147 Episoder

  1. Among the Ancients II: Herodotus

    Udgivet: 24.3.2024
  2. Medieval LOLs: Old English Riddles

    Udgivet: 18.3.2024
  3. Human Conditions: ‘Black Skin, White Masks’ by Frantz Fanon

    Udgivet: 10.3.2024
  4. On Satire: Ben Jonson's 'Volpone'

    Udgivet: 4.3.2024
  5. Political Poems: W.H. Auden's 'Spain 1937'

    Udgivet: 28.2.2024
  6. Among the Ancients II: Aesop

    Udgivet: 24.2.2024
  7. Medieval LOLs: The Colloquies of Aelfric Bata

    Udgivet: 18.2.2024
  8. Human Conditions: ‘The Second Sex’ by Simone de Beauvoir

    Udgivet: 10.2.2024
  9. On Satire: John Donne's Satires

    Udgivet: 4.2.2024
  10. Political Poems: Andrew Marvell's 'An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland'

    Udgivet: 31.1.2024
  11. Among the Ancients II: Hesiod

    Udgivet: 24.1.2024
  12. Medieval LOLs: Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'

    Udgivet: 17.1.2024
  13. Human Conditions: ‘Anti-Semite and Jew’ by Jean-Paul Sartre

    Udgivet: 14.1.2024
  14. On Satire: 'The Praise of Folly' by Desiderius Erasmus

    Udgivet: 4.1.2024
  15. Introducing: Among the Ancients II

    Udgivet: 3.1.2024
  16. Introducing: On Satire

    Udgivet: 1.1.2024
  17. Introducing: Human Conditions

    Udgivet: 1.1.2024
  18. The Long and Short: Elizabeth Bowen

    Udgivet: 24.12.2023
  19. Among the Ancients: Seneca

    Udgivet: 14.12.2023
  20. Medieval Beginnings: The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

    Udgivet: 4.12.2023

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