The Classic Tales Podcasts and Audiobooks

After wrapping up The Gods of Mars , B.J. Harrison and The Classic Tales Premium Podcast bring us David Copperfield , by Charles Dickens .  This book was released as a full novel in 1850, after being published serially the two previous years.  The actual title of the book is, The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account) .  As you probably know, Dickens got paid by the word. Dickens said that, like many parents, he had a favorite child, "and his name is David Copperfield ."  It is also B.J.'s all time favorite book.  If you ask him today, "What's your favorite book?"   He'll say, " David Copperfield, of course!"  If you'd asked him the same question ten years ago, he would have said, "Why, it is David Copperfield !"  If you ask him in five years.... well OK.  You get the idea. Why is this his favorite boo...

Last Friday, marked the 6th anniversary of B.J. Harrison's The Classic Tales Podcast .  This gives me the perfect opportunity to write about some of my favorite stories he has produced during the many years I've listened to the Podcast. I am trying to remember what the first story I listened to was, I think it was Arthur Conan Doyle's " The Speckled Band ."  Although I had read that story a bunch of times, B.J. really made it come alive to me.  Ever since then, each time I read a Sherlock Holmes story, it is his version of the sleuth I hear in my head. Also, if you haven't heard B.J.'s  Jeeves and Wooster you are so missing out.  But don't worry, he has bundled all of the books and stories he's recorded by P.G. Wodehouse for you.  You will love every minute of it and be in constant stitches! But getting to listen to some of my favorite stories is only part of what makes me love this podcast.  There are so many wonderful books and short stori...

This week marks the release of the The Classic Tales Premium Podcast .   This means we get THREE episodes a week, when you count the regular Classic Tales Podcast . BJ Harrison will be releasing two episodes each week of the Premium Podcast as well as the Friday edition of the Classic Tales Podcast we all love and look forward to each week. BJ was really intimidated about the prospect of committing to produce three podcasts a week, but it looks like it will work out just fine.   Just make sure to subscribe and tell all your friends to do so too! How is he managing to produce three podcasts a week, you ask?   He’s figured out a way to " punch record " which basically erases the editing process, so he can get a great recording by using a little more care.  Lucky us! The first work BJ is producing for the Classic Tales Premium Podcast is The Gods of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs .   This is the second installment of Burroughs’ famo...