Episodes

  • Episode 20: Sleepy Hollow: Blind superstition versus greed.

    Episode 20: Sleepy Hollow: Blind superstition versus greed.
    Feb 12 2026
    The Headless Horseman is the ghost of a Hessian soldier who lost his head to a cannonball during the American Revolution. He haunts Sleepy Hollow, riding nightly to find his missing head and chasing the schoolmaster Ichabod Crane out of town.
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    14 mins
  • Episode 19: Cinderella: ​The Triumph of Kindness over Envy and Contempt

    Episode 19: Cinderella: ​The Triumph of Kindness over Envy and Contempt
    Feb 11 2026
    A kind girl mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters. With the help of a Fairy Godmother who transforms a pumpkin into a carriage, she attends a royal ball and captures the Prince's heart.
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    12 mins
  • Episode 18: The Myth of "Orpheus and Eurydice": The Descent into the Abyss for the One You Love.

    Episode 18: The Myth of "Orpheus and Eurydice": The Descent into the Abyss for the One You Love.
    Feb 8 2026
    Orpheus, a gifted musician, descends to the Underworld to retrieve his wife, Eurydice, after she dies from a snake bite. Hades agrees to let her go on one condition: Orpheus must not look back at her until they reach the surface.
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    13 mins
  • Episode 17: The Raven: An Eternal Echo of Madness and Mourning.

    Episode 17: The Raven: An Eternal Echo of Madness and Mourning.
    Feb 7 2026
    "The Raven" is a gothic narrative poem about a grieving man's descent into madness. While mourning his lost love, Lenore, he is visited by a mysterious raven that answers every question with the haunting refrain, "Nevermore."
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    15 mins
  • Episode 16: The Crucible: An allegory of collective hysteria and fanaticism.

    Episode 16: The Crucible: An allegory of collective hysteria and fanaticism.
    Feb 2 2026
    The Crucible is a 1953 play by Arthur Miller that uses the Salem witch trials as an allegory for McCarthyism. It depicts a community consumed by paranoia, false accusations, and religious extremism.
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    14 mins
  • Episode 15: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame: The Struggle Between Idealized Love and Moral Corruption

    Episode 15: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame: The Struggle Between Idealized Love and Moral Corruption
    Jan 31 2026
    Set in 15th-century Paris, Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame centers on Quasimodo, a deformed bell-ringer, and his tragic love for the beautiful Esmeralda. The novel explores themes of social injustice, obsession, and fate, serving as a powerful plea to preserve the city's Gothic architecture.
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    14 mins
  • Episode 14: Hamlet: The revenge that ended everything.

    Episode 14: Hamlet: The revenge that ended everything.
    Jan 27 2026
    Hamlet is a tragic play about Prince Hamlet, who seeks revenge against his uncle, Claudius, for murdering his father and seizing the throne. The story explores deep themes of betrayal, madness, and moral corruption as Hamlet struggles with his own indecision.
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    18 mins
  • Episode 13: The Little Prince: Innocence Lost Over the Years.

    Episode 13: The Little Prince: Innocence Lost Over the Years.
    Jan 26 2026
    The Little Prince follows a young prince traveling between planets, discovering the absurdity of adulthood and the value of friendship. It famously explores the theme that "what is essential is invisible to the eye."
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    14 mins