Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.
Middlemarch
April 19, 2018
51:49
Anna Akhmatova
Jan. 18, 2018
48:43
Hamlet
Dec. 28, 2017
52:33
Beethoven
Dec. 21, 2017
50:13
Moby Dick
Dec. 7, 2017
51:00
Germaine de Stael
Nov. 16, 2017
49:57
Picasso's Guernica
Nov. 2, 2017
54:17
Aphra Behn
Oct. 12, 2017
49:51
Wuthering Heights
Sept. 28, 2017
49:31
al-Biruni
Aug. 31, 2017
41:52
Eugene Onegin
June 22, 2017
49:27
Christine de Pizan
June 8, 2017
50:15
Emily Dickinson
May 11, 2017
48:30
Hokusai
March 30, 2017
48:07
North and South
March 9, 2017
48:01
Seneca the Younger
Feb. 23, 2017
51:25
John Clare
Feb. 9, 2017
48:15
Four Quartets
Dec. 22, 2016
48:31
The Fighting Temeraire
Nov. 10, 2016
45:58
Epic of Gilgamesh
Nov. 3, 2016
46:52
The 12th Century Renaissance
Oct. 20, 2016
49:23
Animal Farm
Sept. 29, 2016
51:17
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
June 23, 2016
49:59
The Muses
May 19, 2016
45:29
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
May 5, 2016
46:43
Aurora Leigh
March 24, 2016
Rumi's Poetry
Feb. 11, 2016
46:44
Tristan and Iseult
Dec. 31, 2015
45:12
Emma
Nov. 19, 2015
47:27
Holbein at the Tudor Court
Oct. 15, 2015
46:30
Frida Kahlo
July 9, 2015
45:37
Jane Eyre
June 18, 2015
Tagore
May 7, 2015
46:36
Fanny Burney
April 23, 2015
44:25
Sappho
April 9, 2015
46:02
Beowulf
March 5, 2015
46:29
Bruegel's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
Jan. 15, 2015
45:35
Kafka's The Trial
Nov. 27, 2014
43:18
Aesop
Nov. 20, 2014
45:22
Rudyard Kipling
Oct. 16, 2014
45:44
Mrs Dalloway
July 3, 2014
45:30
The Bluestockings
June 5, 2014
46:32
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
May 22, 2014
47:07
The Tale of Sinuhe
May 1, 2014
47:09
Tristram Shandy
April 24, 2014
47:25
The Tempest
Nov. 14, 2013
41:59
Pascal
Sept. 19, 2013
41:57
The Invention of Radio
July 4, 2013
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
June 27, 2013
42:07
Queen Zenobia
May 30, 2013
42:00
Lévi-Strauss
May 23, 2013
42:03
Icelandic Sagas
May 9, 2013
42:04
Montaigne
April 25, 2013
The Amazons
April 11, 2013
42:12
Chekhov
March 14, 2013
Decline and Fall
Feb. 21, 2013
41:58
Le Morte d'Arthur
Jan. 10, 2013
Shahnameh of Ferdowsi
Dec. 13, 2012
42:06
The Anarchy
Nov. 1, 2012
Caxton and the Printing Press
Oct. 18, 2012
Gerald of Wales
Oct. 4, 2012
The Druids
Sept. 20, 2012
Annie Besant
June 21, 2012
James Joyce's Ulysses
June 14, 2012
42:05
Voltaire's Candide
May 3, 2012
Moses Mendelssohn
March 22, 2012
42:18
Benjamin Franklin
March 1, 2012
The Kama Sutra
Feb. 2, 2012
The Safavid Dynasty
Jan. 12, 2012
42:08
Robinson Crusoe
Dec. 22, 2011
Christina Rossetti
Dec. 1, 2011
Tennyson's In Memoriam
June 29, 2011
The Anatomy of Melancholy
May 12, 2011
42:14
The Medieval University
March 17, 2011
41:42
Aristotle's Poetics
Jan. 27, 2011
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Jan. 6, 2011
41:55
History of Metaphor
Nov. 25, 2010
The Unicorn
Oct. 28, 2010
Sturm und Drang
Oct. 14, 2010
42:13
Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists
May 27, 2010
41:53
Roman Satire
April 22, 2010
Munch and The Scream
March 18, 2010
41:32
Silas Marner
Jan. 28, 2010
42:15
The Samurai
Dec. 24, 2009
Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Nov. 26, 2009
42:19
Elizabethan Revenge
June 18, 2009
42:17
The Whale - A History
May 21, 2009
42:24
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
April 9, 2009
The School of Athens
March 26, 2009
The Waste Land and Modernity
Feb. 26, 2009
The Brothers Grimm
Feb. 5, 2009
42:09
Swift's A Modest Proposal
Jan. 29, 2009
42:10
The Baroque Movement
Oct. 23, 2008
Dante's Inferno
