Straight Talking English
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Straight Talking English gives you the context and stories behind secondary school Literature in ordinary language that anyone can enjoy. Come join us for terrible mockney jokes as the wrapping paper for surprisingly rigorous research!
Support the show, check out the youtube channel and buy the books which accompany each series at straighttalkingenglish.co.uk!
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Season Six Episode Five: Mr Birling
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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Season Six Episode Four: Who was J B Priestley?
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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Season Six Episode Three: The Class System
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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Season Six Episode Two: What is Socialism?
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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Season Six Episode One: Edwardian Britain
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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Season Five Episode Nine: The Monster
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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Season Five Episode Eight: Victor Frankenstein
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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Season Five Episode Seven: The Science of Frankenstein (pt 2)
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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Special Episode: Macbeth and the Gunpowder Plot
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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Halloween Special: Is it Gothic?
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Season Five Episode Six: The Science of Frankenstein (pt 1)
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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Season Five Episode Five: Mary Shelley (Pt 2)
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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Season Five Episode Four: Mary Shelley (Pt 1)
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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Season Five Episode Three: Gothic Literature
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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Season Five Episode Two: Romanticism
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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Season Five Episode One: The Enlightenment
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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AMA: What makes a good poem?
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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AMA: Was Marlowe a better writer than Shakespeare?
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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AMA: Why is important to consider intersectionality in female representations in literature?
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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AMA: What do you consider to be Shakespeare's most distinctive work?
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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AMA: What is Magic Realism?
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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AMA: What's the difference between fantasy and sci-fi?
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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Season Four Episode Twenty Six: The final poems.
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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Season Four Episode Twenty Five: Daljit Nagra's 'Singh Song'
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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Season Four Episode Twenty-Four: Carol Ann Duffy's 'Before You Were Mine'
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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Season Four Episode Twenty Three: Imtiaz Dharker's 'Tissue'
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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Season Four Episode Twenty Two: Simon Armitage's 'Mother Any Distance' and 'Remains'
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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Season Four Episode Twenty One: John Agard's 'Checking Out Me History'
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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Season Four Episode Twenty: Carol Rumens' 'Emigree'
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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Season Four Episode Nineteen: Beatrice Garland's 'Kamikaze'
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May 29, 2020 |
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Season Five Episode Eighteen: Carol Ann Duffy's 'War Photographer'
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May 22, 2020 |
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Season Four Episode Seventeen: Charles Causley and 'Eden Rock'
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May 15, 2020 |
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Season Four Episode Sixteen: Cecil Day Lewis' 'Walking Away'
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May 09, 2020 |
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Season Four Episode Fifteen: Seamus Heaney's 'Follower' and 'Storm on the Island'
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Apr 25, 2020 |
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Season Four Episode Fourteen: Ted Hughes' Bayonet Charge
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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Season Four Episode Thirteen: Jane Weir's 'Poppies'
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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Season Four Episode Twelve: Wilfred Owen's 'Exposure'.
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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Season Four Episode Eleven: Tennyson's 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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Season Four Episode Ten: Charlotte Mew and 'The Farmer's Bride'
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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BONUS EPISODE: St Patrick's Day Special feat. Hollyzone History
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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Season Four Episode Nine: Thomas Hardy's Neutral Tones
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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Season Four Episode Eight: Percy Shelley and Love's Philosophy
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Mar 06, 2020 |
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ANNIVERSARY BONUS: Interview with poet Lola Oh
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Feb 29, 2020 |
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Season Four Episode Seven: Percy Shelley's Ozymandias
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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ANNIVERSARY BONUS: Interview with poet Dave Ward from The Windows Project
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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ANNIVERSARY BONUS: Interview with poet Caleb Parkin
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Feb 22, 2020 |
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Season Four Episode Six: Robert Browning, 'Porphyria's Lover' and 'My Last Duchess'
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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ANNIVERSARY BONUS: Interview with poet Paul Lyalls
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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Season Four Episode Five: Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Sonnet 29
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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Season Four Episode Four: Byron's When We Two Parted.
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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ANNIVERSARY BONUS: Interview with linguist Marcello Giovanelli
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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ANNIVERSARY BONUS: Interview with poet Laura Mucha
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Feb 01, 2020 |
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Season Four Episode Three: Wordsworth's The Prelude
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Jan 31, 2020 |
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Season Four Episode Two: William Blake's London
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Jan 24, 2020 |
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Season Four Episode One: Revolutions, Rebels and Romantics (Pt 2)
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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Season Four Episode One: Revolutions, Rebels and Romantics (Pt 1)
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: Tackling an Unseen Poem
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Dec 27, 2019 |
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MINISERIES: Curley's Wife and Crooks
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Dec 20, 2019 |
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MINISERIES: George, Lennie, Violence and America
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Dec 13, 2019 |
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MINISERIES: John Steinbeck and creating Of Mice and Men
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Dec 06, 2019 |
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MINISERIES: Dreams in Of Mice and Men
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Nov 29, 2019 |
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Season Three Episode Twenty: Imperial Fears in The Sign of Four
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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Season Three Episode Nineteen: The Empire in The Sign of Four
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Nov 08, 2019 |
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HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: Jack the Ripper and his influence on Literature
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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Season Three Episode Eighteen: The Plot of The Sign of Four
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Oct 25, 2019 |
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Season Three Episode Seventeen: Sherlock Holmes
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Oct 11, 2019 |
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Season Three Episode Sixteen: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Oct 04, 2019 |
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Season Three Episode Fourteen: The Rest of the Cast
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Sep 13, 2019 |
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Season Three Episode Fifteen: Reactions to A Christmas Carol
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Sep 13, 2019 |
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BONUS AMA: Othello, Race and Conflict
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Sep 06, 2019 |
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Season Three Episode Thirteen: The Ghosts of A Christmas Carol
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Aug 30, 2019 |
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BONUS AMA: Who wrote Shakespeare's plays?
