114 Episodes

  1. S13E2: “To Pompeius” Ode 2.7 by Horace, trans. by John Davidson

    Published: 21/08/2023
  2. S13E1: "David's Lament for Saul and Jonathan", 2 Samuel 1, KJV

    Published: 14/08/2023
  3. S12E6: Idea 61, "Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part" by Michael Drayton

    Published: 15/05/2023
  4. S12E5: Delia 45, “Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night” by Samuel Daniel

    Published: 8/05/2023
  5. S12E4: Sonnet 138, "When my love swears that she is made of truth"

    Published: 1/05/2023
  6. S12E3: Sonnet 106, “When in the chronicle of wasted time” by William Shakespeare

    Published: 24/04/2023
  7. S12E2: Sonnet 18, "Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?" by William Shakespeare

    Published: 17/04/2023
  8. S12E1: Sonnet 1, "From fairest creatures we desire increase" by William Shakespeare

    Published: 10/04/2023
  9. S11E6: "On Shakespeare" by John Milton

    Published: 27/02/2023
  10. S11E5: “Edward Lear” by W.H. Auden

    Published: 20/02/2023
  11. S11E4: “To Walter de la Mare” by T. S. Elliot

    Published: 13/02/2023
  12. S11E3: “The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel” by John Betjeman

    Published: 6/02/2023
  13. S11E2: “On First Looking into Chapman's Homer” by John Keats

    Published: 30/01/2023
  14. S11E1: “The Lost Leader” by Robert Browning

    Published: 23/01/2023
  15. S10E6: "The British Journalist" by Humbert Wolfe

    Published: 26/12/2022
  16. S10E5: "The Chimney Sweeper" by William Blake

    Published: 19/12/2022
  17. S10E4: "Surgeons must be very careful" by Emily Dickinson

    Published: 12/12/2022
  18. S10E3: "The Song of the Shirt" by Thomas Hood

    Published: 5/12/2022
  19. S10E2: "Men Who March Away" by Thomas Hardy

    Published: 28/11/2022
  20. S10E1: "Fanfare for the Makers" by Louis MacNeice

    Published: 21/11/2022

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