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KacheliTV — the world's stories, read aloud.Looking for a story to fall asleep to, to ride with on a long drive, or to share at bedtime? Start here.We read the folk tales and classics of every culture on Earth — complete and unabridged, never excerpts — in fresh English translations, performed by our cast of voices. The fairy tales of Ireland and Japan. The legends of India and Nigeria. Jamaica, the Netherlands, the Cherokee, the Norse — and the Russia of Pushkin and Krylov. The stories your grandmother knew, and stories from shores you've never heard — every culture in the spotlight, no one missed.New tales arrive every week. Pick a shelf, press play, and let the world's grandmothers talk you to sleep.Free always — here and on every podcast app. Prefer no commercials? Find us on Apple Podcasts.From The Dog You Chose LLC, Gulfport, Florida. Public-domain sources, told with respect.Find us:YouT
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Voyages to Other Worlds — Part 3: The Time Machine — Part Two
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Voyages to Other Worlds — Part 3: The Time Machine — Part Two | KacheliTV World ClassicsThe Time Machine continues. In Part One of the telling, the Time Traveller rode his machine to the year 802,701, found the little Eloi in their garden world above the Thames, and made a friend of Weena, whom he pulled from the river. In this second part he wakes to find the machine gone — and the search for it, and for the meaning of the bronze doors beneath the White Sphinx, drives him to the conclusion he resists with all his reason: that the beautiful, helpless Eloi are not the only heirs of mankind, and that the other race, which comes out only at night, holds both his machine and the secret of that world. Here are chapters six, seven and eight of the novel: the sunset of mankind, a sudden shock, and the explanation. The telling continues in Part Four of Voyages to Other Worlds.Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.Chapters0:35 Voyages to Other Worlds — Part Three2:51 Chapter Six — The Sunset of Mankind19:46 Chapter Seven — A Sudden Shock36:01 Chapter Eight — Explanation67:09 Closing ThemeNarrated by Felix.The text is told from the Project Gutenberg text of Wells's 1895 novel. Four brief passages in Chapter Seven, in which the Traveller handles the little people roughly in his frenzy, are not read; two period racial terms in Chapter Eight are given in neutral modern wording. Nothing else is altered, and the period descriptive terms of 1895 otherwise stand as printed.Music: 'Gangster Piano Symphony' (instrumental) opens and closes the programme and sounds between the chapters; 'Mountain Revelation' plays as the quiet background bed under the reading.Source text: H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895), text from Project Gutenberg eBook #35, public domain. Part Two of the telling (chapters VI–VIII); the telling runs to four parts in all.Recorded for KacheliTV.KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.
- Today37 min
Instruments of the World — Part 2: The Ancient World II — Egypt & Mesopotamia: Flutes, Sistra, and the Harps of Assyria
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Instruments of the World — Part 2: The Ancient World II — Egypt & Mesopotamia: Flutes, Sistra, and the Harps of AssyriaThe season's journey stays in the ancient world for its second sitting. Egypt completes her band: the long flute the hieroglyphs name Sebi, the little reed pipes with their straw tongues, and mam, the beloved double pipe; then the struck and shaken family — the bronze sistrum, the self-tuning drum, the square tambourine, the cymbals from a musician's coffin. Then the grid crosses the desert to Assyria, where the palace carvings of Nineveh keep a second nation's music: the great pillarless harp with its tuning tassels, walking in procession. And both valleys answer the season's standing question — who made it — the same way: no maker is named.Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.Chapters:0:35 — Introduction: The Ancient World Widens4:11 — The Flute of Egypt8:14 — The Single Pipe and the Double Pipe13:35 — The Sistrum and the Rhythm Instruments20:30 — The Harps of Assyria30:35 — No Maker Named34:08 — Close: To Greece and RomeThe episode follows the season's recipe: what the instrument is, where it came from, who the record says made or perfected it, how it travelled, and what the collectors found. Period claims are voiced as the sources give them — attributed, with their doubts kept in the telling: the harp string-counts that will not agree, an estimate offered as an estimate. One strand is left out, and the register states it plainly: F. W. Galpin's essay "The Sumerian Harp of Ur" (1929) passes the season's date gate, but no open lawful copy of it could be located, so under the strict copy rule it is not used — the Assyrian harp material stands on Engel (1864), and the Sumerian harps' maker is stated as the passing sources leave him: unknown. The season's sources are public-domain works only, and no completeness is claimed for the episode or the season. Next in the season: Part 3 — The Ancient World III: Greece and Rome: aulos, lyre, and the water-organ.Music: opening and closing themes from "Before the Pines End"; background bed: "Gangster Piano Symphony", a quiet instrumental under the reading.Source: Carl Engel, The Music of the Most Ancient Nations (1864) — Internet Archive musicofmostancie00enge. Sir J. G. Wilkinson, Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians (1837) — Internet Archive mannerscustomsof02wilk_1. Carl Engel, Musical Instruments (1875) — Project Gutenberg #54537.KacheliTV — World Classics, Read Aloud.
