144 Episodo

  1. Fiction and the Fantastic: Mikhail Bulgakov and James Hogg

    Publicado: 2/7/2025
  2. Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Will to Believe' by William James

    Publicado: 23/6/2025
  3. Novel Approaches: 'Aurora Leigh' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Publicado: 16/6/2025
  4. Love and Death: 'In Memoriam' by Tennyson

    Publicado: 9/6/2025
  5. Fiction and the Fantastic: Tales by Jan Potocki and Isak Dinesen

    Publicado: 3/6/2025
  6. Conversations in Philosophy: 'Schopenhauer as Educator' by Friedrich Nietzsche

    Publicado: 26/5/2025
  7. Novel Approaches: ‘North and South’ by Elizabeth Gaskell

    Publicado: 19/5/2025
  8. Love and Death: Self-Elegies by Plath, Larkin, Hardy and more

    Publicado: 12/5/2025
  9. Fiction and the Fantastic: Stories by Franz Kafka

    Publicado: 4/5/2025
  10. Conversations in Philosophy: 'My Station and Its Duties' by F.H. Bradley

    Publicado: 28/4/2025
  11. Novel Approaches: 'Vanity Fair' by William Makepeace Thackeray

    Publicado: 21/4/2025
  12. Love and Death: Elegies for Poets by Berryman, Lowell and Bishop

    Publicado: 14/4/2025
  13. Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘Alice in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll

    Publicado: 7/4/2025
  14. Conversations in Philosophy: 'Autobiography' by John Stuart Mill

    Publicado: 31/3/2025
  15. Novel Approaches: ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Brontë

    Publicado: 24/3/2025
  16. Love and Death: ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ by Thomas Gray

    Publicado: 17/3/2025
  17. Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘Invisible Cities’ by Italo Calvino

    Publicado: 10/3/2025
  18. Conversations in Philosophy: 'Circles' and other essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Publicado: 3/3/2025
  19. Novel Approaches: 'Crotchet Castle' by Thomas Love Peacock

    Publicado: 24/2/2025
  20. Love and Death: Elegies for children by Ben Jonson, Anne Bradstreet, Geoffrey Hill and Elizabeth Bishop

    Publicado: 17/2/2025

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