Birthday Boy

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

New Year, Old Year

“The Horses” by Edwin Muir

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Snow Maiden

Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice

Ho Ho Horror

Why not make this Christmas a little darker?

A Story for Christmas

“Snow” by Louis MacNeice

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Diagnostician of Despair

Why Rousseau believed that Enlightenment values would lead us to ruin

The Disappearing Modernists

Where did it all go wrong for so much music of the 20th century?

The Right Thing

The Original Influencer

Hilary Hallett on the enduring impact of Hollywood tastemaker Elinor Glyn

Last Rites and Comic Flights

A funeral in a 1984 Japanese film offers moments of slapstick amid the solemnity

The Coward

“I, Lover” by Elsa Gidlow

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Jo Bertini

Desert Song

Take Two Shots and Call Me in the Morning

Camper English on when alcohol was the cure

Famous Last Lines

How many do you know by heart?

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