- Today42 min
December Holidays — Part 1
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Six festivals, one darkest month, every table lit. In the premiere of December Holidays, Merry Hearth travels the world's December in feast-date order — from a saint's secret gold in old Myra to the last night of the year in Japan — hearing each festival described by someone who stood close to it: a medieval storyteller, an eyewitness traveller, a first-century historian, an Icelandic saga-writer, and a resident writer in Matsue.Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.THE FEASTS0:49 St. Nicholas Day (December 6) — The Golden Legend, the Life of St. Nicholas: the gift of gold for the three daughters, and the ships of wheat in the famine.7:55 Las Posadas (December 16–24) — Frances Calderón de la Barca, Life in Mexico (1843): the last night of the Posadas at the Marquesa's house in Mexico City.13:03 Saturnalia (December 17–23) — J. G. Frazer, The Golden Bough (1922): masters and slaves change places at Rome's feast of Saturn.21:10 Hanukkah (25 Kislev) — Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews: the temple cleansed, the lamps relit, and the festival of Lights founded.25:47 Yule (midwinter) — Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla: Hakon the Good's Yule feast at Throndhjem, and the law that every man brew his ale.29:31 Omisoka (December 31) — Lafcadio Hearn, "Two Strange Festivals" (1894): the Japanese New Year in Matsue — its straw ropes, pine gates, and offerings.Read by Merry Hearth, of the Christmas Company. Opening carol: "Deck the Halls." Closing carol: "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen." No music plays under the readings: in the Christmas seasons the carols sing at the open and the close, and the stories hold the middle alone.December Holidays is KacheliTV's season of the world's December festivals, told from period sources that pass the same two keys as the whole catalogue: printed by 1929, by makers gone by 1949. KacheliTV — the world's folk tales and classics, read aloud. Old stories, new meanings.
- Today34 min
Christmas Classics — Part 1
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Christmas Classics — Part 1The premiere of KacheliTV's Christmas Classics season: five Christmas treasures, read by the Christmas Company. Clement Clarke Moore's poem that gave Santa Claus his reindeer; Mark Twain's letter from Santa Claus himself, written for his little daughter; the most famous newspaper editorial ever printed, answering a child's question in The New York Sun of 1897; O. Henry's tale of two foolish, wise gifts; and Raymond MacDonald Alden's story of the chimes that would not ring for a king's gold but rang for a child's smallest coin. Sung carols open and close the episode; while a story is being read, no music plays — only the telling.Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.In this episode:00:00 Opening carol — "O Come, All Ye Faithful"00:40 Introduction00:52 A Visit from St. Nicholas — Clement Clarke Moore, read by Candlewick Carol04:11 A Letter from Santa Claus — Mark Twain, read by Tinsel Fox07:15 Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus — Francis Pharcellus Church, read by Ember Herald10:41 The Gift of the Magi — O. Henry, read by Merry Hearth23:20 Why the Chimes Rang — Raymond MacDonald Alden, read by Sugarplum Lark33:53 Closing carol — "Silent Night"A note on "Yes, Virginia": it is not a story but an editorial — The New York Sun's unsigned answer, written by Francis Pharcellus Church and printed on 21 September 1897, to eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon's letter asking whether Santa Claus is real. It is read here whole, her letter first, as it was printed.Read by the Christmas Company: Merry Hearth (host, and "The Gift of the Magi"), Candlewick Carol, Tinsel Fox, Ember Herald, and Sugarplum Lark. Carols from the KacheliTV Christmas pool: "O Come, All Ye Faithful" to open and "Silent Night" to close, sung; no music plays under the readings.Sources, all public domain: Moore, "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (1823; text of Poems, 1844) — Wikisource. Twain, "A Letter from Santa Claus" (1875) — Wikisource. Church, "Is There a Santa Claus?" (The New York Sun, 1897) — Wikisource. O. Henry, "The Gift of the Magi" (1905), from The Four Million — Project Gutenberg #2776. Alden, "Why the Chimes Rang" (1906), from Why the Chimes Rang and Other Stories (1924) — Internet Archive.KacheliTV — World Classics, Read Aloud.
