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READ gives you an insight into the groundbreaking literary research from Durham University’s world-class Department of English Studies. Our podcasts feature lectures by our researchers, as well as poetry readings and interviews with authors. Visit our blog and follow us on social media, or find out more about the Department of English Studies.Podcasts
Space, choreography and royal iconography at the English court
Published: Dec. 11, 2020, 11:16 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 55 seconds
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Rousing the vox populi in James Shirleys The Politician
Published: Nov. 27, 2020, 10:05 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 5 seconds
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Birds and Embodiment in Shelley and Keats
Published: Nov. 20, 2020, 10:46 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 50 seconds
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The Autobiographical Pursuit of Happiness in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Published: Nov. 13, 2020, 9:08 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 26 seconds
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In Conversation with Jane Smiley
Published: June 19, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 9 seconds
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An Evening with T.S. Eliot
Published: June 12, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 11 seconds
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To Hell with Paradise
Published: May 29, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 34 seconds
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The Challenges of Researching and Writing Poetry
Published: May 22, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 18 seconds
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The Poetry of W.B. Yeats
Published: May 15, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 37 seconds
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Celebrating the Brontes
Published: May 8, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 32 seconds
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Becoming Sea: A Blurred Lyric of the Ocean
Published: May 1, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 19 seconds
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Alfred the Great Through History
Published: April 10, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 14 seconds
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Tics in the Theatre: The 'Quiet Audience' and the Neurodivergent Spectator
Published: April 3, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 19 seconds
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Eugenics in Utopian Literature
Published: March 27, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 11 seconds
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When Masters Became Tragic Heroes
Published: March 13, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 40 seconds
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Fiction and the Victorian Vivisector
Published: March 6, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 35 seconds
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(S)hes just not that into you: Resisting Love in Medieval Romance Literature
Published: Feb. 21, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 36 seconds
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Registers of petition in the holograph manuscripts of Thomas Hoccleve
Published: Feb. 14, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 19 seconds
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Poet Caroline Bird Speaks to the 98 Percent
Published: Feb. 12, 2020, 9 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 36 seconds
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The Stream of Consciousness in William Wordsworth and James Joyce
Published: Feb. 7, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 4 seconds
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The Geographic and Linguistic Identity of the American Midwest
Published: Feb. 5, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 25 seconds
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Inscribing Identities in Childhood and Deathbed Scenes
Published: Jan. 24, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 16 seconds
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Beginnings and Endings in Ovids Metamorphoses
Published: Jan. 17, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 54 seconds
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Shakespeare, Henry VIII, and the day the Globe burned down
Published: Jan. 10, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 27 seconds
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Classical Music, Conflict, and Identity in the Contemporary Novel
Published: Jan. 10, 2020, 9 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 40 seconds
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Snake Women: Crafting Power in Medieval Origin Stories
Published: Jan. 3, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 32 seconds
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A Short History of Interactive Narratives
Published: Jan. 3, 2020, 9 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 12 seconds
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Dickens's Ghosts: An Altered Perspective
Published: Dec. 23, 2019, 9 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 21 seconds
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Rachael Boast on the Language and Sound of Poetry
Published: Dec. 11, 2019, 8 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 58 seconds
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Brexit and the Democratic Intellect
Published: Dec. 5, 2019, 9 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 56 seconds
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Will Harris on Becoming a Poet
Published: Nov. 13, 2019, 8 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 36 seconds
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Future Memory and Circular Time in Charles Dickens' 'The Signal-Man'
Published: Nov. 8, 2019, 2:01 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 26 seconds
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The Classical Underworld as a Memoryscape
Published: Nov. 1, 2019, 11:58 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes
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Polly Atkin on the Places of Her Poetry
Published: Oct. 16, 2019, 7 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 20 seconds
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Time and Place: Bakhtin and Shakespeare
Published: Sept. 30, 2019, 1:48 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 36 seconds
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JL Williams on the Origins of Her Poetry
Published: Sept. 18, 2019, 7 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 5 seconds
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Wandering Across Scandinavia in Egils Saga
Published: Sept. 16, 2019, 8 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 37 seconds
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Gillian Allnutt on a Life in Poetry
Published: Aug. 21, 2019, 7 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 7 seconds
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Liz Berry's Locations and Locutions
Published: Aug. 7, 2019, 8 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes
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Aurelia Lassaque on Poetry Across Languages
Published: July 25, 2019, 10:05 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 8 seconds
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The Pleasures and Challenges of Contemporary Literature
Published: July 19, 2019, 8:13 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 2 seconds
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Crash and Burn: A Poetry Reading in Memory of Michael ONeill
Published: March 21, 2019, 11:22 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 45 seconds
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Philosophy and Literature
Published: Feb. 16, 2019, 10:43 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 55 seconds
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