Hosted by Barbara Kline · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 13 episodes
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Great Stories Well Told is a storytelling podcast featuring beautifully written works of fiction read aloud by Barbara Kline. From timeless classics to lesser-known literary treasures, each episode offers the pleasure of a carefully crafted story, thoughtfully told.
Barbara Kline hosts Great Stories Well Told, a arts show with 13 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail This story contains scenes of violence, as some classic stories do. Listener discretion is advised In this episode of Great Stories Well Told, we present "Why the Sea is Salt", a traditional tale told in
Send us Fan Mail A statue covered in gold. A small bird with nowhere to go. In Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince, a quiet story unfolds — one of compassion, sacrifice, and the unexpected beauty of giving. The Happy Prince a
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Great Stories Well Told, we present The Magic Shop by H. G. Wells. A father and his young son visit a curious little shop on a London street, filled with tricks, toys, and strange wond
Send us Fan Mail In Frank R. Stockton’s "The Lady, or the Tiger?", a young man stands before a decision that will determine his fate — Two doors. One choice. No second chances. but the greatest mystery lies not behind th
Send us Fan Mail "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) is the star of this episode. I hope that you enjoy it. As a deadly plague spreads across the land, Prince Prospero retreats with his court int
Send us Fan Mail "Princess on the Glass Hill" is a classic Norwegian folktale first published in Norwegian in in the 1840s. It was first translated into English in 1859 by Sir George Webbe Dasent in Popular Tales from th
Send us Fan Mail From Greek mythology, this is the powerful story of Prometheus—the titan who stole fire from the gods and gave it to humanity. In doing so, he changed the course of human life… and sealed his own fate. P
Send us Fan Mail “The Elephant’s Child” by Rudyard Kipling. The Just So Stories were first published in 1902. This story is from the 1912 edition. In this classic tale from Rudyard Kipling, a relentlessly curious young e
Send us Fan Mail Leo Tolstoy's short story “Three Questions” was first published in 1885 as part of the collection What Men Live By, and Other Tales. "The Three Questions" is a story about a king who seeks answers three
Send us Fan Mail Aesop's Fables, are very old stories that are credited to a 6th-century BCE Greek slave named Aesop. In the beginning these were oral tales; early written versions appeared around the 4th century BC or B
Send us Fan Mail "The Skylight Room" from O. Henry's story collection The Four Million was published in 1906. In these stories, O. Henry introduces us to a variety of ordinary people living and working in New York City i
Send us Fan Mail The Cat That Walked by Himself” by Rudyard Kipling This is one of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, a story of the “High and Far-Off Times"— when the wild creatures of the forest were beginning, one by
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Great Stories Well Told — a storytelling podcast for listeners who love timeless tales. In this ad-free podcast, I share fairy tales, fables, folk tales, myths, and classic short fiction — sto
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Great Stories Well Told is hosted by Barbara Kline. The show is categorised under arts (books) and has published 13 episodes.
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