162 Episodes

  1. “It Felt Right to Reunite Them”: Emily Ingram on Writing Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley

    Published: 11/6/2021
  2. Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley

    Published: 11/4/2021
  3. “Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz”: Gail Crowther on Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton

    Published: 10/30/2021
  4. The Bell Jar (1963) by Sylvia Plath

    Published: 10/28/2021
  5. “A Plath for all Seasons”: Eilish Mulholland on Reading Sylvia Plath

    Published: 10/24/2021
  6. ‘A Birthday Present’ (1963) by Sylvia Plath

    Published: 10/23/2021
  7. The Giants and Lycaon (8 AD) by Ovid (The Metamorphoses, Book 1)

    Published: 8/16/2021
  8. “It is Sort of Taboo”: Amanda Golden on Writing in the Margins

    Published: 8/13/2021
  9. ‘The Colossus’ (1959) by Sylvia Plath

    Published: 8/11/2021
  10. “It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time”: Mark Walker on Translating the Hobbit into Latin

    Published: 8/7/2021
  11. The Life of Merlin (1150) by Geoffrey of Monmouth

    Published: 8/6/2021
  12. “The Right Sound for Shakespeare Should Be Your Sound”: Ben Crystal on Original Pronunciation

    Published: 7/31/2021
  13. Richard III (1592-93) by William Shakespeare

    Published: 7/30/2021
  14. “The Last Days of Sylvia Plath”: Carl Rollyson on Biography

    Published: 7/28/2021
  15. The Life of Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

    Published: 7/27/2021
  16. "A Man of Great Enthusiasms": Andrew Lycett on Arthur Conan Doyle

    Published: 7/9/2021
  17. The White Company (1891) by Arthur Conan Doyle

    Published: 7/7/2021
  18. "Mrs Jekyll and Cousin Hyde": Jeremy Hodges on Katharine de Mattos

    Published: 6/30/2021
  19. The Black Arrow (1888) by Robert Louis Stevenson

    Published: 6/29/2021
  20. Henry VI Part 3 (1591) by William Shakespeare

    Published: 6/27/2021

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