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!
Seabiscuit beats a younger horse, the reigning Triple-Crown winner, War Admiral, in the Pimlico Special of 1938.
Pope Innocent III believes King John does not have the right to give away land without consulting him. The Pope's response is to excommunicate the nob...
His family buries Kennedy's body in Arlington Cemetery, as a country grieves for the loss of their leader.
Poe knows Charles Dickens has a pet raven. Perhaps with that in mind, he publishes (on January 29, 1845), one of his most-famous works, "The Raven." L...
Jailed for shooting their lovers, Beulah Annan (Roxie Hart) and Belva Guertner (Velma Kelly) pose for press photos.
Belva Guertner is acquitted a month after Beulah.
E.B. White's real-life saltwater farm in Maine is the basis of the Zuckerman Farm in "Charlotte's Web."
The gunfight on Fremont Street does not settle matters between the two sides, and more shootings and killings soon occur.
Seabiscuit and his owner both die of heart problems; Seabiscuit's grave is by an unmarked oak tree at his ranch in California.
The movie Chicago is made after the 1996 revival of the musical.
Gladiators fight each other and animals in the Roman games.
Scrooge takes a trip with the "Spirit of Christmas Present" and learns more about the lives of his clerk (Bob Cratchit) and nephew (Fred) than he ever...
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