145 Episodo

  1. Human Conditions: ‘Black Music’ by Amiri Baraka

    Publicado: 10/11/2024
  2. On Satire: 'A Handful of Dust' by Evelyn Waugh

    Publicado: 4/11/2024
  3. Political Poems: 'The Prelude' (books 9 and 10) by William Wordsworth

    Publicado: 28/10/2024
  4. Among the Ancients II: Juvenal

    Publicado: 24/10/2024
  5. Medieval LOLs: Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron’, Part Two

    Publicado: 18/10/2024
  6. Human Conditions: ‘Discourse on Colonialism’ by Aimé Césaire

    Publicado: 10/10/2024
  7. On Satire: 'The Importance of Being Earnest' by Oscar Wilde

    Publicado: 4/10/2024
  8. Political Poems: 'Autumn Journal' by Louis MacNeice

    Publicado: 28/9/2024
  9. Among the Ancients II: Tacitus

    Publicado: 24/9/2024
  10. Medieval LOLs: Boccaccio's 'Decameron', Part One

    Publicado: 18/9/2024
  11. Human Conditions: ‘The Souls of Black Folk’ by W.E.B. Du Bois

    Publicado: 10/9/2024
  12. On Satire: Byron's 'Don Juan'

    Publicado: 4/9/2024
  13. Political Poems: 'Goblin Market' by Christina Rossetti, feat. Shirley Henderson and Felicity Jones

    Publicado: 28/8/2024
  14. Among the Ancients II: Lucan

    Publicado: 24/8/2024
  15. Medieval LOLs: 'Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle'

    Publicado: 18/8/2024
  16. Human Conditions: ‘Hope against Hope’ by Nadezhda Mandelstam

    Publicado: 10/8/2024
  17. On Satire: Jane Austen's 'Emma'

    Publicado: 4/8/2024
  18. Political Poems: 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd' by Walt Whitman

    Publicado: 28/7/2024
  19. Among the Ancients II: Plautus and Terence

    Publicado: 24/7/2024
  20. Medieval LOLs: Solomon and Marcolf

    Publicado: 18/7/2024

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