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Reading marginal, minor, and absolutely unread Old and Middle English poetry, paired with a thematically appropriate cocktail.... more
FAQs about The Canterbury Fails:How many episodes does The Canterbury Fails have?The podcast currently has 67 episodes available.
February 14, 2026Peterborough Chronicle: So Much Pain and Woe--and that's just the drinkThe barrage of William's assholery as he wrecks his own people, and the barrage of high Scoville agony as David wrecks Matt....more58minPlay
January 31, 2026Richard the Redeless: Terrible Poem Terrible DrinkEx post facto fake news propaganda for Henry 4 with a purple ass-crap Nixonian cocktail. ...more1h 4minPlay
January 17, 2026Old English Daniel: Minds Destroyed - Belshazzar's and Matt and David'sTyrants resists dreams and a tiki exploding fire brain breaker ...more57minPlay
December 20, 2025The Knight's Tale and a Tropical Planet: Canonical and Imperial Despite or Because its ArtIs Chaucer out of control? Is the Canterbury Fails studio out of control? Is this whole thing completely out of control? With tiki drinks....more50minPlay
December 12, 2025The Old English Verse Genesis: Shiny Satan and Apple Brandy Power5 minutes after David gets home from a late flight and breaks into his own house, we have to answer the simple question: "Can a poem be both a justification and an interrogation of the ways of God to man?" We try and mostly fail to figure out this Biblical epic, but we enjoy a potent monastic Calvados Pow! Right in the kisser. ....more1hPlay
November 22, 2025The Trotula: Medical Cures for Women and a Murky Bilge Flower DrinkCan a compendium of terrifying recipes for female health problems represent resistance to patriarchal authoritarianism? And can a violet brandy disaster taste any worse? Find out on this week's Canterbury Fails....more58minPlay
November 08, 2025Cynewulf's Elene: Troubling True Cross and a Licorice-Lemon QuaffA bearded Coley and plain faced Hussey debate Cynewulf's ethnic ideological steamroller with special guest appearance by a demon, Judas (not the one you think), and a very stern war-lady. Plus an anisette and smoke blasted cocktail....more59minPlay
October 27, 2025Special Episode: Siân Echard and Alexandra Gillespie on Thomas Gascoigne's PreceptsCHAUCER'S DEAD. So dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dr. Gillespie and Dr Echard discuss this, plus John of Gaunt's decaying phallus, Gower's poseur tomb, King Arthur's butterfly bishop, and more. ...more47minPlay
October 17, 2025Gower's Virginius and Chaucer's Physician's Tale: The Commons and the CreepsThe rank and brutal foulness of the brown fizzy berry cruelty overwhelmed the judicial malfeasance and filicidal love of these Middle English moral exempla. Everything sucked....more1h 3minPlay
September 27, 2025Beowulf: Imperial Epic / Insurgent PoetryMatt and David freak the hell out about Beowulf after an exploding flaming cinnamon disaster / triumph, and one of us still has glitter in our teeth. Hwæt?...more55minPlay
FAQs about The Canterbury Fails:How many episodes does The Canterbury Fails have?The podcast currently has 67 episodes available.