Audio

Audios

This is a list of all the audio recordings I've made for you (many of them from my "Jim Bucket List" newsletter). Click on the "article" link to see the text of the recording.

Articles suitable for younger readers, and nursery rhymes, are listed separately below.

• Albert Einstein, THE Scientist of the 20th Century (4:02) (article)
• Alexander the Great (4:02) (article)
• Beowulf, an Early English Epic (10:56) (article)
• Botticelli's La Primavera (3:40) (article)
• Cat and the Fiddle, The (2:15) (article)
• Charlemagne's "Mini-Renaissance" (4:57) (article)
• A Christmas Carol (4:28) (article)
• Death of Socrates, The (3:18) (article)
• Dia de los Muertos, The (2:22 (article)
• Don Quixote de la Mancha (6:00) (article)
• European Cave Art (5:47) (article)
• Faerie Queene, The (3:35) (article)
• Galileo, Father of Science (3:11) (article)
• George Washington and the Cherry Tree (2:28) (article)
• Gods, the Planets, and the Days of the Week, The (4:18) (article)
• Great Wheel of the Year, Part I, The (2:10) (article)
• Hero's Journey, The (5:48) (article)
• Hiroshige, Japanese Woodblock Artist (3:23) (article)
• House That Jack Built, The (4:35) (article)
• Jack and Jill (1:32) (article)
• Journals of Charles Darwin, The (17:46) (article)
• Langston Hughes, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance (5:04) (article)
• Legend of Wyatt Earp, The (3:34) (article)
• Marcus Aurelius, Philosopher-Emperor (5:13) (article)
• Mr. Newton's Universe (5:40) (article)
• Odysseus and the Cyclops (4:03) (article)
• Pliny the Elder, an Early Scientist (5:17) (article)
• Percy Jackson, Demigod (3:30) (article)
• Rachel Carson, Conservationist (3:30) (article)
• Seven Wonders of the Ancient World ,The (23:25) (article)
• Systems of the Body, The (6:28) (article)
• This is a Case for Sherlock Holmes! (3:36) (article)
• Tragic Tchaikovsky, The (6:30) (article)
• Treasure Island (3:09) (article)
• Washington Irving, International Best-Seller (9:25) (article)
• You Are Here: Human Taxonomy (16:24) (article)

For Younger Readers

Boy Who Cried Wolf, The, by Aesop (1:57) (article)

Hen that Laid the Golden Egg, The (1:34) (article)

King Alfred and the Cakes (1:51) (article)

King Midas and the Golden Touch by Ovid (2:10) (article)

Man Who Never Laughed Again, The (2:55) (article)

Monkey and the Crocodile, The, from The Panchatantra (2:46) (article)

My Shadow (2:06) (article)

Pecos Bill, American Folk Hero (2:03) (article)

"Rabbit Tricks Coyote" (2:36) (article)

Tortoise and the Hare, The (1:38) (article)

"Read-Aloud" Nursery Rhymes

Baa, Baa, Black Sheep (1:46) (article)

Going to Saint Ives (1:43) (article)

Hickory, Dickory, Dock (2:14) (article)

House That Jack Built, The (4:35) (article)

Jack and Jill (1:32) (article)

Little Boy Blue (1:44) (article)

Monday's Child (1:11) (article)

Old MacDonald Had a Farm (3:40) (article)

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (4:14) (article)