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KacheliTV — the world's stories, read aloud. Looking for a story to fall asleep to, to ride with on a long drive, or to share at bedtime? Start here. We read the folk tales and classics of every culture on Earth — complete and unabridged, never excerpts — in fresh English translations, performed by our cast of voices. The fairy tales of Ireland and Japan. The legends of India and Nigeria. Jamaica, the Netherlands, the Cherokee, the Norse — and the Russia of Pushkin and Krylov. The stories your grandmother knew, and stories from shores you've never heard — every culture in the spotlight, no one missed. New tales arrive every week. Pick a shelf, press play, and let the world's grandmothers talk you to sleep. Free always — here and on every podcast app. Prefer no commercials? Find us on Apple Podcasts. From The Dog You Chose LLC, Gulfport, Florida. Public-domain sources, told with respect. Find us: YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/@KacheliTVFlorida Telegram — https://t.me/kacheliTV Website — https://dogyouchose.com The Dog You Chose books — https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FYSTBLQ3 Our cast is a company of AI-generated voices, performing fresh in-house translations of public-domain works from every culture.

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  1. 53m ago

    The Gothic Shelf — Part 1: The Castle of Otranto — The Helmet in the Courtyard

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The Gothic Shelf — Part 1: The Castle of Otranto — The Helmet in the Courtyard A wedding morning in the castle of Otranto begins with a horror no one can explain: the young Prince Conrad is found dead in the courtyard, crushed beneath an enormous helmet — a hundred times larger than any helmet ever made for a human head, and crowned with black feathers. His father Manfred, Prince of Otranto, holds his title by an old and doubtful claim, and an ancient prophecy hangs over the house: the castle shall pass from the present family when the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it. What Manfred does next — to the bride, to his wife, and to a young peasant who dares to remark that the helmet resembles the one on the statue of Alfonso the Good — opens the first Gothic novel ever written: Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764), the book that invented haunted castles, persecuted heroines, and things in armour that should not be there. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Chapters 0:35 — Introduction 1:39 — The Castle of Otranto — Part One Part One of the novel is told whole, exactly as Walpole printed it in the first chapter — the wedding morning, the helmet in the courtyard, the sentence passed on the peasant Theodore, and Isabella's flight through the vaults beneath the castle. One honest note for the listener: the catastrophe itself happens before the tale opens and is discovered, not staged; Walpole's chapter describes what was found, in the heightened language of 1764. The edition's own introduction and the author's period prefaces are apparatus, and are not narrated. Part Two continues the novel in the next part of this season. Music: opening and closing themes from Tabla_Horizon. Source: Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764), from Project Gutenberg eBook #696 (Cassell's National Library edition) — public domain. The Gothic Shelf is an ongoing KacheliTV season of classic Gothic tales, told in parts; no completeness is claimed for the season. Retold aloud by KacheliTV — World Classics, Read Aloud.

    The Gothic Shelf — Part 1: The Castle of Otranto — The Helmet in the Courtyard

  2. 53m ago

    Tales of Music — Part 1: The Nightingale · The Bremen Town Musicians · Maese Pérez, the Organist

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Tales of Music — Part 1: The Nightingale · The Bremen Town Musicians · Maese Pérez, the Organist | KacheliTV World Classics Part One of Tales of Music, a new shelf on KacheliTV: stories in which music itself does the work — a song that talks Death out of an emperor's bedroom, four old animals who mean to earn their bread as town musicians, and an organ in Seville that some said did not stop when its master died. In Hans Christian Andersen's "The Nightingale" (1843), a plain grey bird out-sings the jewelled machine that replaced her at court, and returns unsummoned when the Emperor lies dying. The Brothers Grimm's "The Bremen Town Musicians" sends a donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster down the road to Bremen, and into a robbers' supper they were never invited to. Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer's "Maese Pérez, the Organist" tells of the blind organist of Santa Inés, whose playing all Seville crossed the city to hear — and of the midnight mass a year after his death, when the organ was heard again. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Chapters 02:00 The Nightingale 24:32 The Bremen Town Musicians 32:10 Maese Pérez, the Organist All three tales are told whole and complete. The Bécquer is told in a fresh translation made for KacheliTV from his Spanish; the Andersen is read in H. W. Dulcken's translation and the Grimm in Margaret Hunt's (1884). Bécquer's church is the tale's scenery — its engine is the music; nothing is preached. Music: 'Tabla Horizon' (instrumental theme) opens and closes the programme and sounds briefly between the tales; there is no music under the narration. Sources: Hans Christian Andersen, "The Nightingale", Project Gutenberg eBook #71096 (Dulcken translation); Brothers Grimm, "The Bremen Town Musicians", in Household Tales, Margaret Hunt translation (1884), Project Gutenberg eBook #5314; Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, "Maese Pérez, el organista", Obras (1885), Spanish text via Wikisource, translated for KacheliTV. All public domain. Recorded for KacheliTV. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

