146 Épisodes

  1. Novel Approaches: ‘The Mill on the Floss’ by George Eliot

    Publié: 14/07/2025
  2. Love and Death: War Elegies by Whitman, Owen, Douglas and more

    Publié: 07/07/2025
  3. Fiction and the Fantastic: Mikhail Bulgakov and James Hogg

    Publié: 02/07/2025
  4. Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Will to Believe' by William James

    Publié: 23/06/2025
  5. Novel Approaches: 'Aurora Leigh' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Publié: 16/06/2025
  6. Love and Death: 'In Memoriam' by Tennyson

    Publié: 09/06/2025
  7. Fiction and the Fantastic: Tales by Jan Potocki and Isak Dinesen

    Publié: 03/06/2025
  8. Conversations in Philosophy: 'Schopenhauer as Educator' by Friedrich Nietzsche

    Publié: 26/05/2025
  9. Novel Approaches: ‘North and South’ by Elizabeth Gaskell

    Publié: 19/05/2025
  10. Love and Death: Self-Elegies by Plath, Larkin, Hardy and more

    Publié: 12/05/2025
  11. Fiction and the Fantastic: Stories by Franz Kafka

    Publié: 04/05/2025
  12. Conversations in Philosophy: 'My Station and Its Duties' by F.H. Bradley

    Publié: 28/04/2025
  13. Novel Approaches: 'Vanity Fair' by William Makepeace Thackeray

    Publié: 21/04/2025
  14. Love and Death: Elegies for Poets by Berryman, Lowell and Bishop

    Publié: 14/04/2025
  15. Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘Alice in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll

    Publié: 07/04/2025
  16. Conversations in Philosophy: 'Autobiography' by John Stuart Mill

    Publié: 31/03/2025
  17. Novel Approaches: ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Brontë

    Publié: 24/03/2025
  18. Love and Death: ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ by Thomas Gray

    Publié: 17/03/2025
  19. Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘Invisible Cities’ by Italo Calvino

    Publié: 10/03/2025
  20. Conversations in Philosophy: 'Circles' and other essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Publié: 03/03/2025

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