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
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 adapted for film several times.
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.
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 the Twilight Zone episode based on the story which Rod Serling aired in 1961.
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 many levels.
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 London's masterpiece.
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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. In this interview Daniel shares the story of how this inspiring saga found him and how he was deeply moved by the then old men who told him, in intimate interviews, about their magical win ...
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 events that led up to the assassination of Caesar and the general incompetence of the assassins in preparing for the power vacuum that would follow. They did not anticipate the chaos of Rome wit...
A reading and brief analysis of the one of the best short stories of all time, "The Yellow Wall Paper," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
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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.
To great photos of Huautla check out peshcaving.org
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 to claim, he had to rise up out of homelessness, get himself an apartment, furnish it, buy a car and put 2500 dollars in savings as a safety net, all within one year. This the story of how he tried ...
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.
This is a beautiful very short story for the holidays. The author is anonymous.
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.
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 my interview with the incomparable Paul Craddock, author of Spare Parts: the story of the history of transplant surgery.
An interview with Paul Craddock, PhD, concerning his page-turner of a best-selling book about the fascinating history of transplant surgery.
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.com
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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.
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 desert. They walked 120 miles and came within hours of dying of thirst and exposure to the unrelenting sun. This is the story, in his words, of how they survived.
An interview with former NPR reporter, Pam Fessler concerning her captivating book,
Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice.
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