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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam — Part 5 of 15 (Quatrains 269–335)
Season 6 Episode 5
The only complete English translation of all 1,000 rubaiyat attributed to Omar Khayyam — and the first ever recorded in full.
No complete English tran…
4 days, 2 hours ago
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam — Part 4 of 15 (Quatrains 202–268)
Season 6 Episode 4
The only complete English translation of all 1,000 rubaiyat attributed to Omar Khayyam — and the first ever recorded in full.
No complete English tran…
4 days, 3 hours ago
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam — Part 3 of 15 (Quatrains 135–201)
Season 6 Episode 3
The only complete English translation of all 1,000 rubaiyat attributed to Omar Khayyam — and the first ever recorded in full.
No complete English tran…
4 days, 4 hours ago
Vladimir Mayakovsky — Fifteen Poems (1918–1920)
Season 5 Episode 15
An ode raised to the revolution — solemn "O" and all — and an order shouted to the army of arts: pianos into the street, drums out of the windows, th…
4 days, 5 hours ago
Vladimir Mayakovsky — Fifteen Poems (1916–1918)
Season 5 Episode 14
An ostrich in feathers of stanzas, metres and rhymes, trying to hide his head from snowy Russia; the Emperor Peter the Great climbing down from his g…
4 days, 5 hours ago
Vladimir Mayakovsky — Fifteen Poems (1915–1916)
Season 5 Episode 13
The bribe-takers are told to take everything at once, so that no one need ever write about it again; a monstrous funeral carries dead laughter throug…
4 days, 5 hours ago
Byliny — Dobrynya and Nastasya
Season 4 Episode 17
Fresh from freeing the prince's niece, Dobrynya rides the hoof-track across the open field and strikes a rider in a woman's dress three times with al…
4 days, 7 hours ago
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam — Part 2 of 15 (Quatrains 68–134)
Season 6 Episode 2
The only complete English translation of all 1,000 rubaiyat attributed to Omar Khayyam — and the first ever recorded in full.
No complete English tran…
4 days, 8 hours ago
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam — Part 1 of 15 (Quatrains 1–67)
Season 6 Episode 1
The only complete English translation of all 1,000 rubaiyat attributed to Omar Khayyam — and the first ever recorded in full.
No complete English tran…
4 days, 8 hours ago
Byliny — Dobrynya Nikitich and Vasily Kazimirovich · Dyuk Stepanovich
Season 4 Episode 16
A hero boasts at the prince's feast that he will carry twelve years of tribute to a foreign tsar — and comes home with the tribute flowing the other …
4 days, 8 hours ago