Not just book chat! The Literary Life Podcast is an ongoing conversation about the skill and art of reading well and the lost intellectual tradition needed to fully enter into the great works of literature. Experienced teachers Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks (of www.HouseOfHumaneLetters.com) join lifelong reader Cindy Rollins (of www.MorningtimeForMoms.com) for slow reads of classic literature, conversations with book lovers, and an ever-unfolding discussion of how Stories Will Save the ...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a founding fable of our modern age. We are the wedding guests, and the albatross around the Mariner's neck is an emblem of human despair and our abuse of the natural world. Yet in its beautiful terror there lies a wondrous solution – that we might wake up and find ourselves saved. Art knows no boundaries. The Ancient Mariner Big Read is an inclusive, immersive work of audio and visual art from the 21st century that reflects the sweeping majesty and abiding ...
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Voices of Today provides services in audiobook narration and production. The proprietors are Denis Daly and Sarah Bacaller who are professional audiobook narrators and producers. Denis Daly has provided narration and editing services for many projects at Librivox.org and Legamus.eu. He is also a founding member of Rhapsodize, a group which promotes the performance and recording of classic poetry. Currently, he has over 300 titles in the catalogue at Audible.com, and several more recordings a ...
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Classic horror tales told by Cassandra Harold. We feature stories from Poe, Lovecraft, Stevenson, Dickens, Bierce and more. Jim Harold Media LLC respects writers' intellectual property. All fictional stories on Unpleasant Dreams are in the U.S. public domain, published before 1928.
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I narrate stories about, and the background to, my albums and my musicals. These include: Rock Songs, Love Songs, Children's Songs, Pop Songs, Sing Along with History songs and one longer show about how I put the entire poem of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor to music. In this show I play all 21 songs that I wrote to cover the entire poem. The other 35 shows contain five or six songs and one final podcast 37, where I talk about my Memories of Pip, when I played that part in ...
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An exciting, compelling, and eerie ballad, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner focuses on the uncanny experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage that has left him with a heavy burden to bear. Furthermore, the poem explores numerous themes including retribution, suffering, salvation, torment, nature, spirituality, and supernaturalism. The poem opens with the appearance of its mysterious protagonist, a skinny old man with a curious glittering eye, as he stops a young man who i ...
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A reading from the new book, Hamlet in Exile, by Ulf Kirchdorfer. Hamlet in Exile is a collection of poems in which Ulf Kirchdorfer imagines the Hamlet from Shakespeare's play to travel to other parts of the world and in other periods of time. Poor Yorick had nothing on the Hamlet who ambles and sometimes tumbles from the Renaissance into the 21st century in this witty and ironic collection by Ulf Kirchdorfer. The young prince goes fishing, skates on ice, paints, plays Jeopardy and the guita ...
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Gather around as poet MJ Millington tells remarkable tales from the history of poetry. Wizard battles, time capsules, opium dreams, prophecies, witches and wombats—you name it, there’s a poem about it, and a good story to go with it.
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We try to read and discuss ALL the books in the western canon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Unreliable Narrators is a podcast where we discuss media, literature, and the arts and how they relate to Christ, the self, and the world.
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An alphabetical journey through the discography of the mighty Iron Maiden, one song at a time!
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Complete NCERT Syllabus CLASS 10 English
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In this podcast we enter the world of tortured geniuses,musicians,poets,politicians,dictators that have addictions that lead them to bizarre circumstances
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Episode 248: “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by S. T. Coleridge, Part 1
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On today’s episode of The Literary Life, Angelina and Thomas discuss the first half of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner. They review some of the ideas covered last week, particularly Romanticism and the harkening back to the medieval tradition in contrast to the Neo-Classicism that preceded this period. Thomas sets up the plot …
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The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:https://n9.cl/c1utoThe Rime of the Ancient MarinerBy Samuel Taylor ColeridgeNarrated by Gregory DwyerThe longest major poem by renowned English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge tells of a wedding guest who is intercepted on his way to the ceremony by an old mariner. The mariner engages the…
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Unpleasant Dreams 59
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What would you do if you were on your way to a wedding and a sailor stops you tell you a story about life or death? This week Cassandra Harold tells us The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This poem was first published in 1798 and is in the Public Domain. Cassandra is narrating an 1834 edition. This famous poem features popul…
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The Vampyre - Unpleasant Dreams 60
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Happy Halloween! Cassandra Harold reads the short work of prose fiction, "The Vampyre," by John William Polidori on this week's Unpleasant Dreams. It was written in 1819, was published in New Monthly Magazine that year, and is in the Public Domain. "The Vampyre" is believed to have started the romantic vampire genre. We hope you enjoy! -- Jim Harol…
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Maiden A-Z 169: Satelite 15... The Final Frontier
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Space... The final frontier. To explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before.