    Tales of Music — Part 1: The Nightingale · The Bremen Town Musicians · Maese Pérez, the Organist

  3. 4h ago

    Edgar Allan Poe — Part 1: The Raven · The Bells · Ulalume · Annabel Lee · Eldorado · A Dream Within a Dream · Lenore · The Purloined Letter

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Edgar Allan Poe — Part 1: The Raven · The Bells · Ulalume · Annabel Lee · Eldorado · A Dream Within a Dream · Lenore · The Purloined Letter | KacheliTV World Classics A new shelf opens on KacheliTV, and it belongs to mitroFun: the raven himself hosts and reads this Edgar Allan Poe season, as his own book. Part One gathers seven poems and a tale. A scholar sits up past midnight while a bird at his chamber door will say only one word; church bells, sleigh bells, wedding bells and the iron bells of the fire alarm ring out the whole of a life; a lover walks by night to the tomb of Ulalume and to the sepulchre of Annabel Lee by the sounding sea; a knight rides after Eldorado; and the evening ends in Paris, where the Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin takes up the case of a stolen letter — a letter hidden, as no one but Dupin could see, in plain sight. Poe published these pieces between 1843 and 1849, the last in the year of his death at forty. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Chapters 02:19 The Raven 11:15 The Bells 15:51 Ulalume 20:57 Annabel Lee 23:23 Eldorado 24:33 A Dream Within a Dream 25:53 Lenore 28:24 The Purloined Letter Every piece is told whole and complete. The edition's scholarly apparatus is not read; Poe's texts only. In "The Bells", the poem's four sections are headed aloud by their numbers, so the structure carries in audio. One misprint in the copy ("lamplght") is read as the word Poe printed in every other edition: "lamplight". Music: 'Before the Pines End' (instrumental theme) opens and closes the programme and sounds briefly between the pieces; there is no music under the narration. Source: Edgar Allan Poe, works of 1843–1849, from Project Gutenberg eBook #25525 (The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition), public domain. Recorded for KacheliTV. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

    Edgar Allan Poe — Part 1: The Raven · The Bells · Ulalume · Annabel Lee · Eldorado · A Dream Within a Dream · Lenore · The Purloined Letter

  4. 6h ago

    Ghost Stories for the Dark — Part 1: The Mezzotint · Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Ghost Stories for the Dark — Part 1: The Mezzotint · Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book | KacheliTV World Classics Part One of Ghost Stories for the Dark, a new shelf on KacheliTV, opens with M. R. James — Provost of King's College, Cambridge, who wrote his ghost stories to read aloud to friends at Christmas, and whose Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904) made him the acknowledged master of the English ghost story. Two complete tales are told here. In "The Mezzotint", a college museum buys a quiet little engraving of an English country house — a picture that will not stay the same picture twice, and that is slowly showing its new owners something it saw one night in 1802. In "Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book", an English traveller in the decayed French town of St Bertrand de Comminges is pressed to buy a marvellous old scrap-book from a frightened sacristan, and learns, alone in his inn room that night, why the Canon who made it was feared in his parish for two hundred years. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Chapters 01:58 The Mezzotint 35:25 Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book Both tales are told whole and complete. James's scholarly footnotes are apparatus, not tale: the note merely identifying a manuscript fragment is not read; his two footnotes that belong to the story itself are read in place. The Latin inscriptions in "Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book" are read as James printed them, together with his own translations, which he gives in the text. Nothing else is altered. Music: 'Tabla Horizon' (instrumental theme) opens and closes the programme and sounds briefly between the tales; there is no music under the narration. Source: M. R. James, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), Project Gutenberg eBook #8486, public domain. Recorded for KacheliTV. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

