BRASS

Feb 21 2024 2.3k
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It is London, 1885 — an alternate history, where the computer age has come 150 years early. In this world of airships, automatons, and computational engines, a family of Victorian science geniuses match wits and weapons against a criminal mastermind for the fate of the Empire.

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BRASS Stacks 1: Lord Dunsany

Feb 21 2024 6 mins  
We begin this special series of readings from great Victorian and Edwardian authors with two very early stories by poet, playwright and fantasist Lord Dunsany. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BRASS Stacks 6: The Snowman

Dec 13 2023 15 mins  
The Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale “The Snowman” tells the melancholy story of a snowman’s ill-suited romance with a kitchen stove. Read by special BRASS Stacks guest Billie Wildrick in a co-production with Utter Love audio experiences. (And thanks to Wildrick for the original music and soundscape in this special episode.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone

BRASSS Stacks 5: Christmas Every Day

Dec 08 2023 13 mins  
William Dean Howell’s 1892 story about a little girl who wished it could be Christmas every day has an interesting moral or two for adults as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brass Stacks 4: The Disintegrator Machine

Nov 08 2023 32 mins  
Professor Challenger meets an inventor whose creation may prove so catastrophic as to imperil the entire British Empire, in this classic short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Read by acclaimed voice actor Larry Albert. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BRASS Stacks 3: When the Door Was Opened

Nov 01 2023 20 mins  
A witty parable about the problem of assuming too much about one’s spouse, “When the Door Opened” was written by the Irish author Sarah Grand, one of the pioneers of fiction dealing with the “New Woman.” It’s read by renowned radio actor Larry Albert, best known for playing the titular detective in “The Adventures of Harry Nile” as well as Dr. Watson in Imagination

BRASS Stacks 2: Oh Whistle, And I'll Come to You, My Lad

Oct 25 2023 50 mins  
In this special seasonal BRASS Stacks, our Lord Brass (Charles Leggett) reads M.R. James' wonderfully spooky tale of a academic's unlucky find at an archaeologicall dig--and what finds him after. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Missives from the World of BRASS 9: Intermittent Correspondents

Oct 19 2023 13 mins  
In the conclusion to our Missives mini-series, the Angel of Blood writes a final letter to Lady Brass–but will it receive a reply? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Missives from the World of BRASS, Episode 8: A Bouquet of Clues

Oct 17 2023 14 mins  
A correspondence between Lady and Lord Brass reveals yet another mystery, and another clue in solving the greater question: who is the Angel of Blood? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Missives from the World of BRASS 7: The Library of Memory

Oct 12 2023 15 mins  
Lady Brass delves into a correspondence kept in a locked drawer of her House of Memory–letters from the woman who taught her how to truly use a sword. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Missives from the World of BRASS, Episode 6: Lady Brass’s Guide to Clues

Oct 10 2023 10 mins  
The (other) Great Detective shares her thoughts on what clues are and how to know when you’ve encountered one–and encounters more than a few herself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices