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Medieval Beginnings: Bede's Life of Cuthbert
Season 4 Episode 3
In the third episode of Medieval Beginnings, Mary and Irina explore the much-chronicled life of St Cuthbert, as told by the most famous writer of the…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Long and Short: Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself'
Season 6 Episode 2
In the second episode of The Long and Short, Mark and Seamus turn to Walt Whitman's ‘Song of Myself’, from Leaves of Grass (1855), for Mark ‘one of t…
3 years, 3 months ago
Among the Ancients: The 'Odyssey'
Season 5 Episode 2
In episode two of Among the Ancients, Tom and Emily turn to Homer’s Odyssey. They discuss the twisting, turning nature of both the narrative and its …
3 years, 3 months ago
Medieval Beginnings: Letters and Laments
Season 4 Episode 2
In episode two of Medieval Beginnings, Mary and Irina turn the pages of the Exeter Book, a remarkable 10th century manuscript containing numerous poe…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Long and Short: Tennyson's 'Maud'
Season 6 Episode 1
Mark Ford and Seamus Perry start their series, The Long and Short, with Tennyson’s ‘Maud’, a weird and disturbing poem about obsession that Tennyson …
3 years, 4 months ago
Among the Ancients: The 'Iliad'
Season 5 Episode 1
In their first episode of Among the Ancients, Emily and Tom begin with a beginning, Homer's Iliad: its depictions of anger and grief, of capricious g…
3 years, 4 months ago
Medieval Beginnings: Beowulf
Season 4 Episode 1
Mary Wellesley and Irina Dumitrescu start their Medieval Beginnings series with Beowulf, a tale of monsters and heroes that is also a complex collect…
3 years, 4 months ago
Modern-ish Poets Live! T. S. Eliot
Season 3 Episode 10
On the centenary of the publication of Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ in book form, Mark and Seamus finish the second series of Modern-ish Poets by conside…
3 years, 5 months ago
Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery
Season 3 Episode 9
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the lives and works of Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery, close friends and leading lights of the New York School, who…
3 years, 5 months ago
Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Charlotte Mew
Season 3 Episode 8
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at the life and work of Charlotte Mew, who brought the Victorian art of dramatic monologue into the 20th century, and…
3 years, 5 months ago