The Secret Garden | A Father Brown Story by G. K. Chesterton | A Bitesized Audiobook

[@BitesizedAudio]

One of the most celebrated Father Brown stories, an outdoor "locked room" mystery in which a body is discovered in a sealed garden. But with no access to the outside world how did the victim get into the garden - and how did the murderer get out? Story begins at 00:01:20 Narrated/performed by Simon Stanhope, aka Bitesized Audio. If you enjoy this content and would like to help me keep creating, there are a few ways you can support me (and get access to exclusive content): * Occasional/one-off support via Buy Me a Coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/bitesizedaudio * Monthly support on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bitesizedaudio * Visit my Bandcamp page to hear more of my performances of classic stories, and you can purchase and download high quality audio files to listen offline: bitesizedaudio.bandcamp.com/ * Become a Bitesized Audio Classics member on KZbin, from $1 / £1 / €1 per month: kzbin.infojoin

[@binkybunnysway943]

So happy to find uour channel I'm addicted already

[@JohnMackay-kn3rl]

Excellent Narrator

[@veritas6335]

So, these men haul a headless body "to a sofa in the study?" What homeowner permits such a thing and what idiots even think of befouling someone's fine furniture with a bloody corpse, especially a headless one? Really. That's idiotic.

[@sylvi73]

I will enjoy your story tonight! You have such a great voice for story telling. and book reading.

[@saran.4001]

Thank you, Simon. I enjoyed it very much. It is so peaceful to listen to your perfect pronunciations, even if the subject is decapitation.

[@athenaathena1307]

Great story and performance Simon. Many thanks 😊👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@ribbonyobski5881]

I am so lucky to find your channel

[@BitesizedAudio]

Thanks so much for your support, I really appreciate it!

[@user-OA4Recovery10]

Thank you so much for Chesterton’ s stories. Love Father Brown. Just discovered your channel on KZbin. Can’t get enough. Have listened to other stories that CURLED my hair and made the hair on back of my neck stand up!!!!!!

[@BitesizedAudio]

Welcome to the channel, and thank you for listening!

[@Puckshollow]

Oh joy father brown!

[@ribbonyobski5881]

Listening to GK Chesterton read by Simon Stanhope hits the same notes in my brain as listening to Douglas Adams reading from The Hitchhikers guide...

[@christinemarshall1366]

Very enjoyable. Excellent narration, Thank you

[@leriava]

Thanks for another treat ❤

[@olivemd]

Thank you. I’ve fallen to sleep many times listening to this book. Maybe tonight I can finish it. Only 14 minutes left and I’m wide awake. I enjoyed this story.

[@Nsexpt]

Chesterton‘s descriptions of the various people are of the most remarkable. A few sentences and you really get an image of who he’s talking about.

[@garyfrancis6193]

Faulty pronunciation.

[@moonlover2022]

I love your intro!

[@BitesizedAudio]

Thank you, much appreciated!

[@susanrascone2098]

I just started this but have listened to a lot of your narrations. Did you narrate the Somerset Maugham stories? I wondered if it was you or AI using your voice.

[@BitesizedAudio]

It wasn't me, no. A few people have said that it sounds like me, but it's a stock AI voice as far as I can tell - I'm afraid I can't bring myself to listen to AI narration for very long! Also that channel is being rather cheeky doing Somerset Maugham at all: I like his work a lot and would love to record some for the channel, but his work is still under copyright for several years yet... I suspect whoever's running that AI channel haven't sought permission or paid his estate!

[@susanrascone2098]

@@BitesizedAudio Oh no kidding! I thought it wasn’t you as something would be pronounced properly then it would be wrong.

[@helenwright6133]

Stumbled across your fabulous channel - many thanks for the wonderful content and narration - true escapism - thankyou

[@BitesizedAudio]

Welcome to the channel Helen, thanks for listening and for your kind comments

[@timothyeldridge6822]

I enjoyed your performance of this story!

[@BitesizedAudio]

Thank you very much!

[@garyfrancis6193]

Ispired idea.

[@Katya-zj7ni]

Beautifully read and a wonderful story ❤

[@BitesizedAudio]

Thank you so much!

[@gustavolastra101]

Hi. Simon I am enjoying tour reading so.much. I am a student of english trying to improve my pronunciation listening AND readung comprehension. I would really appreciate to get the versión of this tale..The Secret guarden you hace read un order to read it AND to practice shadowing (try to read some sentences or paragraphs at the same Time I listen to ..)Could you tell me how can I get the same text? Thanks a Lot AND congratulations for tour Great perfomance!

[@BitesizedAudio]

Hello Gustavo, thank you for your comment. I use a variety of different sources for the readings, the most reliable ones are Project Gutenberg and Wikisource. From memory, I'm fairly sure the text I read here was taken from Wikisource, which is available to read here: en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Innocence_of_Father_Brown/The_Secret_Garden However, just to make you aware, there are sometimes typos and/or slight variations in the texts between different sources, so I try to check as far as possible against a printed text (I have a Penguin paperback edition of The Innocence of Father Brown'). This may mean there are slight variations between the Wikisource text and what I've read here. I hope that helps! Best wishes

[@michaelshea5165]

Thanks!

[@BitesizedAudio]

Thank you for the super thanks! Much appreciated

[@michaelshea5165]

@@BitesizedAudio You're the best, Simon. Thank YOU!