Thank you Tony for another brilliant story. As a Glaswegian, I was impressed by your narration with a Scottish accent. Love the bio summaries of the authors you do at the end. Going thru chemo , listening to your stories keeps me going.
Me too, on the chemo (for blood cancer). I usually succeed in ignoring the cancer and just going about my tasks normally, and programmes like Tony's readings helps a lot in doing that. Much luck to you, hope your treatment has good outcome.
I LOVED your accent. I could listen to you talk for hours ANY day in ANY accent. Your voice is very smooth and your reading style is excellent. I will definitely recommend your channel to everyone.🎉 God Bless!
Excellent cadence and excellent vowels in the Glaswegian portions! That alone merits 10 stars out of 10. Very enjoyable, thank you much. You are a gift to us eager listeners.
I read Of Human Bondage when I was too young, really. The main character had a club foot; he prayed and prayed for God to heal him. Prayer was not answered. It soured me on religion for many years. The power of books! This story is good although not surprising. Thanks, always enjoy your readings.
Great story and your accents really brought it to life. Thank You for always being so thorough in your research and when you relate facts, I'm always learning new things from you. Especially like when you share your experiences and of course the puppies. 😉❤️
Oooh where to begin..?! The Glasgow accent!! You did a fine job, exactly as I would expect ☺ I enjoyed the tale mainly due to that fine rendering ! And followed by one of your finest rambles, where I found myself much in agreement on the state of our tiny rural communities..and the joys of walking. I don't drive, so largely explore the world on foot, and I believe it gives a different perspective on places and distances. I've often imagined myself peddling my wares, walking from village to village, stopping at wayside inns, back in olden times. It's very easy to slip into that frame of mind when you're walking isolated areas away from the usual signs of the present day - it feels as though the past is very close, just out of sight, but so easily accessible. As though a time- slip could happen any moment. Puppy names - I like Sore Foot!! Very North American Indian 😃 Happy Easter!
Again, thanks Tony. Your narrations, your story choices and waffles are a welcome tonic for me. Imagine others agree. The best of fortune to your house.
I could listen to talk for hours, all the tangents and insights are just brilliant, love the stories too. By the way I'm not a paid member but still heard the story, happy that I did but thought you should know. Happy Easter everyone 💐💜💐
Neat story and great narration, thanks! The same thing you said about shops closing in the country is happening in America as well. So many shops and businesses have shuttered in small towns. My town, once bustling, has essentially withered away. Keep up the good work!
One of my favorite authors. I have two big books of short stories by Maugham. Yes I know, a snob and mysosynist. Maugham and Graham Greene favorite British authors. I read all his books. What I liked was often there was a twist in the story that evolved from some complex human behavior that took one aback at the end of the story. I love the movies based on Maugham too: like the shocking "Rain" with Joan Crawford and "The Painted Veil" . I really appreciate these stories being told in storyteller tradition. It was a 100 degree day here today so I just lay listening with the fan on. 37:51
Tony, your telling of this story is magnificent! I'm glad I listened to it as I was making a pot of soup, because I had a knife in my hand the whole time just in case. 😉
Some Accents are sometimes a little challenging for non native speakers, but they add so much authenticity and dramatizing value they elevate. the whole story in so many ways.
You are so delightful. Never apologize for your accent. They’re amazing. Thanks for your affectionate charming conversation even though it’s only one way lol 46:01
Thank you so much for sharing this story and the explanation about border reivers. In the States we use the expression "rip off" to describe thievery. I didn't know reive meant to rip off.
Thank you. I found you by accident and you should be the one reading all the stories. I know the part of the world you're talking about, used to go up there every September camping: we used to call it Bandit country.
I did my 7% solution then i hit play and i was enthralled from start to finish. Fuckin a bro that was awesome i loved the scott you really brought him life also your stories are becoming a nightly ritual for me 🙈🙉🙊
My daughter (here in the states) is dating Scottish college student whose going home for 2 months. If they're relationship grows I'm going to visit the areas of Scotland you've been. We have Scot blood in our ancestry. Let's hope ❤ grows!
the internet search engines have deteriorated vastly since their arrival. if they get any worse, people will once again resort to reading books. in libraries. perish the thought.
Am I a Member and didn't know it? I did buy you some coffees a year or two ago, and a T-shirt, and a small donation for "The Haunting of Hill House"...or did you, in a fit of generosity, publish this one to the freebies on RUclips? Whatever, I really enjoyed your Scottish dialect very much. Thanks for the Maugham!
