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Episodes


Among the Ancients II: Plautus and Terence

Medieval LOLs: Solomon and Marcolf

Human Conditions: 'The Golden Notebook' by Doris Lessing

On Satire: 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman' by Laurence Sterne

Political Poems: 'Strange Meeting' by Wilfred Owen

Among the Ancients II: Lucian

Medieval LOLs: The Second Shepherds' Pageant

Human Conditions: ‘The Intimate Enemy’ by Ashis Nandy

Forecasting D-Day: The story behind the most important weather forecast in history

On Satire: 'The Dunciad' by Alexander Pope

Political Poems: 'The Masque of Anarchy' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Among the Ancients II: Plato's 'Symposium'

Medieval LOLs: Dame Syrith

Human Conditions: ‘A House for Mr Biswas' by V.S. Naipaul

On Satire: John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera'

Political Poems: 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Terry Eagleton: Where does culture come from?

Among the Ancients II: Pindar and Bacchylides

A Series of Headaches: Shakespeare's First Folio meets the London Review of Books
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