    Ghost Stories for the Dark — Part 1: The Mezzotint · Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book

  5. 12h ago

    Love Tales of the World — Part 1: Aucassin and Nicolette

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Love Tales of the World — Part 1: Aucassin and Nicolette | KacheliTV World Classics Part One of Love Tales of the World, a new shelf on KacheliTV, opens with the most singular love story the Middle Ages have left us: Aucassin and Nicolette, the one surviving chantefable — a song-story — of medieval France, made by an unknown poet in the twelfth or thirteenth century, and heard here in Andrew Lang's English translation of 1887. Aucassin, the young son of Count Garin of Beaucaire, loves Nicolette, a girl carried from Carthage as a child and raised in the town, and for her sake he will not be a knight, nor take arms, nor do anything that is asked of him — unless the asking ends with Nicolette. His father forbids it. What follows is the merriest and tenderest of all the old romances, and it belongs, from first to last, as much to Nicolette as to him. The song-story is told as it was made: the tale alternates between the spoken word and the sung verse, and you will hear the old cues as they come — "Here singeth one" — when the story passes into song. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Chapters 01:53 Aucassin and Nicolette The chantefable is told whole and complete. The edition's introduction, the translator's prefatory poem and his notes are apparatus around the tale, not part of it, and are not read here. One period term is neutrally rendered in the reading: the verse line naming "Mahound" is read with the place it stands for, Carthage; nothing else is altered. Music: 'Falling Leaves at the Ice Cliffs' (instrumental theme) opens and closes the programme; there is no music under the narration. Source: "Aucassin and Nicolete", anonymous Old French chantefable (12th–13th century), in Andrew Lang's English translation (1887), Project Gutenberg eBook #1578, public domain. Recorded for KacheliTV. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

    Love Tales of the World — Part 1: Aucassin and Nicolette

  6. 12h ago

    Folk Tales of Portugal — Part 2: The Rabbit · The Maiden and the Beast · The Aunts · The Cabbage Stalk | KacheliTV World Classics

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of Portugal, Part Two returns to Consiglieri Pedroso's Portuguese Folk-Tales (London, 1882), in Henriqueta Monteiro's English translation, and reads on in the book's own order — four tales told as printed: a rabbit who carried off a princess's garter, her handkerchief, and her gold necklet, and was a prince by night in a palace where only hands were seen; a maiden who kept her promise to a voice in an empty palace one visit too few; three aunts whose very large eyes, very large ears, and very long arms saved a bride from her grandmother's boasting; and a little maid who climbed down her own cabbage stalk to a palace underground, and wore out a pair of iron shoes to win its prince back. One passage note, at its true weight: the second tale ends in sorrow — a father dies, the beast dies with his broken spell, and the maiden dies of grief. Nothing is softened and nothing is added. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. In this episode: 1:52 — The Rabbit 11:05 — The Maiden and the Beast 22:44 — The Aunts 28:15 — The Cabbage Stalk Of the book's thirty tales, five are now told across Parts One and Two. At this part's gate thirteen more were read in full: the four told here, and nine set aside by name in the shelf register under the house rule — among them "The Enchanted Maiden," "The Tower of Ill Luck," and "The Maiden with the Rose on Her Forehead" — each because its plot turns on depicted killing, cruelty, or matter this shelf does not carry. Ten tales stand unscreened for a later part. No more than that is claimed. Source: Consiglieri Pedroso, "Portuguese Folk-Tales," translated by Henriqueta Monteiro (London: Elliot Stock, for the Folk-Lore Society, 1882) — public domain; copy from the Internet Archive. Read as printed. Narrated by Orson. Music: "Gangster_Piano_Symphony" — opening and closing theme, heard again briefly between the tales. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

    Folk Tales of Portugal — Part 2: The Rabbit · The Maiden and the Beast · The Aunts · The Cabbage Stalk | KacheliTV World Classics

  7. 12h ago

    The Musical Break — Glacial Lightning Triumph

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Season 103 · Episode 11 — the eleventh of the Musical Break specials on KacheliTV World Classics. Tonight's musical break is the wild one: six pieces of ice, storm and racing water — each introduced by your host, Benedetto, and played in full. We begin in the dark with Three Pairs of Yellow Eyes — something in the treeline is watching, and the music knows what it is before we do. Glacial Forest follows: a wood of blue ice and held breath, beautiful and entirely indifferent. Then the sky breaks — Lightning Crash, the storm arriving all at once, and Urgent Rhythms keeps the pulse racing, hooves and heartbeats and no time to waste. The River's Dying Vision slows us into wonder, one last bright picture on dark water, and Sweeping Triumph brings us home at full sail — banners up, weather beaten, the whole horizon applauding. THE PROGRAMME 0:00 Three Pairs of Yellow Eyes 3:36 Glacial Forest 7:03 Lightning Crash 10:24 Urgent Rhythms 13:44 The River's Dying Vision 17:04 Sweeping Triumph THE MUSIC Six instrumentals from the house library, played here in full: Three Pairs of Yellow Eyes · Glacial Forest · Lightning Crash · Urgent Rhythms · The River's Dying Vision · Sweeping Triumph. Every piece is announced before it plays; between the announcements the music stands alone, with no words over it at all. Music: instrumentals from the house library, played in full. Spoken introductions by Benedetto, your Musical Break host — the music itself is wordless throughout.

    The Musical Break — Glacial Lightning Triumph

  8. 12h ago

    The Musical Break — Pines Before Dawn

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Season 103 · Episode 10 — the tenth of the Musical Break specials on KacheliTV World Classics. Tonight's musical break keeps the hours between dusk and dawn: six pieces of rivers, palaces and pine forests — each introduced by your host, Benedetto, and played in full. We begin with Convergence at Dusk, where the day folds itself away and every road bends toward evening. The Longest Night by the River follows — one man, one fire, one slow black river that refuses to hurry. Winter Palace Rhapsody turns the night to crystal: ballrooms of frost and chandeliers of ice. Before the Pines End walks the last dark mile of the forest, where the trees stand closer than friends, and Tabla Horizon lifts the eyes to where the drum-skin of the earth meets the sky. We close with Raga at Dawn — the first light, played the way the old masters taught: slowly, then all at once, like the sun remembering the world. THE PROGRAMME 0:00 Convergence at Dusk 3:34 The Longest Night by the River 6:34 Winter Palace Rhapsody 10:00 Before the Pines End 13:29 Tabla Horizon 17:06 Raga at Dawn THE MUSIC Six instrumentals from the house library, played here in full: Convergence at Dusk · The Longest Night by the River · Winter Palace Rhapsody · Before the Pines End · Tabla Horizon · Raga at Dawn. Every piece is announced before it plays; between the announcements the music stands alone, with no words over it at all. Music: instrumentals from the house library, played in full. Spoken introductions by Benedetto, your Musical Break host — the music itself is wordless throughout.

    The Musical Break — Pines Before Dawn
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KacheliTV — the world's stories, read aloud. Looking for a story to fall asleep to, to ride with on a long drive, or to share at bedtime? Start here. We read the folk tales and classics of every culture on Earth — complete and unabridged, never excerpts — in fresh English translations, performed by our cast of voices. The fairy tales of Ireland and Japan. The legends of India and Nigeria. Jamaica, the Netherlands, the Cherokee, the Norse — and the Russia of Pushkin and Krylov. The stories your grandmother knew, and stories from shores you've never heard — every culture in the spotlight, no one missed. New tales arrive every week. Pick a shelf, press play, and let the world's grandmothers talk you to sleep. Free always — here and on every podcast app. Prefer no commercials? Find us on Apple Podcasts. From The Dog You Chose LLC, Gulfport, Florida. Public-domain sources, told with respect. Find us: YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/@KacheliTVFlorida Telegram — https://t.me/kacheliTV Website — https://dogyouchose.com The Dog You Chose books — https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FYSTBLQ3 Our cast is a company of AI-generated voices, performing fresh in-house translations of public-domain works from every culture.

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