Is this a new thing, the absence of the intro? Something about that intro disturbed me so I always skipped thru it. On this post it wasn’t there. Can’t say I miss it ☺️🎉 excellent narration as always.
I'd say Maugham was a cruel man who was capable of great wit rather than the other way around. Many of his stories are real-life gossip thinly disguised as literature, and many of them are grotesque and bitchy as hell. Compare him to other social commentators like Priestly, Shaw, Hardy, Dickens, and Austin and I don't think he stands up that well to modern scrutiny. That isn't to say they aren't enjoyable to read and his writing is pithy and witty and this story is one of his more enjoyable offerings thank you for recording it
I thought the accent was good! Honestly, my Dad was from Glasgow and if he read that many people would not understand him anyway! I swear there were times I looked at him and said " I have not understood a word you have said for the last five minutes".
This sounds amazing, I'm a bisexuality woman, even though its much easier to come out these days, I'm also a Catholic, my dad died not knowing the real me, I only came out when I moved from Lancashire to Milton Keynes, it's so diverse here that I am totally comfortable with who I am and I can say that I love the real me , I just felt I could share my story with you, love your work sweetie 🙏🌈
I've never understood the whole "coming out" thing. I'm personally very private and don't share my preferences with any beyond my closest friends. But, to each their own.
The small country towns are dying in the U.S. as well. It is very difficult trying to survive with farming and there few other industries, in small towns. Great accent too, btw. For me, as an American, I have to really focus to understand a good Scottish accent (Glasgow accent?). I had to pay attention to you. No casual listening for me from across the pond.
So what the most of what I'm hearing from people about my sexuality is to crawl back into the closet, so we definitely haven't moved forward in life, we should shut up and go away, WOW !!!
However you are is perfect. We all cling to our own realities and defend them vehemently from behind our ramparts. I sympathise that you feel attacked for speaking out where you felt safe. We all have to suffer slings and arrows sometimes. After all we're all still a bunch of glorified apes in modern trees. (I am guilty of attacking hunters and fur fanciers). You are brave, creative and 100% you, and that's great.
@@StoryVoracious thank you April for your kind words, my daughter said not to take any notice of these negative people, and that they don't know the person I am inside, some people are just ignorant, I'm happy and that's what counts , 🙏💘
The Maughm bio states that he was openly gay and in the next paragraph points out that Maughm kept his homosexuality a secret. Is that not a contradiction ?
Not to be pedantic but how could he be both "openly gay" and also keep his "sexuality a secret most of his life"? Also why does the narrator say it's not a full moon to the man from Glasgow when he states it is a full moon at the start of the story? Am I missing the whole point?
I believe the accent is somewhat overdone. So much so that parts are un-understandable. What's the point of narrating a story in an accent so thick no one knows what you're saying?
Ok so I didn't realize that you sometimes talk after the stories! I have so much to go back and listen to, haha.. For the record, I'd name my dog Jake :) This was a wonderful story, Tony. Your Glaswegian accent was brilliant, you absolute legend. Your voice is quickly becoming my favorite
Nothing beats listening to Tony's stories while I'm recovering from a cold. Food for the spirit
Thank you Tony for another brilliant story. As a Glaswegian, I was impressed by your narration with a Scottish accent. Love the bio summaries of the authors you do at the end. Going thru chemo , listening to your stories keeps me going.
Keep your head up. I recently supported my mum through treatment. I wish you all the best. ❤️
Me too, on the chemo (for blood cancer). I usually succeed in ignoring the cancer and just going about my tasks normally, and programmes like Tony's readings helps a lot in doing that. Much luck to you, hope your treatment has good outcome.
@@footfault thank you so much. Mine is blood cancer too. Wishing you so much luck and healing
Love Maugham's short stories.
Thank you Tony!
Really enjoyed the story. Even more I enjoyed your chat afterwards. Thank you.
I LOVED your accent. I could listen to you talk for hours ANY day in ANY accent. Your voice is very smooth and your reading style is excellent. I will definitely recommend your channel to everyone.🎉 God Bless!
Thank you! 😃 I do appreciate it
Excellent cadence and excellent vowels in the Glaswegian portions! That alone merits 10 stars out of 10. Very enjoyable, thank you much. You are a gift to us eager listeners.
