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A Little English

What if the stories in your English course could make you laugh? What if they could break your heart? What if you just had to know...what happens next? My name is Cooper, and I'm an English professor in Hiroshima, Japan. I love teaching, I love English literature, and I love podcasts. So, I decided to combine all three into this show! Each episode, I will read a short story in English. Some of them are famous, some not-so-famous. Some of them I even write myself. For example, I read stories by AA Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh), Ernest Hemingway, and Philip K...

Forty Stories - "Alone"

20 mins; August 02, 2023

forty Stories - "Mixtape"

20 mins; July 19, 2023

Forty Stories - "Brave"

20 mins; July 05, 2023

Forty Stories - "Shelter"

16 mins; June 21, 2023

Forty Stories - "Advanced Dungeons and Dragons"

20 mins; June 07, 2023

Forty Stories - "Scandalous"

20 mins; May 24, 2023

Forty Stories - "Play Ball"

18 mins; May 10, 2023

Forty Stories - "Two Thousand and One"

20 mins; April 26, 2023

Forty Stories - "Toxic"

18 mins; April 12, 2023

Forty Stories - "Great Blue Heron"

17 mins; March 29, 2023

See you soon!

1 min; March 25, 2023

Forty Stories - "Sentimental Items"

19 mins; March 15, 2023

Cooper's Sick! So Tabatha reads The Tale of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter

9 mins; March 08, 2023

Forty Stories - "Flow"

20 mins; March 01, 2023

SPECIAL GUEST HOST - Tabatha interviews Cooper!

15 mins; February 22, 2023

Forty Stories - "Frog Pond"

18 mins; February 15, 2023

Part 2: Selling Point by Norman Arkawy

21 mins; February 08, 2023

Part 1: Selling Point, by Norman Arkawy

18 mins; February 01, 2023

Forty Stories - "Cold Feet"

22 mins; January 25, 2023

Forty Stories - "Mustang"

22 mins; January 18, 2023

Forty Stories - "Sleigh Ride Together"

21 mins; January 11, 2023

Forty Stories - "One"

22 mins; January 04, 2023

Conversations with Tabatha (01)

21 mins; December 28, 2022

'Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit from St. Nicholas) by Clement Clarke Moore

20 mins; December 21, 2022

The Gift of the Magi, part 2 by O. Henry

19 mins; December 14, 2022

The Gift of the Magi, part 1 by O. Henry

21 mins; December 07, 2022

Part 2: Beyond the Door

20 mins; November 30, 2022

Part 1: Beyond the Door

20 mins; November 23, 2022

Part 4: The Hanging Stranger

22 mins; November 16, 2022

Part 3: The Hanging Stranger

23 mins; November 09, 2022

Part 2: The Hanging Stranger

24 mins; November 02, 2022

It's a whole new word of science fiction. Super dark, kinda scary. Very weird! Philip K Dick is awesome.y fun! Enjoy it, everyone!

28 mins; October 26, 2022

Part Two: Winnie-the-Pooh, Chapter X: In Which Christopher Robin Gives Pooh a Party, and We Say Goodbye

21 mins; October 19, 2022

Part One: Winnie-the-Pooh Chapter X: In Which Christopher Robin Gives Pooh a Party, and We Say Goodbye

20 mins; October 12, 2022

Part Two: Winnie-the-Pooh Chapter IX: In Which Piglet is Entirely Surrounded by Water

22 mins; October 05, 2022

Part One: Winnie-the-Pooh Chapter IX: In Which Piglet is Entirely Surrounded by Water

21 mins; September 28, 2022

Winnie-the-Pooh, Chapter VIII: In Which Christopher Robin Leads an Expotition to the North Pole

35 mins; September 21, 2022

Winnie-the-Pooh, Chapter VII: In Which Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest, and Piglet Has a Bath

36 mins; September 14, 2022

Winnie-the-Pooh Chapter VI: In Which Eeyore Has a Birthday and Gets Two Presents

39 mins; September 07, 2022

Winnie-the-Pooh Chapter V: In Which Piglet Meets a Heffalump

31 mins; August 31, 2022

Winnie-the-Pooh, Chapter IV: In Which Eeyore Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One

24 mins; August 24, 2022

Winnie-the-Pooh, Chapter III: In Which Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting and Nearly Catch a Woozle

21 mins; August 17, 2022

Winnie-the-Pooh Chapter II: In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets Into a Tight Place

24 mins; August 10, 2022

Winnie-the-Pooh Chapter I: In Which We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees, and the Stories Begin

31 mins; August 03, 2022

A Little English - Coming Soon!

2 mins; July 19, 2022

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