Phillip J. Mather – Spoken Realms https://spokenrealms.com Mon, 28 Oct 2024 22:34:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/spokenrealms.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cropped-logo-purple-black-white-outline.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Phillip J. Mather – Spoken Realms https://spokenrealms.com 32 32 136118765 Sredni Vashtar https://spokenrealms.com/2024/10/29/sredni-vashtar/ https://spokenrealms.com/2024/10/29/sredni-vashtar/#respond Tue, 29 Oct 2024 17:31:00 +0000 https://spokenrealms.com/?p=24976

Conradin, a ten-year-old boy, rebels against his strict guardian when he invents a new religion that idolizes his pet polecat-ferret, Sredni Vashtar. Conradin hides Sredni Vashtar and prays to him in secret. When the guardian begins a search for the boy’s new god, Conradin’s worship is answered with disturbing results.

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]]> https://spokenrealms.com/2024/10/29/sredni-vashtar/feed/ 0 24976 Twas the Night Before Christmas https://spokenrealms.com/2017/12/01/twas-the-night-before-christmas-pjmather/ https://spokenrealms.com/2017/12/01/twas-the-night-before-christmas-pjmather/#respond Fri, 01 Dec 2017 18:10:07 +0000 http://www.spokenrealms.net/?p=6116 A timeless Christmas story – ideal for children and adults alike to enjoy or reminisce. Saint Nicholas, reindeer, snow, fireside, gifts…all there and beautifully narrated in a classic British manner by Phillip J. Mather.

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]]> https://spokenrealms.com/2017/12/01/twas-the-night-before-christmas-pjmather/feed/ 0 6116 The Trial for Murder https://spokenrealms.com/2017/10/11/the-trial-for-murder-pjmather/ https://spokenrealms.com/2017/10/11/the-trial-for-murder-pjmather/#respond Wed, 11 Oct 2017 17:18:34 +0000 http://www.spokenrealms.com/?p=7381 A superbly crafted Dickens classic, masterfully narrated – a ghostly apparition supervises the trial of his murderer.

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]]> https://spokenrealms.com/2017/10/11/the-trial-for-murder-pjmather/feed/ 0 7381 The Moth https://spokenrealms.com/2017/10/09/the-moth-pjmather/ https://spokenrealms.com/2017/10/09/the-moth-pjmather/#respond Mon, 09 Oct 2017 17:45:22 +0000 http://www.spokenrealms.com/?p=7373 First published in the Pall Mall Gazette in 1895, this dark tale from master storyteller, H. G. Wells gives an account of the truly maddening battle for scientific supremacy between two notable entomologists.

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]]> https://spokenrealms.com/2017/10/09/the-moth-pjmather/feed/ 0 7373 The Open Window https://spokenrealms.com/2017/04/10/the-open-window-pjmather/ https://spokenrealms.com/2017/04/10/the-open-window-pjmather/#respond Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:38:17 +0000 http://www.spokenrealms.net/?p=6219 Framton Nuttle moves to the country to improve his health. His sister insists that he get to know his neighbors, and gives him letters of introduction to the families she met while staying there. Framton goes to meet one of his neighbors, Mrs. Stapleton, and while he waits for her, her 15-year-old niece tells him the tragic story about their French window that is always kept open, even in the winter.

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]]> https://spokenrealms.com/2017/04/10/the-open-window-pjmather/feed/ 0 6219 Book of Revelation https://spokenrealms.com/2017/04/02/book-of-revelation-pjmather/ https://spokenrealms.com/2017/04/02/book-of-revelation-pjmather/#respond Sun, 02 Apr 2017 17:40:23 +0000 http://www.spokenrealms.net/?p=6195 The King James version of the Bible has been a revered translation for over 400 years and is popular the world over. In today’s troubled and uncertain times, the book of Revelation is especially relevant, prophesying Jesus’ return, bringing judgment to all on Earth. In this final book of the New Testament, the vision as given to St. John the Divine on the Island of Patmos is powerfully and sympathetically presented by the popular narrator Phillip J. Mather.

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]]> https://spokenrealms.com/2017/04/02/book-of-revelation-pjmather/feed/ 0 6195 Six Just So Stories https://spokenrealms.com/2016/11/25/six-just-so-stories-pjmather/ https://spokenrealms.com/2016/11/25/six-just-so-stories-pjmather/#respond Fri, 25 Nov 2016 19:17:33 +0000 http://www.spokenrealms.net/?p=5540 51otgo-ifpl-_sl300_ The “Just So Stories” began as bedtime stories told to “Effie” (Josephine, Kipling’s firstborn). When the first three were published in a children’s magazine, a year before her death, Kipling explained: “….in the evening, there were stories meant to put Effie to sleep, and you were not allowed to alter those by one single little word. They had to be told just so, or Effie would wake up and put back the missing sentence.” (Wikipedia)

This production, inimitably narrated by Phillip J Mather, contains the first six stories of the Just So series: “How the Whale Got His Throat”, “How the Camel Got His Hump”, “How the Rhino Got His Skin”, “How the Leopard Got His Spots”, “The Elephant’s Child”, and “The Sing Song of Old Man Kangaroo”.