Kevin Bridges and Limmy
Your Glaswegian accent is amazing !! I'm so very glad I found your channel a year ago....I've enjoyed every single story you have narrated ❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much!
If you think that accent is glasgow, you have never been near the Clyde.
I have a good friend from Glasgow and you sound just like him! Very impressive reading, Tony.
I read Of Human Bondage when I was too young, really. The main character had a club foot; he prayed and prayed for God to heal him. Prayer was not answered. It soured me on religion for many years. The power of books! This story is good although not surprising. Thanks, always enjoy your readings.
Great story and your accents really brought it to life. Thank You for always being so thorough in your research and when you relate facts, I'm always learning new things from you. Especially like when you share your experiences and of course the puppies. 😉❤️
You speaking of estuaries made me think of a Daphne DuMaurier. The house on the strand. The back and forth in time keeps it quite interesting.
Fantastic. Masterful, as always. Thank you, Tony.
My pleasure! Hope you are well
Maugham is one of my favorite authors, and I didn't know he wrote any ghost stories.
If you haven't already, I recommend reading "The Magician." Honestly, it gave me chills the first time I read it.
I have read it, but I didn't consider it a ghost story.@@slukas1375
@@slukas1375based supposedly on Alastair Crowley
Being American I thought yours scots accent was amazing. As always Ioved the post story talk.
Let's see what the Scots think :) But thank you.
Oooh where to begin..?! The Glasgow accent!! You did a fine job, exactly as I would expect ☺ I enjoyed the tale mainly due to that fine rendering !
And followed by one of your finest rambles, where I found myself much in agreement on the state of our tiny rural communities..and the joys of walking. I don't drive, so largely explore the world on foot, and I believe it gives a different perspective on places and distances. I've often imagined myself peddling my wares, walking from village to village, stopping at wayside inns, back in olden times. It's very easy to slip into that frame of mind when you're walking isolated areas away from the usual signs of the present day - it feels as though the past is very close, just out of sight, but so easily accessible. As though a time- slip could happen any moment.
Puppy names - I like Sore Foot!! Very North American Indian 😃
Happy Easter!
Happy Easter. It was a great walk. I'm doing to do more, but the puppies are still very small, so not for a while
Again, thanks Tony. Your narrations, your story choices and waffles are a welcome tonic for me. Imagine others agree. The best of fortune to your house.
Thank you
I could listen to talk for hours, all the tangents and insights are just brilliant, love the stories too. By the way I'm not a paid member but still heard the story, happy that I did but thought you should know. Happy Easter everyone 💐💜💐
Glad you enjoyed it!
Neat story and great narration, thanks!
The same thing you said about shops closing in the country is happening in America as well. So many shops and businesses have shuttered in small towns. My town, once bustling, has essentially withered away.
Keep up the good work!
Thank you, Tony, Love the accent. very enjoyable.
Enjoyed the story and the afterthoughts. Thank you Tony!
Thanks
Thank you ✌️🙏
Great job with the with the Glasgow accent. I enjoyed the reading and the information about Somerset Maugham
A great read Tony! Thanks 👍
Thanks a lot . It was so splendid to hear the reading with such a wonderful accent. It has been really enjoyable.
One of my favorite authors. I have two big books of short stories by Maugham. Yes I know, a snob and mysosynist. Maugham and Graham Greene favorite British authors. I read all his books. What I liked was often there was a twist in the story that evolved from some complex human behavior that took one aback at the end of the story. I love the movies based on Maugham too: like the shocking "Rain" with Joan Crawford and "The Painted Veil" . I really appreciate these stories being told in storyteller tradition. It was a 100 degree day here today so I just lay listening with the fan on. 37:51
Brilliant, and truly eerie. Thank you so much!
Excellent! Thank you Goodman Tony the Wandering Bard. :-)
That’s who I aspire to be ;)
Really good listening to your tales of travel & adventures. Thanks for all the research.
Great story! Thank you 🙏. Really scary - I’ve listened to it 4 times. I love your Glaswegian accent - I can envision him ❤
Just smoked a j - perfect upload time.
Always love the Scottish accent. 🖤
Great story Tony. You narrate so believable, you captures my attention right from the 1st few words. You do a Scottish accent so well. Thanks again.
Thank you so much 😊 blessings of abundance!
You are so welcome
Same to you!
