Sometimes it's nice just to hear a story. Like the "golden age of radio," Awesome Stories features dramatizations of classics, narrated chapters of our own stories, radio interviews and radio plays. This collection benefits ESL, adult literacy and those who just want to close their eyes and listen to a good story!
Today, Port Royal is a place for underwater study to view remnants of the pirate culture.
Poe's bloody detective stories begin to mirror real life, including his wife's diagnosis of tuberculosis.
At 27, Poe falls in love with his cousin Virginia, whom he marries when she is 13.
On June 7, 1692 an earthquake destroys Port Royal and the town never recovers.
While waiting for Stalin to arrive, President Truman writes of the devastation in Berlin.
Churchill proves himself as he leads his country to victory, but is voted out of office in 1940.
Buoy sensors, satellite images and airplanes help weather services to predict bad weather and warn people of impending dangers.
Hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones develop over warm water and can be very dangerous.
Zamp and Phil move to another anonymous prisoner of war camp. Guards are brutal, and meals are poor. Zamp meets a guard he knew from college in the US...
A long investigation, by the Warren Commission, officially concludes that Oswald acted alone in President Kennedy's murder.
Nuclear energy creates radiation, which can make living things sick or even kill them.
Indonesians decide to get rid of native trees and replace them with more valuable oil palm trees.
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