A Painter and a Poet:

Lance and Jacqui Larsen visit the show to discuss their current co-exhibit at the Springville Museum of Art. In addition, they address how domestic duty can also, can actually serve as catalyst and inspiration for living creative lives.

We couldn't resist that! BYU Comp Lit's Nate Kramer joins Dean for an appreciation of 19th century Denmark's incalculable Hans Christian Andersen and Soren Kierkegaard.

Dean welcomes BYU classicist Roger MacFarlane for a conversation about how present in and important to contemporary life those old Greeks and Romans really are.

Dean welcomes literary scholar Paul Westover to discuss the numerous innovations and vast influence of this great and too often underappreciated Scottish man of letters.

Professor John Bennion visits This'll Take A While with tales of one of BYU English's most stunning study abroad program. Join John and his students as they visit the shrines and follow in the footsteps of some of Britain's greatest literary luminaries.

Chip Oscarson, director of BYU's Scandinavian program, joins Dean for a geographical, historical, climatological and spiritual overview of the lands from which so many of you listeners originated.

Scott Miller is the dean of BYU's College of Humanities. He is also a distinguished scholar and ardent lover of things Japanese. In this program we find Dean trying to get him to pick a lane.

BYU English department chair Phil Snyder joins Dean to open up some of the whys and ways of examining your own life, and writing your own history.

Sharon Swenson visits the program with a lyrical, luminous reminiscence of her upbringing in Cedar City, and environs.  She also measures the after-ripples, and their continuing undulation.

Spanish scholar Dale Pratt joins Dean for a celebration of Miguel de Cervantes' incalculably important, inexhaustibly enjoyable literary milestone.