Thank you Tony! 👻😊
That was a top-notch ramble at the end! It’s funny… I support on Patreon but always listen on RUclips 🤷♀️
Ditto this time around. Love the accent!
Tony, your telling of this story is magnificent! I'm glad I listened to it as I was making a pot of soup, because I had a knife in my hand the whole time just in case. 😉
Good thinking. I usually carry a knife when I'm making tea too.
Tony just so you know I am not a member and I was able to find and listen to this video. Thank you for the readings.
Loved it ❤❤❤❤❤
My Father in Law is from Glasgow. What an accent ❤️ Great tale as always, Tony- many thanks! 🙏
I was very nervous about doing it. I was channel g Kevin Bridges and my mate Brendan
Some Accents are sometimes a little challenging for non native speakers, but they add so much authenticity and dramatizing value they elevate. the whole story in so many ways.
Welcome back to my feed! I don't know where u went, but I've missed you!
I going to enjoy this! 😊
The RUclips algorithms are mysterious
Please do NOT lose the Natural accent! Partly why I love this podcast. Love the channel
Well done!
You are so delightful. Never apologize for your accent. They’re amazing. Thanks for your affectionate charming conversation even though it’s only one way lol 46:01
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Thank you so much for sharing this story and the explanation about border reivers. In the States we use the expression "rip off" to describe thievery. I didn't know reive meant to rip off.
Good job Tony
Thank you. I found you by accident and you should be the one reading all the stories. I know the part of the world you're talking about, used to go up there every September camping: we used to call it Bandit country.
Bandit country!
So good.xx😊
What a performance!
This intro is perfect. Creepy as all get out! Much better, in my opinion. Back to the story now, just wrote this to comment on this new intro ;)
As a Glaswegian, I give the reader's Glasgow accent 9 out of 10. It is a hard accent to get right and the reader does it well.
Thank you Peter. I was in Glasgow on Friday staying in Finnieston. everyone in Glasgow is so nice to me always.
Oi..you dissing my border reiver ancestors!!?? 😜 😂 Great story and fab accent...and love the chat at the end...always interesting and makes me smile
An Elliott! Plenty of Elliotts round here :) I’m descended from Armstrongs
love the accent!
One pint in every pub: you'll be on the floor by the last pub
Thanks, another well-read tale.
Have you read George MacDonald Fraser's book about the border reivers?
years ago I did.
I did my 7% solution then i hit play and i was enthralled from start to finish. Fuckin a bro that was awesome i loved the scott you really brought him life also your stories are becoming a nightly ritual for me 🙈🙉🙊
See you tonight :)
The story is good, but your accent is so amazing and enjoyable to hear. I wonder how long it takes you to get each of your accents down pat?
My daughter (here in the states) is dating Scottish college student whose going home for 2 months. If they're relationship grows I'm going to visit the areas of Scotland you've been. We have Scot blood in our ancestry. Let's hope ❤ grows!
Listening to the dog naming thoughts, knowing how it played out in the end 😅😂😂
You know! They are lounging beside me now. They've been out with their sisters and mum who has had to discipline them.
the internet search engines have deteriorated vastly since their arrival. if they get any worse, people will once again resort to reading books. in libraries. perish the thought.
Please tell me you call that dog Sawfoot. That’s the best and the comment about the dog being green…. I almost wrecked my car laughing.
His foot is a lot better now. He's called Jasper now.
Am I a Member and didn't know it? I did buy you some coffees a year or two ago, and a T-shirt, and a small donation for "The Haunting of Hill House"...or did you, in a fit of generosity, publish this one to the freebies on RUclips? Whatever, I really enjoyed your Scottish dialect very much. Thanks for the Maugham!
I think I made a mistake and published a members only story as an ordinary one then I felt including take it back
When are you gonna do Through the gates of the silver key ?
Well. Now you’ve said
Is this a new thing, the absence of the intro? Something about that intro disturbed me so I always skipped thru it. On this post it wasn’t there. Can’t say I miss it ☺️🎉 excellent narration as always.
it was a members only story so it had a different intro. but by mistake i posted it to everyone
I'd say Maugham was a cruel man who was capable of great wit rather than the other way around. Many of his stories are real-life gossip thinly disguised as literature, and many of them are grotesque and bitchy as hell. Compare him to other social commentators like Priestly, Shaw, Hardy, Dickens, and Austin and I don't think he stands up that well to modern scrutiny. That isn't to say they aren't enjoyable to read and his writing is pithy and witty and this story is one of his more enjoyable offerings thank you for recording it
What is your other channel?
www.youtube.com/@late-night-sleep-radio
How did I end up in this conversation? - pretty much my mantra.
