. A sealed cabin on a luxury ocean liner. And a crime so perfectly timed it was over before the ship left port. Poi ...Show more
A MOTHER OF FIVE by BRET HARTE
PODCAST SHOW NOTES 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales "A Mother of Five" by Bret Harte 📋 EPISODE DESCRIPTION (For podcast directories — Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc.) She is nine years old, deeply maternal, and raising five children with fierce devotion in a rough California min ...Show more
A boy is born, fated to be one who brings strife. Two sons seek to outrun a family curse. A wife is spared the grisly fates of her husband and son...only if she will marry the one who committed the atrocities. A daughter is saved from certain death...by judgy ducks. These are the ...Show more
Oh Muses! In this episode we tell the tale of Daedalus the inventor, his son, Icarus, and their escape from imprisonment. We come across old friends, a man with a plan, the mysterious death of rivals, children who won't listen to their parents, and someone tragically falls into t ...Show more
The story of a weaving contest between a goddess and a woman challenging the cruelty and tyranny of the Olympians leads us into three more stories: Pandora's box; the great flood of the ancient Greek world; and the love story of Idas and Marpessa, two people who saw the gods taki ...Show more