Commonwealth Avenue
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Search complete. 29 mentions across 16 episodes found for "Commonwealth Avenue".
Sep 26, 2026
Tragedy of the Korosko-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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29:17Lars RolanderNARRATOR
I never hope to keep up with it, said her aunt.
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29:20Lars RolanderNARRATOR
When I am safe back in Commonwealth Avenue and there is no dragoman to hustle me around, I'll have time to read about it all, and then I expect I shall begin to enthuse and want to come right back again.
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29:33Lars RolanderNARRATOR
But it's just too good of you, Mr. Stevens, to try and keep us informed.
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29:38Lars RolanderNARRATOR
I thought that you might wish precise information, and so I prepared a small digest of the matter, said Stevens, handing a slip of paper to Miss Sadie.
1 HR 52 MINS LATER
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141:41Lars RolanderNARRATOR
Then she pursed up her lips and shook her stern brown face in disapproval.
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141:46Lars RolanderNARRATOR
But she pushed the little pistol into its hiding-place all the same, and she rode with her thoughts in a whirl.
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141:54Lars RolanderNARRATOR
Could this indeed be she, Eliza Adams of Boston, whose narrow, happy life had oscillated between the comfortable house in Commonwealth Avenue and the Tremont Presbyterian Church? Here she was hunched upon a camel, with her hand upon the butt of a pistol, and her mind weighing the justifications of murder.
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142:18Lars RolanderNARRATOR
Oh, life, sly, sleek, treacherous life, how are we ever to trust you? Show us your worst, and we can face it; but it is when you are sweetest and smoothest that we have most to fear from you.
BPR Full Show 9/25/26: Uncrustadouble
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18:56Margery EaganHOST
Oh, my God.
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18:57Margery EaganHOST
And, and then, um, the, the food, somebody else is, is saying Butcher Boys, Commonwealth Avenue.
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19:02Liz RomanGUEST
Yes.
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19:02Margery EaganHOST
Pop Pops Greek burgers.
Miss Billy-Eleanor H. Porter
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11:51Ashley JaneNARRATOR
Thus, in all the Beacon Street house, there had not for years been the touch of a woman's hand.
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11:56Ashley JaneNARRATOR
Even Kate, the married sister, had long since given up trying to instruct Dong Ling or to chide Pete, though she still walked across the garden from her Commonwealth Avenue home and tripped up the stairs to call in turn upon her brothers, Bertram, William, and Cyril.
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12:13Ashley JaneNARRATOR
End of chapter two.
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12:15Ashley JaneNARRATOR
Recording by Ashley Jane.
1 HR 7 MINS LATER
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79:35speaker_4NARRATOR
"Very well, be as it may.
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79:38speaker_4NARRATOR
Anyhow, you're coming, and we shall want you all settled by dinner time," he finished as he picked up his hat to go.
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79:47speaker_4NARRATOR
With Kate, Billy spent the long day very contentedly in Kate's beautiful Commonwealth Avenue home.
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79:55speaker_4NARRATOR
The two boys, Paul, 12 years old, and Egbert, 8, were a little shy.
Tragedy of the Korosko-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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26:41Lars RolanderNARRATOR
I haven't got Abu Simbel and the wall pictures straight in my mind yet, though I saw them yesterday." "I never hope to keep up with it," said her aunt.
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26:52Lars RolanderNARRATOR
"When I'm safe back in Commonwealth Avenue and there's no dragoman to hustle me around, I'll have time to read about it all, and then I expect I shall begin to enthuse and want to come right back again.
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27:05Lars RolanderNARRATOR
But it's just too good of you, Mr. Stevens, to try and keep us informed." "I thought that you might wish precise information, and so I prepared a small digest of the matter," said Stevens, handing a slip of paper to Miss Sadie.
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27:21Lars RolanderNARRATOR
She looked at it in the light of the deck lamp, and broke into her low, hearty laugh.
1 HR 45 MINS LATER
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132:53Lars RolanderNARRATOR
Then she pursed up her lips and shook her stern brown face in disapproval.
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132:59Lars RolanderNARRATOR
But she pushed the little pistol into its hiding place all the same, and she rode with her thoughts in a whirl.
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133:06Lars RolanderNARRATOR
Could this indeed be she, Eliza Adams of Boston, whose narrow happy life had oscillated between the comfortable house in Commonwealth Avenue and the Tremont Presbyterian Church? Here she was hunched upon a camel, with her hand upon the butt of a pistol, and her mind weighing the justifications of murder.
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133:30Lars RolanderNARRATOR
Oh, life, sly, sleek, treacherous life, how are we ever to trust you? Show us your worst and we can face it, but it is when you are sweetest and smoothest that we have most to fear from you.
