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Episodes


Medieval LOLs: 'Tales of Count Lucanor' by Juan Manuel

Portrait of a Genius: The Extraordinary Story of Francis Williams

Human Conditions: ‘Black Music’ by Amiri Baraka

On Satire: Evelyn Waugh's 'A Handful of Dust'

Political Poems: 'The Prelude' (books 9 and 10) by William Wordsworth

Among the Ancients II: Juvenal

Medieval LOLs: Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron’, Part Two

Human Conditions: ‘Discourse on Colonialism’ by Aimé Césaire

On Satire: 'The Importance of Being Earnest' by Oscar Wilde

Political Poems: 'Autumn Journal' by Louis MacNeice

Among the Ancients II: Tacitus

Medieval LOLs: Boccaccio's 'Decameron': Part One

Human Conditions: ‘The Souls of Black Folk’ by W.E.B. Du Bois

On Satire: Byron's 'Don Juan' (a plot summary)

Political Poems: 'Goblin Market' by Christina Rossetti, feat. Shirley Henderson and Felicity Jones

Among the Ancients II: Lucan

Medieval LOLs: Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle

Human Conditions: ‘Hope against Hope’ by Nadezhda Mandelstam

'Interest' and reading in Jane Austen
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