Just Listen Podcast

About Just Listen Podcast

Welcome to Just Listen, a celebration of American and English short stories and poetry for your listening pleasure. High school students will happily find many of their literature book selections recorded here, and students with reading challenges will find a ready assist in the audio recordings.

Publisher

Paul Smethers

Category

fiction

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Aug 2018

Latest episode

24 Mar 2025

Latest episodes

187 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 Mar 2025

   "A Lodging for the Night"

   Robert Louis Stevenson, famed author of Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, continues to provoke both hatred and idolatry, and there are now well over a hundred biographical books and essays on Stevenson and his work.

2. 

   27 Jan 2025

   "The Lady or the Tiger?" and "The Discourager of Hesitancy"

   “The Lady or the Tiger?” is one of the most anthologized short stories for adolescents and teens, often appearing in literature collections and possessing a unique place in the short story genre: it leaves the ending to the reader, or the listener, in our case. The plot is left unresolved.

3. 

   2 Dec 2024

   "The Revolt of 'Mother'"

   Mary E. Wilkins Freeman shares her feminist values through her authorship in 'The Revolt of 'Mother'.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

2,144,303

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 39 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

32

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

32

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Guest appearances

Books guests

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