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The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:https://n9.cl/i7ts0The Last Chronicle of BarsetBy Anthony TrollopeNarrated by Steve GoughIn the last of the six novels in the Chronicles of Barsetshire series Trollope relates the story of the impecunious curate Josiah Crawley who is falsely accused of stealing a cheque. The community …
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Episode 247: Introduction to "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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On The Literary Life podcast this week, Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks begin their newest series, this time discussing Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner. First, Thomas and Angelina speak to the question of different editions of this poem, then they dive into the background on Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and the lyrical ba…
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Maiden A-Z: Remember Di'Anno (1958-2024)
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With a little help from friends on both sides of the ever-raging sea (Theo Zwetsloot & Greg DiPasquale) we honor the legacy of one Paul Andrews, after his recent departure from this mortal soil. Rest in Peace.
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The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:A Defence of SkeletonsBy G. K. ChestertonNarrated by Sarah BacallerWhy do humans have a horror of skeletons? Is this aversion justified? What does it signify?Such are the animating questions of this essay by G. K. Chesterton, who acts as a witty defendant for humanity’s hidden form:“Wi…
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The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:A Defence of Baby-WorshipBy G. K. ChestertonNarrated by Sarah BacallerA Defence of Baby-Worship“The fascination of children lies in this: that with each of them all things are remade, and the universe is put again upon its trial.”With G. K. C.’s characteristic wit, he explores in this …
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The conplete audiobook is available purchase at Audible.com:https://n9.cl/aor5nElegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate LadyBy Alexander PopeEdited by W. C. ArmstrongRead by Denis DalyThis short poem, first published in 1717, has become one of Pope's best-known verse works. The actual history of the lady appears to have been intentionally concealed by…
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The Music of Erich Zann - Unpleasant Dreams 58
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This week's Unpleasant Dreams features a horror story written by H.P. Lovecraft. Cassandra Harold narrates the short story, "The Music of Erich Zann." "The Music of Erich Zann" was written in 1921 and first published in 1922 and is in the Public Domain. -- Jim Harold Media LLC respects writers' intellectual property. All fictional stories on Unplea…
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The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:https://n9.cl/pn44yWindsor ForestBy Alexander PopeRead by Denis DalyAlthough most of Windsor Forest was written as early as 1704, it was not published until 1713. The poem was completed after the promulgation of the first peace treaty of Utrecht, which is alluded to in terms of approba…
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Episode 246: “Best of” Series – “Are Women Human” by Dorothy L. Sayers, Ep. 9
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Today’s episode of The Literary Life podcast is one in our “Best of The Literary Life” series. This week’s remix is a conversation from 2019 between Angelina Stanford and Cindy Rollins in which they discuss Dorothy L. Sayers’ essay “Are Women Human?“ They explore the ideas that Sayers wrestles with in the essay, including: the Victorian view of wom…
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The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:https://n9.cl/zdfaaLord Peter Views the Body By Dorothy L. SayersNarrated by Graham ScottTwelve mysteries for Dorothy L. Sayers' aristocratic sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey. Including: a mystery man disturbs the peace of an actor at the home of a famous sculptor; Lord Peter's curiousity is …
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The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:https://n9.cl/4a6jkThorndyke Novels 9-12By R. Austin FreemanNarrated by Graham ScottA third collection of full-length adventures for R. Austen Freeman's great forensic detective, Dr John Thorndyke.First, in The D'Arblay Mystery, the body of Julius D'Arblay is found beneath the surface …
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The Masque of the Red Death - Unpleasant Dreams 57
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Join us this week on Unpleasant Dreams as Cassandra Harold tells us the story of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death." "The Masque of the Red Death" (originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy") is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1842 and is in the Public Domain. -- Jim Harold Media…
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The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:https://n9.cl/pp0k1RagsBy Ty DragoNarrated by Jennifer FournierAtlantic City, 1982.One cold December night, sixteen-year-old Abby Lowell and her foster sister are rescued by a mysterious and deadly figure in rags and a large hood. Abby never learns his name and never sees his face, but…
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The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:https://n9.cl/70x0egJapanese Fairy TalesBy Yei Theodora OzakiNarrated by Linda BarransMany of the stories in this book seem at the same time both familiar and strange.Their authors valued family, duty, patience and heroism. They longed for children in their old age, and rejoiced when t…
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Episode 245: “Murder Must Advertise” by Dorothy Sayers, Ch. 17-End
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Today on The Literary Life podcast, hosts Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks wrap up their series on Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers. To begin the conversation, Thomas shares his reaction on finishing this book. Angelina then dives into her discoveries of Alice in Wonderland references throughout all of Sayers' detective books. They talk…
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The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:https://n9.cl/o2w93zAgatha WebbBy Anna Katharine GreenNarrated by Lyndal Curran DoolanIn a quiet seaside town in New England, the reclusive Agatha Webb and her servant are found dead. Agatha has had a number of children who died in infancy. Local residents are divided in their opinions…
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Maiden A-Z 168: Man for Your Lives!
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We team up with the Fergazoid for some juicy attempts at predicting Iron Maidens next live setlist, among other things.
