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Save Me From My Shelf

Save Me From My Shelf

By: Abigail Boucher and Daniel Jenkin-Smith
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 We're friends and academics who take classic literature off its pedestal by making fun of it.

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Abigail Boucher and Daniel Jenkin-Smith Art Literary History & Criticism
Episodes
  • SMFMS Bookends 25: Lord of the Flies

    SMFMS Bookends 25: Lord of the Flies
    Nov 26 2025
    The twenty-fifth episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Lord of the Flies episode.

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    35 mins
  • Episode 73 - Lord of the Flies

    Episode 73 - Lord of the Flies
    Nov 19 2025

    Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. This season, we are only looking at banned and controversial texts. In our seventy-third episode, and to celebrate Internation Men's Day, we look at our blokiest book yet: William Golding's Lord of the Flies (1954). Our accents get a workout, we debate the correct pronunciation of 'conch', and learn that they don't teach this kind of thing on Nickelodeon (or, indeed, Nick At Nite).


    Cover art © Catherine Wu.


    Episode Theme: Kampen Boys Choir, 'O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem'.

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • SMFMS Bookends 24: Dante's Inferno

    SMFMS Bookends 24: Dante's Inferno
    Oct 22 2025
    The twenty-fourth episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Dante's Inferno episode.

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    31 mins
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