- Today42 min
Creator Books — Sixteen Nights Across the World, Part 4
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Sixteen Nights Across the World is Nick A. Shishkov's novel of sixteen nights in sixteen corners of the world — a journey told one night at a time, framed by a prologue and an epilogue. This Creator Books edition presents the complete novel in four parts, produced in the author's own studio. Part Four completes the novel with Chapters 13 through 16 and the Epilogue, and closes with the book's own end credits.Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.Chapters in this part:0:24 Chapter 138:53 Chapter 1417:01 Chapter 1525:36 Chapter 1633:14 EpilogueWritten by Nick A. Shishkov. Narrated by Benedetto. Music: "Winter Palace Waltz 2", from the KacheliTV studio pool.Creator Books is the KacheliTV season for works by the channel's own creators. KacheliTV — the world's folk tales and classics, read aloud. More at kachelitv.com, and on Apple Podcasts (search KacheliTV).
- Today33 min
Creator Books — Sixteen Nights Across the World, Part 3
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Sixteen Nights Across the World is Nick A. Shishkov's novel of sixteen nights in sixteen corners of the world — a journey told one night at a time, framed by a prologue and an epilogue. This Creator Books edition presents the complete novel in four parts, produced in the author's own studio. Part Three continues the journey with Chapters 9 through 12.Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.Chapters in this part:0:24 Chapter 99:34 Chapter 1017:30 Chapter 1125:29 Chapter 12Written by Nick A. Shishkov. Narrated by Benedetto. Music: "Waltz for One Double Bass 2", from the KacheliTV studio pool.Creator Books is the KacheliTV season for works by the channel's own creators. KacheliTV — the world's folk tales and classics, read aloud. More at kachelitv.com, and on Apple Podcasts (search KacheliTV).
- Today36 min
Creator Books — Sixteen Nights Across the World, Part 2
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Sixteen Nights Across the World is Nick A. Shishkov's novel of sixteen nights in sixteen corners of the world — a journey told one night at a time, framed by a prologue and an epilogue. This Creator Books edition presents the complete novel in four parts, produced in the author's own studio. Part Two continues the journey with Chapters 5 through 8.Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.Chapters in this part:0:24 Chapter 510:55 Chapter 619:24 Chapter 728:14 Chapter 8Written by Nick A. Shishkov. Narrated by Benedetto. Music: "Vinterljus i Dalarna 2", from the KacheliTV studio pool.Creator Books is the KacheliTV season for works by the channel's own creators. KacheliTV — the world's folk tales and classics, read aloud. More at kachelitv.com, and on Apple Podcasts (search KacheliTV).
- Today42 min
Creator Books — Sixteen Nights Across the World, Part 1
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Sixteen Nights Across the World is Nick A. Shishkov's novel of sixteen nights in sixteen corners of the world — a journey told one night at a time, framed by a prologue and an epilogue. This Creator Books edition presents the complete novel in four parts, produced in the author's own studio. Part One carries the Prologue and the first four chapters.Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.Chapters in this part:0:24 Prologue7:52 Chapter 117:28 Chapter 226:15 Chapter 334:51 Chapter 4Written by Nick A. Shishkov. Narrated by Benedetto. Music: "Jardin au Clair de Lune 2", from the KacheliTV studio pool.Creator Books is the KacheliTV season for works by the channel's own creators. KacheliTV — the world's folk tales and classics, read aloud. More at kachelitv.com, and on Apple Podcasts (search KacheliTV).
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About KacheliTV
KacheliTV — the world's stories, read aloud.Looking for a story to fall asleep to, to ride with on a long drive, or to share at bedtime? Start here.We read the folk tales and classics of every culture on Earth — complete and unabridged, never excerpts — in fresh English translations, performed by our cast of voices. The fairy tales of Ireland and Japan. The legends of India and Nigeria. Jamaica, the Netherlands, the Cherokee, the Norse — and the Russia of Pushkin and Krylov. The stories your grandmother knew, and stories from shores you've never heard — every culture in the spotlight, no one missed.New tales arrive every week. Pick a shelf, press play, and let the world's grandmothers talk you to sleep.Free always — here and on every podcast app. Prefer no commercials? Find us on Apple Podcasts.From The Dog You Chose LLC, Gulfport, Florida. Public-domain sources, told with respect.Find us:YouT
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