Friday, February 03, 2006

iPod Food : Dead White Males

Dead White Males: Here's a neat little podcast worth recommending. It's not specifically Shakespeare, but "Dead White Males" is produced by Eric Jean, a literature student who is "considering teaching this stuff some day." I listened to him do just under an hour on Merchant of Venice, which was pretty cool. Mostly a plot summary, but also some commentary on the characters, as well as readings of key passages.

This is not a Shakespeare only podcast, though, so I can only hope that he covers my favorite subject frequently enough that I don't end up dropping him off my list. Other authors currently mentioned on his homepage include Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Blake, Thomas Hardy and others.

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2 comments:

Alan K.Farrar said...

If you are widening your podcasts a little I do recommend the bbc in the UK.
There is one programme, In Our Time, http://www.webcom.com/pweller/bradley/tr407.html
which regularly deals with cultural issues. Next week they are looking at Chaucer - and for one week only, the programme is downloadable as mp3.
In the archive section they have a lot of programmes listenable to online: do look in the culture section.
Self, aint got an ipod so if you find any more of this stuff downloadable to mp3, I'd be most grateful,
AKF

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Duane Morin said...

Thanks for the tip, Alan. In general I prefer to look for MP3 sources so that it is not ipod-only. Most of what you find my pointing to will be MP3. So far the only thing that was ipod only was the Stanford lecture by Benholz.

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