The Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba by Dorothy L. Sayers

[@gillianlongano5835]

Dorothy Sayers wrote brilliant stories, MJam is a marvellous, skilled reader! I love listening to those golden age lady writers👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Thank you!

[@tessaoshea5697]

Love the reader and doubly grateful that he's a real person with accurate accents

[@classicdetective]

This was a good one

[@screamtoasigh9984]

It's terrible. Wet and lispy

[@gisellebaptiste]

Loved the narration! as always the guest narrators are awesome! I really look forward to your commentary as well. Indeed looking back through our current world view lens makes things look "uglier" than they were probably intended to be but they can also show how inspiring and pivotal the roles our forebears played in shaping our world really is. Thanks again for an awesome episode.

[@martiwilliams4592]

Delightful narration, love the "ramblings ! Very entertaining! Much needed and appreciated-many thanks to you both!

[@classicdetective]

Our pleasure!

[@judikingsman6132]

Mrs Sayers died in December 1957. I really enjoy her work. And I really enjoy this narrator. 😁💙

[@ainaguru4986]

fantastic story and narrator

[@classicdetective]

Thanks for listening

[@StoryVoracious]

Thanks Tony. I struggle to get through a detective story, but I enjoyed this one. I loved the tech' in this, and the fact that it was explained. Well done Mrs S. In our house we only watch "cozy crime", there is a strict "No Graphic Violence" code to telly watching, so this meets with the code. Sadly there is still a pronounced discrepency in female wages to male, the whole world over. I hope that too will change soon. Thanks Matthew. 🙏👍👋

[@johnt.inscrutable1545]

I totally get into your explication after each story. And when you amble into the etymology of words as in this one I get all linguistically nerdy. I have studied several languages before getting further into linguistics. Languages can tell so much about a people by way of word choices, sound variation even within a dialect, what’s most important to some groups by how many words they may have for what others see only as one thing. But if something is important to the groups survival the group develops more gradations of descriptive words for that thing or concept. This could go on and on. Language has its own anthropology. In another of these you mentioned that people often enjoy walking away from a read/listen having learned something along the way. I believe that indeed. I find the books I remember most are those that gave me the most high protein brain food and were not just full of empty calories. Thanks for taking the time to go the extra mile, kilometer, or furlong in this recordings.

[@hopscotchtop]

Thank you for the story I had forgotten about this one.

[@doglover7390]

Enjoyed this.

[@SMichaelDeHart]

I've been listening to both your older stories and Matthew Jones older stories. Excellent book and fantastic narration.

[@MadonnaGrogan]

Wonderfull period drama, loved it, thank you

[@davidhudson5251]

Love your commentary!

[@classicdetective]

Thank you

[@shadownet3d]

A great story. I love your comments also on then vs now and the mistake of interpreting the past through our modern perspective.

[@davidhudson5251]

You highlight in your commentary the contrast between the social and cultural perspectives of these period pieces and those of our times. What I find bewildering is the creation of so many new stories (otherwise good) in period settings but reflecting modern social and cultural sensibilities. Many or most of the mysteries that I find in my feed reflect this tendency.

[@classicdetective]

very good point

[@angel22893]

Wow! A Peter Wibsey story I didn't know, thanks ❤

[@stewartlancaster6155]

Wimsey

[@veronicamaria2730]

Reference to phone taps, plastic surgery, voice recognition . . . pretty sophisticated for 1928!

[@teresagoodman-walters7720]

And accurate. The elites are at minimum a century ahead of the rest of us

[@judikingsman6132]

Superb‼️💙

[@catherinetulk8884]

The narrator's voice reminds me of the father in the show, THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY. Indeed, even the numbering of the adopted family members is similar. I have thoroughly enjoyed the story and the narrator.

[@educatedstockham3558]

Speaking as the narrator, thank you. I shall go out and buy an umbrella at once :)

[@stephaniehand503]

great

[@Bambisgf77]

Love the accent 😁

[@MaggieatPlay]

I enjoy a Dorothy Sayers story. Sadly, I personally find the narrator's voice grating to my ears and brain; and cannot continue listening. Thanks, Tony, for the effort of finding a reader and posting the story.

[@thurayya8905]

I agree. I like this narrator, but not in this story. I need Tony's voice to listen to a long story. I was very excited until I realized Tony wasn't reading. There's no problem with the accent, so I don't understand why.

[@rohinisrs]

I think it is the speed. 0.75 is too slow, but much better than at full speed.

[@MaggieatPlay]

@@rohinisrs how does one increase the speed?

[@johnmichaelfitzgerald3052]

@@MaggieatPlay in playback settings.. cheers from Melbourne Australia 🦘

[@MaggieatPlay]

@@johnmichaelfitzgerald3052 Oh, so much better! Thank you! Cheers from Oregon USA

[@wherami]

Dorothy will be remembered long after England is submerged and gone

[@stewartlancaster6155]

by whom ?

[@marybentley4926]

Dorothy sayers - the mystery writer for the the intellectual . This one had hardly any literary allusions except for the Arabian nights reference , but still her brain was fascinating . Her faith and friendship with C.S. Lewis are another focus of my interest . 1:13:59

[@classicdetective]

I read this today in Slightly Foxed: "Vicarage life could, however, be simply inspirational, with no concomitant trauma. Dorothy L. Sayers grew up relatively unscathed in another Lincolnshire rectory, the pampered only child of Oxford intellectuals. She managed to keep her sanity in a land of deeply suspicious Nonconformists, where the waters of the splashily capricious River Ouse rose and fell perilously (and usually after dark), giving a sinister and mysterious setting to several of her excellent detective novels. "

[@marshamellows2908]

What are our future projections today? Mostly apocalyptic or void.

[@rAndomlight1069]

She stayed up all night, wondering if there was really a Dog😂

[@rAndomlight1069]

Don't look back in anger, i hear you say...

[@daftirishmarej1827]

Well read, however, the 'f' instead of 'th' makes me cringe. Like yourself, I taught languages and you're right; it sounds odd but you get a deeper meaning into words (like their history and how the Latin words are often understood more easily. For example 'hard' as an adjective. 'difficult' is often far easier for students) Thanks as always for your waffle 😊

[@ropeburnsrussell]

The audio was too low on the story, i could hear Tony just fine.

[@geoffreypiltz271]

I didn't know this story, it's not well known and I can see why.

[@tessaoshea5697]

Any chance of some Chandler or Simenon?

[@classicdetective]

yes more of both on the list. check for those we’ve already done

[@rAndomlight1069]

Did you hear about the dyslexic, agnostic insomniac?

[@feralbluee]

3:45 Lord Peter dies at 37!!!!!! that’s ridiculous!

[@HarrimanLennon-o1c]

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[@ainemoroney9965]

First! 😁

[@neilharrison01]

Hmm...I found the narrator's voice clipped and jarring....gave up...shame.

[@MaggieatPlay]

Thanks to @johnmichaelfitzgerald3052 , I was able to change the speed setting and made the sound so much better. Thank you for this story.