Great Scottish accent ❤
not everyone agrees, but I enjoyed doing it.
What is a dish of burning ashes?
I'm not actually sure.
Not unlike a small fire pit with legs.
Great accents.
I thought the accent was good! Honestly, my Dad was from Glasgow and if he read that many people would not understand him anyway! I swear there were times I looked at him and said " I have not understood a word you have said for the last five minutes".
A fine Scottish brogue indeed.
i’m going to do a pirate story next
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This sounds amazing, I'm a bisexuality woman, even though its much easier to come out these days, I'm also a Catholic, my dad died not knowing the real me, I only came out when I moved from Lancashire to Milton Keynes, it's so diverse here that I am totally comfortable with who I am and I can say that I love the real me , I just felt I could share my story with you, love your work sweetie 🙏🌈
I've never understood the whole "coming out" thing. I'm personally very private and don't share my preferences with any beyond my closest friends. But, to each their own.
What makes you think we are interested in your private life ? Boring !!💤💤💤
@@evelanpatton WRONG. It’s degenerate to talk about private shit incessantly. It’s destroying the West. Believe that.
@@libertycowboy2495 wish they’d keep it that way. And I’m not sharing what I’m into.
@@evelanpatton and stop saying that shit “safe”- TF does that even fkg MEAN? Words hurt people now? Way to 1984 us straight to fkg hell. Enough.
Glad to find this after 'doing it' at school.
Decent stab at the accent, but you need to work on your glottal stops.
I was worried about this one. I felt I couldn’t avoid having to do the accent after he mentioned it.
@@ClassicGhost It's fine.
Much better than Tilda Swinton.
Great channel.
The small country towns are dying in the U.S. as well. It is very difficult trying to survive with farming and there few other industries, in small towns. Great accent too, btw. For me, as an American, I have to really focus to understand a good Scottish accent (Glasgow accent?). I had to pay attention to you. No casual listening for me from across the pond.
So what the most of what I'm hearing from people about my sexuality is to crawl back into the closet, so we definitely haven't moved forward in life, we should shut up and go away, WOW !!!
However you are is perfect.
We all cling to our own realities and defend them vehemently from behind our ramparts.
I sympathise that you feel attacked for speaking out where you felt safe. We all have to suffer slings and arrows sometimes.
After all we're all still a bunch of glorified apes in modern trees.
(I am guilty of attacking hunters and fur fanciers).
You are brave, creative and 100% you, and that's great.
@@StoryVoracious thank you April for your kind words, my daughter said not to take any notice of these negative people, and that they don't know the person I am inside, some people are just ignorant, I'm happy and that's what counts , 🙏💘
Happy Easter Lynda.
Say Hi to the only female Christian deity for me. 🙋
@@StoryVoracious 😘
Slewfoot, wasn't there a story about such a creature?
The Maughm bio states that he was openly gay and in the next paragraph points out that Maughm kept his homosexuality a secret. Is that not a contradiction ?
it does appear to be
You could be openly gay on Capri where he spent much time, and in Tangiers. But Maugham was always worried because Oscar Wilde served jail time.
Not to be pedantic but how could he be both "openly gay" and also keep his "sexuality a secret most of his life"?
Also why does the narrator say it's not a full moon to the man from Glasgow when he states it is a full moon at the start of the story? Am I missing the whole point?
I believe the accent is somewhat overdone. So much so that parts are un-understandable. What's the point of narrating a story in an accent so thick no one knows what you're saying?
+@veritas6335 Lots of people do though
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Name them Spook and Banshee
parliamo glasgow, lol
W Somerset Maugham was homosexual and ‘preferred’ very young men.
The hands are corny..lol
Another case of, like the writing but totally dislike the writer, a cruel man in reality, W.S.M.
Ok so I didn't realize that you sometimes talk after the stories! I have so much to go back and listen to, haha..
For the record, I'd name my dog Jake :)
This was a wonderful story, Tony. Your Glaswegian accent was brilliant, you absolute legend. Your voice is quickly becoming my favorite
Oh yeah, lots of talk after the stories. Of course, it dates quickly I guess.