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Aug 23, 2019 |
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Season Three Episode Twelve: Ebeneezer Scrooge
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Aug 16, 2019 |
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Season Three Episode Eleven: The Plot of A Christmas Carol
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Aug 09, 2019 |
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Season Three Episode Ten: Dickens and the Wrongs of Society
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Aug 02, 2019 |
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Season Three Episode Nine: Charles Dickens
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Jul 26, 2019 |
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Season Three Episode Eight: Queen Victoria's Christmas
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Jul 19, 2019 |
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BONUS AMA! Romeo and Juliet
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Jul 12, 2019 |
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Season Three Episode Seven: Duality in Jekyll and Hyde
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Jul 05, 2019 |
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Season Three Episode Six: Doctor Jekyll
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Jun 28, 2019 |
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Season Three Episode Five: Gentlemen, Sexuality and Utterson
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Jun 21, 2019 |
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Season Three Episode Four: Mr Hyde
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Jun 14, 2019 |
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Season Three Episode Three: The Plot of 'Jekyll and Hyde'
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Jun 08, 2019 |
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Season Three Episode Two: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Jun 02, 2019 |
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Season Three Episode One: Victorian London
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May 29, 2019 |
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Season Two Episode Fifteen: Reactions and Responses to Romeo and Juliet
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May 15, 2019 |
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Season Two Episode Fourteen: Friar Lawrence and the Nurse
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May 14, 2019 |
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Season Two Episode Thirteen: Juliet and Her Family
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May 12, 2019 |
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Season Two Episode Twelve: The Bad Boys of Verona (Romeo, Tybalt and Mercutio)
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May 10, 2019 |
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Season Two Episode Eleven: Love in Romeo and Juliet
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May 08, 2019 |
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Season Two Episode Ten: Violence in Romeo and Juliet
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May 06, 2019 |
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Season Two Episode Nine: The plot of Romeo and Juliet
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May 03, 2019 |
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Season Two Episode Eight: The background to Romeo and Juliet
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May 02, 2019 |
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Season Two Episode Seven: Reactions, Audience and Tragedy
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Apr 27, 2019 |
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Season Two Episode Six: Lady Macbeth
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Apr 25, 2019 |
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BONUS EPISODE: What's the point of studying Shakespeare?
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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Season Two Episode Five: Macbeth and his Masculinity
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Apr 19, 2019 |
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Season Two Episode Three: What happens in Macbeth>?
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Apr 13, 2019 |
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Season Two Episode Four: Themes and Images in Macbeth
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Apr 13, 2019 |
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Season Two Episode Two: Shakespeare's Macbeth
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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Season Two, Episode One: James I and the Witch Trials
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Apr 05, 2019 |
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Season One, Episode Twenty Five: Climbing My Grandfather
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Mar 22, 2019 |
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Season One, Episode Twenty Four: Checking Out Me History
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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Season One, Episode Twenty Three: Letters from Yorkshire
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Mar 17, 2019 |
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Season One, Episode Twenty Two: Winter Swans
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Mar 15, 2019 |
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Season One, Episode Twenty One: Simon Armitage Double Bill feat. 'Mother Any Distance' and 'Remains'
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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Season One, Episode Twenty: Tissue
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Mar 10, 2019 |
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Season One, Episode Nineteen: Eden Rock
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Mar 08, 2019 |
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Season One, Episode Eighteen: Emigree
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Mar 06, 2019 |
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Season One,Episode Seventeen: Kamikaze
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Mar 05, 2019 |
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Season One, Episode Sixteen: Walking Away
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Mar 04, 2019 |
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Season One, Episode Fifteen: Seamus Heaney Double Bill feat 'Follower' and 'Storm on the Island'
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Mar 01, 2019 |
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Season One, Episode Fourteen: Singh Song
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Feb 27, 2019 |
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Season One, Episode Thirteen: Carol Ann Duffy Double feat. Before You Were Mine and War Photographer
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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Season One, Episode Twelve: Farmer's Bride
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Feb 23, 2019 |
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Season One, Episode Eleven: Bayonet Charge
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Feb 20, 2019 |
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Season One, Episode Ten: Neutral Tones
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Feb 19, 2019 |
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Season One, Episode Nine: Sonnet 29 (I think of thee)
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Feb 12, 2019 |
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Season One, Episode Eight: The Prelude
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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Season One, Episode Seven: Robert Browning double bill feat. Porphyria's Lover and My Last Duchess
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Feb 09, 2019 |
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Season One, Episode Six: London
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Feb 06, 2019 |
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Season One, Episode Five: When We Two Parted
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Feb 04, 2019 |
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Season One, Episode Four: Love's Philosophy
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Feb 03, 2019 |
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BONUS: I try and impress a boy with 'Love's Philosophy'
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Feb 03, 2019 |
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Season One, Episode 3: Ozymandias
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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Season One, Episode Two: Exposure
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Jan 31, 2019 |
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Season One, Episode One: The Charge of the Light Brigade
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Jan 30, 2019 |