Reading for Joy

About Reading for Joy

This podcast is a retirement project and maybe ... for the listener steeped in the controversies of modern culture and dire news reports ... something different. An eclectic collection of texts, chosen only for two reasons: I encountered them at some stage in my life and they endured for me, continuing to challenge me or delight me or, most often, doing both. You won't find audio book perfection here. I am most decidedly not a 'voice' professional. I am just a lover of ideas, both bright and dark, of stories, and of how the well-written word married with the human voice can touch us.

Publisher

Heather Barfoot

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 May 2019

Latest episode

21 Apr 2021

Latest episodes

6 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Apr 2021

   Selected poems by Kahlil Gibran - Part II

   Wisdom, beauty, life - the poet's words.

2. 

   7 Apr 2021

   Ch. 1 - Lost Horizon by James Hilton (1933)

   Conway's life-changing adventure begins.

3. 

   23 Jan 2021

   Prologue - Lost Horizon by James Hilton (1933)

   As prologues do, this chapter sets the scene. It's the origin story, so to speak.

4. 

   21 Jan 2020

   Selected Poems by Kahlil Gibran - Part I

   A source of joy: Discovering ... rediscovering ... poetry.

5. 

   17 May 2019

   The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Anderson

   I received a collection of Andersen's Fairy Tales for "Christmes 1965", as my 9-year-old self wrote in the flyleaf. The book has traveled with me throughout my life and it will be a joy to revisit some of these stories again. This one had to be the first. Reading shapes us and this story became part of my story.

6. 

   16 May 2019

   Reading for Joy (Trailer)

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