Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market
Nobody expects the Victorian wombats! Given the title, listeners won’t be hugely surprised to hear there are goblins in today’s episode, but wombats!?!?Yes, the sleeper hits of this episode are our ro...
2 Jun 1h 16min
Wings and Things: John Keats' Ode to a Nightingale
In April 1819, the poet John Keats, aged 23, told his brother George that he was done with poetry. A few days later, he smashed out the first poem in what is arguably the greatest streak in literary h...
26 Mai 1h 13min
Paths of Glory: Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
In 1751, a little-known Cambridge academic called Thomas Gray published “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” and became a household name. His poem was a funeral elegy about the sun going down over ...
19 Mai 1h 17min
Literary Pilgrimage in New York: From the Mixes Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
A special collaboration between Sophie and the celebrated writer and podcaster Gretchen Rubin, of Happier with Gretchen Rubin, recorded live from New York City. Join Sophie and Gretchen on a literary ...
15 Mai 33min
Canterbury Tales (General Prologue) by Geoffrey Chaucer
Talent shows like The X Factor, Got Talent and their many spin offs began in the 1380s, not the 1980s! They were invented by Geoffrey Chaucer, who wrote his masterpiece The Canterbury Tales at the end...
12 Mai 1h 22min
The Other Bennet Sister with author Janice Hadlow
2026 is the year of the Horse. It is also the Year of Classic Literature, thanks to the current crop of high-profile screen adaptations. And, when it comes to the classics, SLOB is all about the small...
5 Mai 53min
Back to School 4: Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
To round out our series on high school novels we're jumping across the pond (aka the Atlantic Ocean) and skipping several decades to find ourselves in early 1990s Massachusetts. Welcome to the world o...
28 Apr 1h 12min
Back to School 3: A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
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21 Apr 1h 24min