2-10. Spooky, Beautiful, Over the Top: Inside Halloween with Parterre
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3:07Liz CoxHOST
Oh yeah, definitely.
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3:08Liz CoxHOST
I was actually just in like the downtown Boston area and I don't make that track very often, but I was walking down like Commonwealth Ave and Beacon Hill and I was thinking the whole time like, oh wow, like these are a lot of our clients in these areas and it is such a cool walkable place.
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3:28Corey WakulowiczGUEST
It's amazing.
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3:29Corey WakulowiczGUEST
There's so many people and there's people from everywhere.
Bill Belichick's moobs inspire some music from the heart
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3:53Rich ShertenliebHOST
Did they have a
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3:54Ken LairdHOST
brownstone for a while, though, down on Com Ave?
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3:56Rich ShertenliebHOST
They did.
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3:56Rich ShertenliebHOST
And every once in a while, you'd see Giselle walking around.
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3:58Rich ShertenliebHOST
You would see her, but you would never see him.
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4:01Rich ShertenliebHOST
And he was...
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4:02Rich ShertenliebHOST
Yeah, because remember, there was that one time he got in a car accident right there on Com Ave, and they had to think...
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4:07Rich ShertenliebHOST
I remember Jaws of Life was the term that they used to take him out.
Government Center with Noah Harper
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51:46Noah HarperGUEST
It could be cool to have seasonal ex- exhibitions or maybe some more interactive public art too.
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51:53Lee StabertHOST
Yeah, I mean, you think about, we only drove by, but there are those, those elephants on Commonwealth Ave.
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51:57Lee StabertHOST
I don't know if you've heard about those.
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51:59Noah HarperGUEST
Mm-hmm.
The Old Girls' Network: Eleanor Raymond and the Modern House
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30:58Doris ColeGUEST
She was a very wealthy woman.
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31:02Doris ColeGUEST
She had an estate out in Dover and a house on Commonwealth Avenue.
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31:11Doris ColeGUEST
Peabody was experimental, both in how she farmed and how she treated her workers and how she built.
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31:25Marianne HuntingGUEST
Eleanor started out working on the stables.
Desert Drama Being the Tragedy Of The Korosko-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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23:44David WalesNARRATOR
I haven't got Abu Simbel and the wall-pictures straight in my mind yet, though I saw them yesterday.' I never hope to keep up with it," said her aunt.
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23:55David WalesNARRATOR
When I am safe back in Commonwealth Avenue, and there's no dragoman to hustle me around, I'll have time to read about it all, and then, I expect, I shall begin to enthuse and want to come right back again.
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24:09David WalesNARRATOR
But it's just too good of you, Mr. Stevens, to try and keep us informed." I thought that you might wish precise information, and so I prepared a small digest of the matter, said Stephens, handing a slip of paper to Miss Sadie.
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24:25David WalesNARRATOR
She looked at it in the light of the deck-lamp, and broke into her low, hearty laugh.
1 HR 39 MINS LATER
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123:49David WalesNARRATOR
Then she pursed her lips and shook her stern brown face in disapproval.
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123:55David WalesNARRATOR
but she pushed the little pistol into its hiding-place all the same, and she rode with her thoughts in a whirl.
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124:02David WalesNARRATOR
Could this indeed be she, Eliza Adams, of Boston, whose narrow, happy life had oscillated between the comfortable house in Commonwealth Avenue and the Tremont Presbyterian Church? Here she was, hunched upon a camel, with her hand upon the butt of a pistol, and her mind weighing the justifications of murder oh life sly sleek treacherous life how are we ever to trust you show us your worst and we can face it but it is when you're sweetest and smoothest that we have most to fear from you at the worst miss sadie It will only be a question of ransom," said Stevens, arguing against his own convictions.
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124:51David WalesNARRATOR
Besides, we are still close to Egypt, far away from the Dervish country.
Bonus Episode: The Screening Room – The Player
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32:58Zeth LundyHOST
I was in college in Boston.
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33:00Zeth LundyHOST
I walked, uh, up Comm Ave from my dorm to a record store.
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33:06Zeth LundyHOST
It wasn't In Your Ear because In Your Ear did not have new, new CDs.
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33:10Zeth LundyHOST
They only did, they had used stuff, used records, used CDs, used tapes.
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33:15Zeth LundyHOST
But almost directly across Comm Ave from In Your Ear, was there not, like, a Strawberries? Or there was some sort of, like, major big box record store there.
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33:24Zeth LundyHOST
I think it was a Strawberries.
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33:26Zeth LundyHOST
That's where I bought Midnight Vultures.
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