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Brave New World Ch. 15.2: John’s Revolt at the Hospital | Banned Books Podcast
Season 9 Episode 37
John the Savage storms into the hospital and starts a one-man revolution, flinging soma into the courtyard while screaming about freedom. The Deltas …
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Brave New World Ch. 15.1: John Confronts the Soma Mob | Banned Books Podcast
Season 9 Episode 36
John leaves his mother’s deathbed only to walk straight into a crowd of Deltas lining up for their Soma ration. Surrounded by identical khaki-clad tw…
7 months ago
Brave New World Ch. 14.2: Linda’s Death & Savage Grief | Banned Books Podcast
Season 9 Episode 35
John sits at his mother’s deathbed in a hospital designed to make dying as cheerful and efficient as possible. Linda drifts in and out under a haze o…
7 months ago
Brave New World Ch. 14.1: When Comfort Replaces Humanity | Banned Books Comedy
Season 9 Episode 34
In this chapter, John visits his dying mother in a 60-story hospital that looks more like a high-end spa than a place where anyone should be facing t…
7 months, 1 week ago
Brave New World Ch. 13.2 : Purity Culture Meets Panic | Banned Books Comedy
Season 9 Episode 33
Lenina finally makes her move and John… absolutely implodes. What should’ve been a tender moment spirals into rage, Shakespeare, slapping, terror, an…
7 months, 1 week ago
Brave New World Ch. 13.1: Lenina’s Meltdown and John’s Confusion | Banned Books Podcast
Season 9 Episode 32
Lenina is quietly falling apart and John is loudly falling in love. Chapter 13.1 puts two people raised in two completely different emotional univers…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Brave New World Ch. 12.2: Bernard Spirals, Shakespeare Lands | Banned Books Podcast
Season 9 Episode 31
Bernard’s crash back to reality continues as jealousy, insecurity, and Shakespeare all collide. John and Hemholtz bond hard over forbidden ideas, Ber…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
The America That Raised Me is Gone
Season 9 Episode 30
Today’s episode is something different — an essay written and narrated by Jennifer. It’s about growing up believing America was the good guy, watchin…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Brave New World | Ch. 12.1: The Party That Broke Bernard | Banned Books Podcast
Season 9 Episode 29
In this chapter of Brave New World, everything falls apart for Bernard. The Savage refuses to attend his party, Lenina wrestles with rejection, and t…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Brave New World | Ch. 11.2 - When Pleasure Feels Wrong | Banned Books Comedy
Season 9 Episode 28
Death gets candy, love gets awkward, and everyone gets soma.
In Chapter 11, Lenina tries to connect with John after a night of “feelies,” while Berna…
8 months ago