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LeVar Burton Reads

Podcast · 2017 · Created and hosted by LeVar Burton (Stitcher)

Too sick to read? Let LeVar Burton read to you. 🎧

Who it's for

When you are sick, reading can hurt your eyes and screens can feel like too much.

Unwell, restless, bored→Absorbed, calmer

Feelings it meets

What it is

A podcast in which LeVar Burton, longtime host of Reading Rainbow, reads one short work of fiction per episode, with music and sound design, and shares his thoughts afterwards. It ran for 207 episodes from 2017 to 2024 and included writers such as Octavia Butler, Neil Gaiman and Ray Bradbury. It won Webby Awards in 2023 and 2024 and the 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Podcast.

Where to find it

Back catalogue on major podcast apps (Apple Podcasts, Spotify and others); availability of older episodes may vary.

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Before you start

Heads up: Some stories have mature themes.

Age: Not rated (varies by episode; suggested 13+)

Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.Marcus Aurelius, The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Book 2 (tr. George Long)

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