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A Ghost Story - Unpleasant Dreams 56
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Believe it or not, Mark Twain actually wrote a classic ghost story. Appropriately enough, it was called, "A Ghost Story" and it is our Season 4 premiere. Much more to come this fall! It is great to be back and thanks for your patience! We'll be back next week with more chilling Unpleasant Dreams. "A Ghost Story" by Mark Twain, was originally publis…
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The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:https://n9.cl/820njnSpirals & StarsBy Kate GordonNarrated by Sarah BacallerIt’s 1993. Beth McMaugh is eleven years old and about to start Year Six. Her best friend, Ashlee, assures Beth that it is going to be the best year ever, but then why is she sitting with the popular girls? When …
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The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:https://n9.cl/p6g01Byron's Narrative of the Loss of the WagerBy John ByronNarrated by Graham ScottEmbarking from England as part of Commodore Anson’s expedition to the Pacific, HMS Wager was wrecked on a desert island to the southward of Chiloe. Following the wreck, the crew suffered d…
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The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:https://n9.cl/upj9oLife Among Hollywood’s ‘Extra’ GirlsBy Edgcumb PinchonNarrated by Lee Ann HowlettThe 1920s was a bustling time in Hollywood, as starry-eyed young women sought fame and fortune—only to discover that their dreams did not match the reality of the film industry.Edgcumb P…
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Maiden A-Z 167: Sanctuary
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The leader of the slaughtercult himself, Matt Harvey (Exhumed, Gruesome, Left to Die, Pounder etc.) joins us as we ride out of the winter and look for Sanctuary... ...from the laaaa-ååååååw. We always want to hear from you lovely people! Drop us a line on Instagram, Twitter, or shoot us an e-mail. We are maidenazpod pretty much everywhere. Be sure …
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Episode 244: "Murder Must Advertise" by Dorothy Sayers, Ch. 12-16
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Today’s episode of The Literary Life podcast picks up our series on Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers with a discussion of chapters 12-16. After sharing their commonplace quotes, Angelina and Thomas begin by talking about whether Sayers is “too accomplished” to be writing detective stories and the decline and resurgence of the genre. Angel…
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The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:https://n9.cl/l2znyhEloisa to AbelardBy Alexander PopeRead by Denis DalyThe romantic epistle was published in 1717 and aroused considerable interest because of its mildly suggestive content.It portrays an incident in which Héloïse d'Argenteuil, now immured in a convent chances on a let…
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Episode 243: “Murder Must Advertise” by Dorothy Sayers, Ch. 6-11
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1On The Literary Life podcast this week, we continue our series on Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers, covering chapters 6-11. Angelina and Thomas begin the discussion talking about authors and their own thoughts on their best books versus those which readers seem to like best. Angelina shares some of the things she has learned about the dr…
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Maiden A-Z 166: Dismaiden with Fred Estby
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Since many moons, our re-occuring guest host Greg DiPasquale has requested that we get a DIsmember on the show, seeing as they combine his passion for death metal and Iron Maiden alike. And, finally: here we are! Let's find out, once and for all, where those iron crosses grow. We always want to hear from you lovely people! Drop us a line on Instagr…
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Episode 242: "Murder Must Advertise" by Dorothy L. Sayers, Intro and Ch. 1-5
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Welcome back to The Literary Life podcast and the beginning of our series on Dorothy L. Sayers' classic detective novel, Murder Must Advertise. Beginning with the Golden Age of the detective novel and the backdrop of World War I, Angelina and Thomas give some historical background to provide a setting for this novel. Angelina also shares some biogr…
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Call it a crossover, call it something else. Either way: The badlands now are home to us. We always want to hear from you lovely people! Drop us a line on Instagram, Twitter, or shoot us an e-mail. We are maidenazpod pretty much everywhere. Be sure to join our group on Facebook - Maiden A-Z: Friends of The Beast!…
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The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audiible.com:https://n9.cl/nxwnnCarmillaBy Sheridan Le FanuNarrated by Linda BarransWhen the tale begins, a strange and sudden malady is claiming the lives of the local peasants in Styria. Laura, an innocent girl of eighteen, lives a lonely life there with her loving father and two governesses.The…
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The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:https://n9.cl/dpaqsThe Hardy Boys Mysteries - Volume 1By Franklin W. DixonNarrated by Gary D. MacFaddenFranklin W. Dixon was a pseudonym used by several authors writing series books for the Stratemeyer Syndicate, including The Hardy Boys and the Nancy Drew series.This collection introd…
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The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:https://n9.cl/66vj2oFairies and FusiliersBy Robert GravesNarrated by Denis Daly Poet, soldier, novelist, translator and critic Robert Graves (1895 - 1985) was deeply familiar with both war and death. Three times during his life Graves was considered to be on the point of death due to s…
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Maiden A-Z 165: Run to the Hills
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Pain and misery from across the sea? Fear not! Erik, Henrik and Luis are here to save your tribe. We always want to hear from you lovely people! Drop us a line on Instagram, Twitter, or shoot us an e-mail. We are maidenazpod pretty much everywhere. Be sure to join our group on Facebook - Maiden A-Z: Friends of The Beast!…
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Episode 241: Why Read Dante with Jason Baxter
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On this week’s episode of The Literary Life podcast, we are excited to bring you a new conversation with hosts Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks and their guest Dr. Jason Baxter. They open the discussion with some thoughts on why Dante has had renewed popularity in recent days. Jason talks about the big questions that poets seek to answer, and wha…
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