O Henry's Christmas Gift

"O. Henry's Christmas Gift" - A reading in the style of radio drama with Diana Heinlein and David Houston. Featured are "The Cop and the Anthem" and "The Gift of the Magi", stories by O. Henry, the late 19th / early 20th century short story writer. O. Henry was one of America's greatest story tellers. His final collection was published in the year of his death, 1910. 

Recorded at Southampton's Rogers Memorial Library. Thanks to Yvette Postelle and Penny Wright of the library.

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David Houston's dramatic readings performed at schools and libraries, unfortunately, have been discontinued.  

 

His web site: www.davidhouston.net/

Francesca Rheannon reads The Food Philosophe

Twenty years ago, WPKN's Francesca Rheannon spent several months living in southern France. Soon after her arrival, in the Fall of 2001, she became good friends with a couple living in the old Roman town of Apt.

On December 21, Marie Jo and Michel threw a dinner party to celebrate the Winter Solstice. The food was divine, the wine likewise, and the company convivial — and Francesca ended up learning a profound lesson about the French Art of Living. Francesca wrote up her experience in the story, “The Food Philosophe,” part of a longer memoir of her sojourn in Provence, titled Province of the Heart. 

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