NOCTRANS Ep 14 - 'The Tell-Tale Heart'

NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS : dark tales, both old and new, performed by voice artist Kristin Holland

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🗓️ 7 October 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

To commemorate the anniversary of the death of Edgar Allen Poe, NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS presents 'THE TELL-TALE HEART'.

First published in 1843 this story is one of the most renown and popular of his macabre tales.

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0:00.0	Hello, gentle listener, and welcome to nocturnal transmissions.
0:14.0	As mentioned in our previous episode, we have a little something extra to off you this week.
0:19.7	In addition to our spooky spooky 13th episode released on Tuesday just past,
0:25.7	we are also releasing an additional episode in honour of the great Edgar Allan Poe,
0:32.1	who died on this date, the 7th of October 168 years ago. And what a death it was, passing away in
0:42.4	hospital four incoherent days after having being found on the street, distressed and delirious,
0:49.0	clad in garments, clearly not his own. The cause of this sad and baffling demise is still the subject of much
0:56.7	conjecture. It is supposed that he may have fallen foul of alcoholism, rabies, cooping, a practice
1:03.7	by which political gangs rounded up groups of innocence and through beating and plying with alcohol,
1:09.3	force them to vote repeatedly for the gang's
1:11.5	favoured candidate. Tuberculosis, epilepsy, diabetes, a beating solicited by a slighted
1:18.4	female associate, brain tumor, syphilis, the list goes on. But while the manner of his death
1:25.3	remains clouded and obscure, the quality of his writing and the significance of his contribution to literature is in no doubt whatsoever.
1:35.2	The black cat, the raven, the cask of a montalado, Berenice, the goldbug, the mask of the red death, the murders in the Rue Morg, which gained him the appellation father of the detective story,
1:47.4	the pit and the pendulum, the premature burial, the fall of the house of usher,
1:52.5	any lover of tales of mystery in the macabre will be familiar with these
1:56.9	and many more of his renowned titles.
2:01.0	The particular tale we have chosen to celebrate in this episode is one that we think
2:06.4	captures both his macabre sensibility and his wicked playfulness.
2:13.2	Nocturnal transmissions is very proud to present.
2:18.4	The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe.
2:27.4	True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous, I had been and am.
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