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"Agent Heine: The Man from the Stars", by Edgar Wallace
From Michael Henrik Wynn | 32:59
Michael Henrik Wynn (me) reads a very funny first world war satire by Edgar Wallace, the man who created King Kong.
Edgar Wallace, now remembered as a writer of crime novels and thrilers and the creator of King Kong wrote some very funny first person narratives during the first world war. In this piece Michael Henrik Wynn does a little comedy acting in order to bring out the inept German agent stationed i London, trying to organize sabotage and bring accurate information back to London. As long as you attribute the piece to Historyradio.org and the reader as Michael Henrik Wynn, you can use it freely. Feel free also to remove the robot voices and the start and the end, and the historyradio.org jingle.
"Where?" by Stein Riverton
From Michael Henrik Wynn | 22:32
A reading of "where?", a poignant Norwegian crime story from 1927 translated by Michael Henrik Wynn, and read by a hired reader.
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This story is taken from Stein Riverton's 1927 collection "Himmel og Hav" (Sky and Ocean)
It normally features in Norwegian anthologies for several reasons. It sees the crime from the perspective of victims at a time in history when this was not common. The dominant styles at the time were the cozy crime puzzles of Agatha Christie, or the stylized returning soldier turned urban noir detective in the US. There has been some discussion in The Guardian as to whether Agatha Christie borrowed her story for The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) from a novel called The Iron Chariot (1909) by Stein Riverton.
Stein Riverton (1884-1934, real name "Sven Elvestad") is in many ways a founder of modern Norwegian crime fiction . He was almost 2 meters tall, severly sight impaired, homosexual according to one biography, and an alcoholic.
The reader is John Carrick, a man I have never met but hired on Fiverr. He has been paid, but in order to avoid misunderstandings, please contact me before using this reading. If you wish to make your on reading of the story, feel free to use the text in the fiction section of historyradio.org. Just attribute Michael Henrik Wynn (me) as the translator.
"To the Harvard pathologist who sold body-parts online", a poem By Michael Henrik Wynn
From Michael Henrik Wynn | 03:47
A reading of a satirical poem by Michael Henrik Wynn. The poem is dedicated to the Harvard pathologist who recently was caught peddling body parts on the internet. I just thought the news story a little peculiar. It is not offensive in any way whatsoever.
A reading of a satirical poem by Michael Henrik Wynn (me). The poem is dedicated to the Harvard pathologist who recently was caught peddling body parts on the internet. I just thought the news story a little peculiar. It is not offensive in any way whatsoever. I added sound effects, some musopen classical music, and wind. It turned out ok, i think.
"The Doctor", written and narrated by Michael Henrik Wynn
From Michael Henrik Wynn | 13:36
This is my reading of my own short story. It is a sort of horror story set in Victorian London.
This story, like most of my stories, is destilled emotion, which means that all oppostions are sharpened in order to make them visible. There is not much space in a sort story for the nuances that we all know dominate our lives. But as a narrative it turned out quite well. and I am also fairly satisfied with the narration and sound editing I did.
"Feng Menglong's Judge Bao traces the footsteps of a spirit", interpreted by Michael Henrik Wynn
From Michael Henrik Wynn | 39:50
The emergence of the crime fiction genre is linked to the growth of the modern legal system. In Germany, there were the true crime stories of August Gottlieb Meißner (1753-1807), in France Vidocq ( 1775-1857) and in Britain the Newgate Diaries.
China has one of the oldest bureaucracies on earth. In this video, Michael Henrik Wynn gives his interpretation of a classic story about the legendary Judge Bao, a real life character from the early middle ages who was transformed by fiction into a Chinese Sherlock Holmes. This interpretation uses the Feng Menglong (1574-1646) version of the story as a foundation, and includes all the elements of that legend. But it is not a direct translation.
The emergence of the crime fiction genre is linked to the growth of the modern legal system. In Germany, there were the true crime stories of August Gottlieb Meißner (1753-1807), in France Vidocq ( 1775-1857) and in Britain the Newgate Diaries.
China has one of the oldest bureaucracies on earth. In this video, Michael Henrik Wynn gives his interpretation of a classic story about the legendary Judge Bao, a real life character from the early middle ages who was transformed by fiction into a Chinese Sherlock Holmes. This interpretation uses the Feng Menglong (1574-1646) version of the story as a foundation, and includes all the elements of that legend. But it is not a direct translation.