TS Eliot 1: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T.S. Eliot was a mid-west American living in London in the first decades of the 20th century, who wrote Dickens-inflected poems about fog, wind, damp evenings and the general gloom of English life (if...
16 Juni 1h 11min
Bleak House by Charles Dickens - SLoB Book Club returns! (feat. Bret Walker SC)
SLoB Book Club is back as Sophie and Jonty dive into Charles Dickens’ Bleak House with the help of special guest Bret Walker, SC – one of Australia’s most renowned lawyers.Dickens’ sprawling vision of...
9 Juni 1h 16min
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 Juni 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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Maj 53min
