Save Me From My Shelf

By Abigail Boucher and Daniel Jenkin-SmithComedy Arts Books

Save Me From My Shelf episodes

August 14, 2024 Episode 58 - To Kill a Mockingbird
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our fifty-eighth episode, we once again cross the Atlantic for Harper Lee's 1960 novel of racial injustice, To Kill A Mockingbird. We get some long-overdue Cornish slander, delve into the American legalistic mindset, and mutter a lot about grits and yams.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode Theme: Daniel Jenkin-Smith on keyboard, 'Mockingbird Lullaby'.
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1 hr 18 min
August 07, 2024 SMFMS Bookends 8: Through the Looking Glass
The eighth 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 Through the Looking Glass episode.
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37 min
July 31, 2024 Episode 57b - Through the Looking Glass
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In the second part of our fifty-seventh episode, we recap Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass (1871) and discuss rare spatial reasoning issues, Abby's peasant background (which includes tunnel-corn), famous egg-men, and if a single move in chess is measured in speed or mobility.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode Theme: Camille Saint-Saens, The Carnival of the Animals, '10 Voliere', played backwards.
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59 min
July 24, 2024 SMFMS Bookends 7: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The seventh 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 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland episode.
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31 min
July 17, 2024 Episode 57a - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In the first part of our fifty-seventh episode, we regress to childhood and look at Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). We examine Lewis Carroll's sexual vs. artistic motives, take our first dive into nonsense literature, and celebrate confectionary, being mean to children, and Alice's criminal escalations.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode Theme: Camille Saint-Saens, The Carnival of the Animals, '10 Voliere'.
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1 hr 8 min
June 19, 2024 SMFMS Bookends 6 - A Midsummer Night's Dream
The sixth 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 Midsummer Night's Dream episode.

You can hear us on an episode of Carl Sweeney's The Movie Palace here, in the last 5-10 minutes of the show, where we recommend our favourite pre-'70s film: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/classic-movie-recommendations-part-1/id1398503911?i=1000656989665
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34 min
June 12, 2024 Episode 56 - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our fifty-sixth episode, we celebrate midsummer with Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1605). We make a lot of (obvious) jokes about asses, Amazon, and fairy kink (despite not reading THE fairy kink book).

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode Theme: Felix Mendelssohn, A Midsummer Night's Dream 'Op 61'
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1 hr 9 min
May 22, 2024 SMFMS Bookends 5 - The Grapes of Wrath
The 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 The Grapes of Wrath episode.
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33 min
May 15, 2024 Episode 55 - The Grapes of Wrath
Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our fifty-fifth episode, we recap John Steinbeck's 1939 Dust Bowl adventure, Biblical allegory, and socialist manifesto, The Grapes of Wrath. It's all pigs, sex, and pooping (a shocking amount of pooping). We discover the show's second mono-butt-cheeked character, Abby develops a backup plan for a life of crime, and Daniel goes on a rant about topsoil.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode Theme: 'Woody' on guitar and harmonica, by Daniel Jenkin-Smith.
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1 hr 17 min
April 24, 2024 SMFMS Bookends 4: The Time Machine
The forth 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 The Time Machine episode.
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42 min