Episodes

  • 291: J.R.R. Tolkien's "Letters from Father Christmas"

    291: J.R.R. Tolkien's "Letters from Father Christmas"
    Dec 23 2025
    Apparently Tolkien is a fabulous illustrator. Who knew? I've seriously looked up prints, and they are weirdly hard to find . . . but enchanting. Oh, this episode is about Christmas. Merry Christmas!
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    49 mins
  • 290: Civil Disobedience by David Henry Thoreau

    290: Civil Disobedience by David Henry Thoreau
    Dec 16 2025
    In this episode, we learn how to---as Graeme would say---RIP THE SYSTEM. Well, at least until an aunt bails us out.
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • 289: John Bunyan and Babe le bœuf bleu

    289: John Bunyan and Babe le bœuf bleu
    Dec 9 2025
    In this episode, we talk about allegory and cattle. Oh, and Pilgrim's Progress
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • 288: Macbeth Inverted

    288: Macbeth Inverted
    Dec 2 2025
    In this episode, Graeme talks us through a framework in which we can experience Macbeth (you know, that Scottish play). Turns out that when you kill a Scottish king, everything goes topsy turvy.
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • 287: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving

    287: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving
    Nov 4 2025
    Ever heard of the headless horseman? Did you know he was a Hessian Soldier? Do you know where the Jack-o-lantern comes from? FIND OUT IN THIS SPOOOOOOOKY EPISODE.
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    57 mins
  • 286: Prince Darling

    286: Prince Darling
    Oct 7 2025
    Faeries. Stay away from them or you'll have your finger pricked all to heck.
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    43 mins
  • 285: The Democratic Man: Plato's Republic Revisited

    285: The Democratic Man: Plato's Republic Revisited
    Sep 30 2025
    In this episode, Graeme discusses the degradation of man as a reflection of the degradation of the state suggested in Plato's Republic, Book VIII. Apparently true freedom is bloodshed.
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • 284: Sun Tzu's "The Art of War"

    284: Sun Tzu's "The Art of War"
    Sep 9 2025
    In this (far too long) episode, we play a quiz show with a cake as a prize. Because really, that's what every war is about: cake.
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    1 hr and 18 mins