Welcome to Just Listen, a celebration of American and English short stories and poetry for your listening pleasure. High school students will happily find many of their literature book selections recorded here, and students with reading challenges will find a ready assist in the audio recordings.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWelcome to Just Listen, a celebration of American and English short stories and poetry for your listening pleasure. High school students will happily find many of their literature book selections recorded here, and students with reading challenges will find a ready assist in the audio recordings.
Just Listen Podcast is hosted by Paul Smethers. The show has published 85 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include ""A Lodging for the Night"" (24 March 2025), ""A Lodging for the Night"" (24 March 2025), and ""The Lady or the Tiger?" and "The Discourager of Hesitancy"" (27 January 2025).
Just Listen Podcast publishes roughly every few months across 85 episodes.
Booking probability for Just Listen Podcast is 23%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Just Listen Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Just Listen Podcast's contact route on record: verified email.
Paul Smethers hosts Just Listen Podcast, a books podcast with 85 episodes published.
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Robert Louis Stevenson, famed author of Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, continues to provoke both hatred and idolatry, and there are now well over a hundred biographical books and essays...
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Robert Louis Stevenson, famed author of Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, continues to provoke both hatred and idolatry, and there are now well over a hundred biographical books and essays...
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“The Lady or the Tiger?” is one of the most anthologized short stories for adolescents and teens, often appearing in literature collections and possessing a unique place in the short story genre: it leaves the ending to...
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“The Lady or the Tiger?” is one of the most anthologized short stories for adolescents and teens, often appearing in literature collections and possessing a unique place in the short story genre: it leaves the ending to...
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Today’s author, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, sought to demonstrate her values as a feminist.
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Today’s author, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, sought to demonstrate her values as a feminist.
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Today’s selections, a group of twenty-five Christmas poems, come from some of the greatest poetic voices of the English language.
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Today’s selections, a group of twenty-five Christmas poems, come from some of the greatest poetic voices of the English language.
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We return today to the fictional town of Jefferson, Mississippi, made somewhat famous by William Faulkner as the locus for many of his short stories.
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We return today to the fictional town of Jefferson, Mississippi, made somewhat famous by William Faulkner as the locus for many of his short stories.
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Today we examine another one of the three hundred short stories written by the French author Guy de Maupassant, who is featured here on Just Listen several times already but a great favorite of this podcast and...
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Today we examine another one of the three hundred short stories written by the French author Guy de Maupassant, who is featured here on Just Listen several times already but a great favorite of this podcast and...
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Today’s author, Mary Lerner, had her 1916 story “Little Selves” published in the September issue of Atlantic Monthly.
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Today’s author, Mary Lerner, had her 1916 story “Little Selves” published in the September issue of Atlantic Monthly.
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"Mademoiselle Fifi" is a short story by Guy de Maupassant.
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"Mademoiselle Fifi" is a short story by Guy de Maupassant.
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One of the things I most enjoy about presenting stories here is the great fun I find in discovering the personal lives of authors. Not only do our authors present us with brilliant literature, but they also give us...
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One of the things I most enjoy about presenting stories here is the great fun I find in discovering the personal lives of authors. Not only do our authors present us with brilliant literature, but they also give us...
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Today’s story, “The Ledge” by Lawrence Sargent Hall, won first place in the 1960 O Henry Prize Collection, and has appeared in more than 30 anthologies.
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Today’s story, “The Ledge” by Lawrence Sargent Hall, won first place in the 1960 O Henry Prize Collection, and has appeared in more than 30 anthologies.
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