July 3, 2008
The Music of the Spheres
June 19, 2008
The Metaphysical Poets
The Riddle of the Sands
June 12, 2008
42:02
The Library at Nineveh
May 15, 2008
42:11
Yeats and Irish Politics
April 17, 2008
The Greek Myths
March 13, 2008
Lear
Feb. 28, 2008
Rudolph II
Jan. 31, 2008
42:16
The Fisher King
Jan. 17, 2008
42:22
Camus
Jan. 3, 2008
The Prelude
Nov. 22, 2007
Taste
Oct. 25, 2007
The Arabian Nights
Oct. 18, 2007
Madame Bovary
July 12, 2007
28:21
Siegfried Sassoon
June 7, 2007
Victorian Pessimism
May 10, 2007
28:25
Greek and Roman Love Poetry
April 26, 2007
28:10
Epistolary Literature
March 15, 2007
Heart of Darkness
Feb. 15, 2007
42:20
Jorge Luis Borges
Jan. 4, 2007
Hell
Dec. 21, 2006
27:56
Pope
Nov. 9, 2006
The Encyclopédie
Oct. 26, 2006
Comedy in Ancient Greek Theatre
July 13, 2006
Pastoral Literature
July 6, 2006
Uncle Tom's Cabin
June 8, 2006
Mathematics and Music
May 25, 2006
Fairies
May 11, 2006
28:07
Goethe
April 6, 2006
41:56
The Carolingian Renaissance
March 30, 2006
Don Quixote
March 16, 2006
Friendship
March 2, 2006
41:46
Chaucer
Feb. 9, 2006
Seventeenth Century Print Culture
Jan. 26, 2006
27:59
The Oresteia
Dec. 29, 2005
28:14
Johnson
Oct. 27, 2005
28:22
Marlowe
July 7, 2005
Merlin
June 30, 2005
28:20
The Scriblerus Club
June 9, 2005
Abelard and Heloise
May 5, 2005
41:33
The Aeneid
April 21, 2005
41:50
John Ruskin
March 31, 2005
Angels
March 24, 2005
28:13
Modernist Utopias
March 11, 2005
Faust
Dec. 23, 2004
Sartre
Oct. 7, 2004
Politeness
Sept. 30, 2004
28:23
The Odyssey
Sept. 9, 2004
The Later Romantics
April 15, 2004
The Norse Gods
March 11, 2004
The Sublime
Feb. 12, 2004
Sensation
Nov. 6, 2003
28:15
Robin Hood
Oct. 30, 2003
28:24
Bohemianism
Oct. 9, 2003
Youth
April 17, 2003
41:54
Proust
April 10, 2003
41:10
Originality
March 20, 2003
41:04
The Epic
Feb. 6, 2003
28:12
Victorian Realism
Nov. 14, 2002
28:06
Cultural Imperialism
June 27, 2002
27:53
Wagner
June 20, 2002
The Grand Tour
May 30, 2002
Tolstoy
April 25, 2002
The Artist
March 28, 2002
Marriage
March 21, 2002
Milton
March 7, 2002
Yeats and Mysticism
Jan. 31, 2002
28:16
Sensibility
Jan. 3, 2002
Food
Dec. 27, 2001
Oscar Wilde
Dec. 6, 2001
28:09
Surrealism
Nov. 15, 2001
Dickens
July 12, 2001
28:19
Existentialism
June 28, 2001
The Sonnet
June 21, 2001
Literary Modernism
April 26, 2001
Shakespeare's Life
March 15, 2001
Gothic
Jan. 4, 2001
Psychoanalysis and Literature
Nov. 9, 2000
The Romantics
Oct. 12, 2000
London
Sept. 28, 2000
41:34
Biography
June 22, 2000
Inspiration and Genius
June 15, 2000
28:18
The Renaissance
June 8, 2000
42:23
The American Ideal
June 1, 2000
Shakespeare's Work
May 11, 2000
Death
May 4, 2000
Englishness
April 20, 2000
Materialism and the Consumer
March 23, 2000
Metamorphosis
March 2, 2000
Reading
Feb. 17, 2000
Masculinity in Literature
Jan. 20, 2000
28:11
Tragedy
Dec. 2, 1999
The Novel
Nov. 11, 1999
Maths and Storytelling
Sept. 30, 1999
Truth, Lies and Fiction
July 15, 1999
27:55
Capitalism
June 24, 1999
The Monarchy
June 10, 1999
Memory and Culture
May 27, 1999
Multiculturalism
May 13, 1999
28:08
Writing and Political Oppression
April 8, 1999
Architecture in the 20th Century
March 25, 1999
Shakespeare and Literary Criticism
March 4, 1999
27:26
The Avant Garde's Decline and Fall in the 20th Century
Feb. 25, 1999
Language and the Mind
Feb. 11, 1999
27:49
Modern Culture
Jan. 28, 1999
Feminism
Jan. 7, 1999
The American Century
Dec. 17, 1998
27:54
Cultural Rights in the 20th Century
Dec. 10, 1998
Work in the 20th Century
Nov. 26, 1998
The City in the 20th Century
Nov. 12, 1998
28:00
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