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]]> https://spokenrealms.com/2016/11/25/six-just-so-stories-pjmather/feed/ 0 5540 Six Classic Ghost Stories https://spokenrealms.com/2016/11/23/six-classic-ghost-stories-pjmather/ https://spokenrealms.com/2016/11/23/six-classic-ghost-stories-pjmather/#respond Wed, 23 Nov 2016 19:12:11 +0000 http://www.spokenrealms.net/?p=5560 41oqp-ktpal-_sl300_Six classic ghost stories from six classic authors, narrated by Phillip J Mather: “A Haunted House” by Virginia Woolf”; “The Image of the Lost Soul” by H H Munro [Saki]; “A Ghost” by Guy de Maupassant; “The Oval Portrait” by Edgar Allan Poe; “A Ghost Story” by Mark Twain; “The Trial for Murder” by Charles Dickens.

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]]> https://spokenrealms.com/2016/11/23/six-classic-ghost-stories-pjmather/feed/ 0 5560 Three Saki Short Stories https://spokenrealms.com/2016/11/23/three-saki-short-stories-pjmather/ https://spokenrealms.com/2016/11/23/three-saki-short-stories-pjmather/#respond Wed, 23 Nov 2016 14:12:07 +0000 http://www.spokenrealms.net/?p=5566 61w4ovyy2pl-_sl300_Perennial classics, masterfully narrated: “The Open Window”, “The Image of the Lost Soul”, “Sredni Vashtar”.

Hector Hugh Munro (December 18, 1870-November 14, 1916), better known by the pen name Saki and frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous, and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Rudyard Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noel Coward, and P. G. Wodehouse.

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]]> https://spokenrealms.com/2016/11/23/three-saki-short-stories-pjmather/feed/ 0 5566 The Gift of the Magi https://spokenrealms.com/2016/11/19/the-gift-of-the-magi-pjmather/ https://spokenrealms.com/2016/11/19/the-gift-of-the-magi-pjmather/#respond Sun, 20 Nov 2016 00:04:41 +0000 http://www.spokenrealms.net/?p=5618 418ekdy4lgl-_sl300_The classic Christmas love story, as poignant now as when O. Henry (pen name of William Sydney Porter) wrote it in 1905. A poor young couple sacrifices their own “treasures” for their partner. A must-listen for any time of year.

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]]> https://spokenrealms.com/2016/11/19/the-gift-of-the-magi-pjmather/feed/ 0 5618 Three More Just So Stories https://spokenrealms.com/2016/11/13/three-more-just-so-stories-pjmather/ https://spokenrealms.com/2016/11/13/three-more-just-so-stories-pjmather/#respond Mon, 14 Nov 2016 00:53:00 +0000 http://www.spokenrealms.net/?p=5535 619dat-zfdl-_sl300_ The Just So Stories began as bedtime stories told to “Effie” (Josephine, Kipling’s firstborn). When the first three were published in a children’s magazine, a year before her death, Kipling explained: “….in the evening, there were stories meant to put Effie to sleep, and you were not allowed to alter those by one single little word. They had to be told just so; or Effie would wake up and put back the missing sentence.” (Wikipedia)

This production, inimitably narrated by Phillip J Mather, contains the second three stories of the Just So series: “How the Leopard Got His Spots”, “The Elephant’s Child”, and “The Sing Song of Old Man Kangaroo”.

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]]> https://spokenrealms.com/2016/11/13/three-more-just-so-stories-pjmather/feed/ 0 5535 The Art of War https://spokenrealms.com/2016/01/16/the-art-of-war-pmather/ https://spokenrealms.com/2016/01/16/the-art-of-war-pmather/#respond Sat, 16 Jan 2016 17:19:18 +0000 http://spokenrealms.net/?p=5217&supersonic=wp-admin 51w0MF4YZeL._SL300_Written in the sixth century BC by senior military general and advisor Sun Tzu, The Art of War has been adopted by strategists the world over. The tactics detailed in the work are appropriate even today, after two and a half millennia, for all those wishing to obtain the best performance from their soldiers and subordinates, sports athletes, and themselves.

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