Timestamps: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:59 The Story begins 00:29:03 Credits, thanks and further listening This story is one of a series featuring Thorpe Hazell, "the railway detective", originally published in The Royal Magazine in 1905. If you'd like to hear more of Thorpe Hazell's cases, they are collected in this playlist: ru-vid.com/group/PLi95qAoufCZLvCU7wSz3kSgiKfLkxe3XH
Thank you, Simon. I really still like the new format with the music and the added information on the authors and the stories. I know it's a lot of added work but always look forward to the finished product!
Thank you Simon! I had never previously known of this author before finding your channel, and I love his stories - I suppose I could actually find them to read for myself...but who wants to do that when I can listen to your perfect performances (and crochet cat blankies at the same time)! Another gem, many thanks 😺
"Ever and anon" is a wonderful expression. I really do appreciate old-school prose. Thanks very much for another enjoyable story. Reasons to smile are precious. : )
LOL 👏👏👏! Loved it Simon! It's so funny that in spite of whatever else is going on, he's preoccupied with his stomach. You do such a remarkable job of distinguishing voices between characters. And I too, very much like the intro music; it sets the mood for the whole story. You're the best and I adore you! ❤
It’s great you are providing information about the authors. My father was a very popular DJ here & he has told me about having to do the same thing about the bands or artists that he was featuring on his show back in the beginning. Love listening to you anyway Simon! ♥️♥️♥️😎🇦🇺✌️
I love listening to Simon's performances, because it is more than narration. I am a proud monthly member of his buy me a coffee plan. You can be too! Together, we can keep this wonderful channel going. Please, join the club, you'll never miss the price of a coffee. Details above. ^
Wonderful tale! I was wondering what the trick would be and pleasantly enough, it was something very clever but plausible, instead of those 'rabbit out of the hats' resolutions. Thank you! Always a delight to see you've posted.
Oh what an excellent story. It has all my favorite attributes. An amateur detective, a railroad mystery, stolen documents, diplomatic crisis and foreign intrigue topped off with an unexpected twist and impeccably performed. The background information adds a lot to the story. I knw the author from his novels but didn't know about his earlier short stories. I hope you do another one for us.😊😊
Glad to know you enjoyed it. I've done four stories from this series to date - if you haven't heard the other ones, they're available on this playlist: ru-vid.com/group/PLi95qAoufCZLvCU7wSz3kSgiKfLkxe3XH
addicted to your voice, presentation and enunciation . thank you for an articulate attractive presentation that gives much pleasure. Thank G-d for narrators that delight the ear..👏
Thank you, Simon. Another fine story...love all the Whitechurch railroad stories. It is wonderfully read...you get better, it seems, as you read these magnificent, well-written stories! I appreciate your selection of excellent, talented authors.
Oh I'm so happy to see this one, to notice it today! It was one of the two or three you uploaded when I had covid and I just couldn't get my head around even the simplest plot I guess it's the clearest way to explain it. I've heard~and now completely understand!~ that covid can be a bit of a different experience for different people. I would absolutely have to agree that, to date, it's a very individual thing. Four family members of mine including myself, all had it at roughly the same time, in two households, and we all had a substantially different illness, which all seemed to have different phases . One of my issues was for several days, being simply unable to follow a story or even someone talking to me and found I didn't have the energy to even care. That was pretty bad I have to say. If there's such a thing as covid depression, I had it for sure, in the middle there for a while I'm just so grateful that that part is over and I am what I can only think of as pretty much myself again, and I'm so happy you were here for me on the other side. You do so much for your audience, so much you probably never anticipated the extent of it, or could have done.. Thank you again for being here and doing what you do, because it's a unique gift you've got there, and that you share it as you do, is very wonderful.
Thank you, Simon. I really enjoyed this recording. I'm curious as to the source of the strange dietary and exercise regimes that Thorpe Hazell practices.
Another treat for us all, thank you so much also the yarn on Sputastic was brilliant, please leave your coffee link as haven’t sent you a coffee for months,you must be gasping,be a terrible shame to loose that wonderful voice✊♥️
Yes, I've recorded four to date by this author: I've put them together in a playlist which I'll add to as and when I record any more: ru-vid.com/group/PLi95qAoufCZLvCU7wSz3kSgiKfLkxe3XH
18th comment 👍 The Affair of the German Dispatch Box =(307 Nothing can Stop What's Coming/Carefully Consider My Words/Do You Want to Know a Secret/I Am the Risen and Returning King/Sudden Destruction Shall Come) #SimonSays #JFKJR #BitesizedAudio #LoveWins although it will LOOK as if we do lose!
There are still heritage railways in Britain. They carry schoolchildren and shoppers from rural areas, and some have events like teas. West Somerset Railway will let you drive a goods train, for a fee. It's a lot of fun.
Hmm, this was published in December 1905. Doyle's Adventure of the Second Stain was published in December 1904. I think Whitechurch would get the Victorian equivalent of a RU-vid strike.
Ha! Yes, fair point... although it might be argued that Doyle had already copied himself with the Second Stain, as it was also his second story about a stolen government document, after The Naval Treaty in 1893. And of course there was Poe's 'The Purloined Letter' (1844) which predates them all...
Excellent narrative. Good story. Though I find it just a hair fabricated. Too many discrepancies. I just happened to work voluntarily for Naval Intelligence for a very short time. Also I took a few semesters of psychology in college and a US Government crash course of the same. Since you made no reference of what time of the twentieth century I'm assuming early nineteen hundreds. This was far to simple and his guards were incompetent fools. Either way very entertaining read.
Thank you for your comment Ernest, much appreciated. In terms of the date of the story, it was published in 1905 (where I'm able to find it, I put the original publication details in the video description) but of course in the narrative it says that the events happened some years earlier and belong to the realm of obsolete diplomatic crises, so perhaps an approximate date would be early 1890s?
@@BitesizedAudio yes, anytime a rudimentary fishing pole is involved, you know it's going to be a wild ride! As always, thank you, Simon. Wonderful storytelling. A criminally underrated art these days.
I'm very sorry to know that. I do strive to find the least jarring music I can within the limits of the RU-vid creator library, usually something fairly quiet and classical in style, but reasonably appropriate for the particular story where possible. I don't underscore the story itself, I'm just using musical interludes to separate the introductions from the narratives. If you'd prefer to listen to the stories unadorned by any music you can find the original recordings on my Bandcamp page: bitesizedaudio.bandcamp.com
Thanks for reaching out. I'm always happy to take suggestions for collaborations or stories to read, although I can't commit to anything in the near future as I've got quite a heavy workload lined up for the months ahead. If you have any specific proposals, do feel free to contact me with details via the email address on the 'About' page of the channel.
@@BitesizedAudio I am very sorry, Mr. Simon. I am unable to find the mail address. It will be very kind of you if you write it down once in the comment box. Thank you.
Quite so! I believe that the dangers of smoking weren't really understood until the 1950s, and even then it took some decades for it to be widely understood by the public. Prior to that smoking was even prescribed as a health benefit/medication sometimes!
