Save Me From My Shelf

Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our Season 3 premiere and twenty-sixth episode, we read one of the world's (apparently) Most Boring Classics™ and take our first foray into Russian literature with Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (1866). Abby gives some train trivia, Daniel reveals a fetish for clerks, and everyone faints forever.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode theme: Fëdor Shalyapin, 'Ey, ukhnem!'

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More bonus content for the summer hiatus.

It's all about animals this time: all the ones Daniel hates, the ones that turn up in dreams, and the ones that our natural enemies (the Devonians) use to mock the Cornish.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode theme: Camille Saint-Saens, Carnival of the Animals, 'Finale'.

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Another steaming bowl of bonus material coming your way.

This podcast, provisionally named 'Carry on up the Canon', has never shied away from the odd bawdy joke, except when sublimating these into food talk, so please enjoy some of the odder examples compiled into one handy reel.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode theme: 'Sexy' by Benjamin Tissot

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A bit of bonus material to tide you over during the summer hiatus.

The archives of Save Me From My Shelf are littered with cultural insights and aperçus which would have felt out of place in any particular episode, but needed to be heard. Here are some of the best compiled into one manageable reel.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode theme: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 'Overture' to Don Giovanni, performed by the Fulda Symphonic Orchestra.

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Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our twenty-fifth episode, End of Season 2, and End-Of-Year Special, we read George Eliot's 1861 proto-Realist/German Idealist/grudgingly sensational novel, Silas Marner. Come celebrate with us and Friedrich Nietzsche as we finally hear Daniel's real accent, produce a special range of S&M SMFMS whips, and eat some rum-ham.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode themes: Ludwig van Beethoven, 'Allegretto, Symphony No.6, Op.68 ("Pastoral")', performed and arranged by Paul de Bra.

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Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. Our DoublePlusTolerable twenty-fourth episode covers George Orwell's 1949 totalitarian dystopia, 1984. If you're looking for an UnGood time, tune in for everything reeking of cabbage, adventures in antiquing, and surprisingly erotic sex scenes (the perverts). No need to DoubleThink twice!

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode themes: 'Spliff and Wesson' by Airglow.

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Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. Our twenty-third episode features the Antichrist, an indictment of the £10 note, the King of Himbos, and some snippets from Daniel's erotic fanfiction when we cover Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813).

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode themes: Beethoven, 'Egmont Overture Op.84'; Boieldieu, 'Caliph de Bagdad' recorded by Richard Siegel.

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Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. Our twenty-second episode is one extended queer reading--full of dodgy back doors, debauchery-filled strolls, and a vicious debate about if a mirror is weird or not--as we recap Robert Louis Stevenson's science fiction novella, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886).

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode theme: Franz Liszt, 'Totentanz'.

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Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. Our twenty-first episode is full of intrusive THOTS, dawg-named babies, power bottoms, and 'inelegant horseplay' as we recap Tennessee Williams's screwball tragedy, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955).

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode theme: Gus Arnheim Orchestra, 'How Long Will It Last' (1931).

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Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. Our twentieth episode is nothing but potatoes, patriarchy, and proverbs with Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958).

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode theme: 'Udu Sound' on Ibo drum (Wikimedia Commons).

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