Ross Cleaver discusses Carrie’s War (what is it good for?), Nina Bawdwin’s 1973 children’s book about evacuations, skulls, and grumpy Welshmen.

John McCoy with Ross Cleaver

The BBC school radio site with teaching guides and a complete recording of the book.

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Grab a whisky and soda and put your leg up. My dad and I discuss Ernest Hemingway’s “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (1936). Bonus content: a visit to the Hemingway Home in Key West!

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The former home of Ernest and the current home of many six-toed cats.

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Jelani Sims returns to discuss the literal and metaphorical ghosts of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel Beloved (1987).

John McCoy with Jelani Sims

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I have good feelings about this one! Zach Powers returns to discuss desparate criminals and mysterious benefactors in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (1861).

John McCoy with Zach Powers

Relive the 90s and enjoy the trip-hop stylings of Mono.

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There are many podcasts from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited. John and Marina discuss Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol (1843).

John McCoy with Marina McCoy

With George C. Scott.

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This is one weird mouse book. Phil Gonzales and John discuss E. B. White’s Stuart Little(1945).

John McCoy with Phil Gonzales

The Johnny Carson-narrated film from McGraw-Hill Films

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It’s Thanksgiving, so of course Rob, John, and Dan drink and discuss “The Wreck of the Hesperus” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1842).

John McCoy with Rob McCoy and Dan McCoy

Link to full poem.

The New York Times gets pedantic.

Spoiler: none of us got it right.

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Probably best not to listen to this episode while you’re in a theatre. Shannon Campe and John discuss Shakespeare’s Macbeth (1605-ish).

John McCoy with Shannon Campe

From the Folger Shakespeare Library

Featuring baby Ian McKellen and baby Judi Dench!

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The podcasts that the world calls immoral are podcasts that show the world its own shame. Tamar Avishai and John discuss Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1831).

John McCoy with Tamar Avishai

Art history for the masses

The Art Institute of Chicago’s entry

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Those smale foweles maken melodye got nothin’ on us: Kathy Campbell and John discuss Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (c. 1400).

John McCoy with Kathy Campbell

With commentary, Middle English, and Modern English translations.

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