Space, choreography and royal iconography at the English court
For diplomats coming to the court of Charles I, it was more than a case of knocking at the door...
19:55
Space, choreography and royal iconography at the English court
For diplomats coming to the court of Charles I, it was more than a case of knocking at the door...
19:55
Rousing the vox populi in James Shirley’s The Politician
In this podcast from our Late Summer Lectures series, Kathleen Foy from Durham University...
19:05
Birds and Embodiment in Shelley and Keats
In this podcast from our Late Summer Lectures series, Dr Amanda Blake Davis of the University of...
23:50
The Autobiographical Pursuit of Happiness in Eighteenth-Century Literature
In this podcast from our Late Summer Lectures series, Alex Hobday (University of Cambridge)...
30:26
In Conversation with Jane Smiley
In a wide-ranging interview, Pulitzer-prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley explains how literary...
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The Centre for Poetry and Poetics held an evening to celebrate the poetry and influence of T.S....
49:11
John Clegg’s first collection, Antler, features prehistoric landscapes, folk tale and myth....
11:28
Gareth Reeves’ third collection, To Hell With Paradise: New and Selected Poems, has just been...
16:34
The Challenges of Researching and Writing Poetry
Two of the Department’s published poets, Gareth Reeves and his PhD student John Clegg, explore...
11:18
A century and a half since his birth, the Irish poet W.B. Yeats is one of the best-loved in the...
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Celebrate the literature and legacy of the Brontë sisters in this podcast, recorded around the...
01:06:32
Becoming Sea: A Blurred Lyric of the Ocean
We humans are creatures of the land, who usually observe the sea from above its surface. Beneath...
22:19
Albion. Today that word conjures impressions of a lost, utopian version of Britain – but the...
40:00
Alfred the Great Through History
A king sits by the fire in a peasant’s cottage, brooding on the problems of his kingdom....
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Tics in the Theatre: The 'Quiet Audience' and the Neurodivergent Spectator
Do you get annoyed when people rustle their crisp packets or check their mobile phones in the...
40:19
Eugenics in Utopian Literature
The idea of genetic engineering may conjure visions of futuristic horror, such as mutant human...
23:11
When Masters Became Tragic Heroes
In 1592 the face of theatre changed forever. From the death of Julius Caesar and its wide...
35:40
Fiction and the Victorian Vivisector
The idea of vivisection – performing surgical experiments on live animals in the name of science...
20:35
(S)he’s just not that into you: Resisting Love in Medieval Romance Literature
The word ‘romance’ conjures images of men and women meeting one another and falling helplessly...
22:36
Registers of petition in the holograph manuscripts of Thomas Hoccleve
Durham University’s Palace Green Library is home to many medieval manuscripts, but among the...
22:19
S1E1 - Proverbs 01
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#72 To the Bookbar
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Prologue
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