What’s Inside Every Episode
Episode 71 | ANIMAL CRACKERS!
Episode Notes: Three amusingly tall animal tales and adventures from the creators at The Rose Theatre…
Episode 70 | Rose Classic “Fezziwig’s Party” - A Christmas Carol
From “A Christmas Carol” (1843) by Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Past visit Scrooge’s former workplace “Fezziwigs” on Christmas Eve…
Episode 69 | Rose Classic HOLIDAY JAZZ - Live from Chicago (2021)
Your favorite holiday music - recorded live from Chicago …
Episode 68 | “The Last Dream of the Old Oak”
A majestic old oak contemplates the cycle of life in this poignant fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen …
Episode 67 | A Waltz for Tom
A tribute to award-winning journalist, war correspondent, published poet and The Rose Poet Laureate, Tom Squitieri, who died on September 1, 2024…
Episode 66 | Agatha Christie’s “THE MYSTERY OF HUNTER’S LODGE”
When Roger Havering requests the services of Hercule Poirot, who is ill in bed with the flu, to investigate the murder of his uncle at his hunting lodge in Derbyshire, the great Belgian detective must turn to Captain Hastings to be his “eyes and ears” to solve the puzzling case…
Episode 65 | Threads Unsewn
Transformative prose swirls around the meaning of life and loss from playwright, poet and composer, Richard C. Washer ...
Episode 64 | A Message to Garcia
A widely distributed essay written by Elbert Hubbard in 1899, extolling the value of individual initiative and conscientiousness in work ...
Episode 63 | Agatha Christie’s “THE ADVENTURE OF THE CHEAP FLAT”
Captain Hastings meets a couple at a party who have just rented a flat in London’s most fashionable district for an implausibly cheap price. Poirot is intrigued and sets out to investigate.
Episode 62 | THE SUN ALSO RISES CH. 16
Chapter 16 of what is now considered Ernest Hemingway’s greatest work…
Episode 61 | A Tuba in the Bathtub
Acclaimed Helen Hayes award-winning actor Rick Foucheux, shares his memoir of growing up with a bigger than life instrument in small town Louisiana. …
Episode 60 | THE SUN ALSO RISES CH. 15
Chapter 15 of what is now considered Ernest Hemingway’s greatest work…
Episode 59 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE” - Part II
Episode Notes: After the supposed demise of Sherlock Holmes, his closest friend and confidante, Dr. Watson, receives the shock of a lifetime when he is drawn to investigate an apparently unsolvable locked-room murder …
Episode 58 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE” - Part I
Episode Notes: After the supposed demise of Sherlock Holmes, his closest friend and confidante, Dr. Watson, receives the shock of a lifetime when he is drawn to investigate an apparently unsolvable locked-room murder …
Episode 57 | Agatha Christie’s “THE TRAGEDY AT MARSDON MANOR”
No criminal can outwit Detective Hercule Poirot’s “little gray cells” as he investigates the seemingly mundane death of a country squire. The second short story from Agatha Christie’s collection Poirot Investigates …
Episode 56 | THE SUN ALSO RISES CH. 14
Chapter 14 of what is now considered Ernest Hemingway’s greatest work…
Episode 55 | THE SUN ALSO RISES CH. 13
Chapter 13 of what is now considered Ernest Hemingway’s greatest work…
Episode 54 | Ring Out, Wild Bells!
Poetry by Alfred, Lord Tennyson said to have been inspired by the “wild bells” of Waltham Abbey in Essex, England, when the grieving poet threw open his window on New Year’s Eve …
Episode 53 | Fezziwig’s Party | A Christmas Carol
From “A Christmas Carol” (1843) by Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Past visit Scrooge’s former workplace “Fezziwigs” on Christmas Eve…
Episode 52 | A Scottish Winter Fairly
If ever a poet understood the character of his nation, he was Robert Burns. The language of his poems and songs wasn’t so much Scots or English - it was the language of the heart …