A complete listing of all our podcasts, organised approximately by literary period. The most recently-produced podcasts are listed at the top of each section.
Classical
Anglo Saxon
- Cuthbert: A Not So Benevolent Saint
- Old English Riddles and the Dream of the Rood
- Victorian Vikings and the World of Saga Tourism
Medieval
- Albion: Change, Rebirth and Stagnancy in The Middle English Prose Brut Chronicle
- Alchemy, the Philosopher’s Stone, and the Holy Grail
- (S)he’s just not that into you: Resisting Love in Medieval Romance Literature
- Snake Women: Crafting Power in Medieval Origin Stories
- Registers of petition in the holograph manuscripts of Thomas Hoccleve
- Making music in the North-east: waits and minstrels around the region
- Corpus Christi Plays in Durham
- A Funny Kind of Devotion? Laughter in the Biblical Drama of Late Medieval Towns and Cities
- Worms, Stags, and Other Folk Performances
- Fellowship from Sir Gawain to Malory and the Rise of ‘Civic’ Culture
- Chivalric Identity in Medieval Romance: Colour and Clothing in Perceval
- The Werewolf’s Rational Soul in the Medieval Romance
- The Saracen ‘Other’ in Middle English Romance
Renaissance
- Shakespeare, Henry VIII, and the day the Globe burned down
- Catholic Recusants in Performance
- Monkey Besynesse: Patronage and Print, or the Ape and the Book
Enlightenment
Romantic
- The Gothic Theology of Frankenstein
- ‘Ghostly Language’: Wordsworth’s Ghosts and Spectral Subjectivity
- Percy Bysshe Shelley: Love, Hope, and Imagination
Victorian
- Fiction and the Victorian Vivisector
- Dickens’s Ghosts: An Altered Perspective
- Celebrating the Brontës
- Ghosts and Dickens
- Women, Science, and the Body in Mid-Victorian Literary Culture
- Text Within Text
- Vampires and Bodysnatchers
- Vampires and Poltergeists
- Hideous Repasts: from Varney the Vampyre to Hannibal the Cannibal
- Ghosting, Place, and Wuthering Heights
- Jane Eyre and Masculinity
- Dickensian Steampunk: Charles Dickens and His Overlooked Mudfog Papers
- Outrageously Modern! Avant-Garde Magazines that Shocked Britain 1884-1922
Modern
- The Stream of Consciousness in William Wordsworth and James Joyce
- The Poetry of W.B. Yeats
- An Evening with TS Eliot, by Dr Gareth Reeves and Dr Jason Harding
- (Re)searching Lafcadio Hearn
- When is Modernism?
- And All that Jazz: Popular Music as Narrative in The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night
- Masculinity, Mimicry and the Crisis of Agency in the Colonial Contact-zone: A Study of George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant”
- Fantasies of Childhood in Peter Pan
- The Great War in the Magazines
- Outrageously Modern! Avant-Garde Magazines that Shocked Britain 1884-1922
Post-War
- Margaret Thatcher and Pornography
- Breathing in Science Fiction
- ‘Your New Hospital for the Intellectuals’: The Literary Salon as an Alternative Space for War
- A Literary History of Chocolate
- Authorship and Hysterical Woman in Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat
- Vampires and Poltergeists
- Howling From the City Walls: Poetry and Counter-Culture in 1960s Newcastle
- ‘Such Terrifying Vistas of Reality’: Lunatic Landscapes in the Works of H. P. Lovecraft
- Airmen, Aeroplanes, and Aesthetics: Pilots in Irish War Poetry
- Hideous Repasts: from Varney the Vampyre to Hannibal the Cannibal
- Mirrors of Madness: Emotional Blindness, Narcissistic Doubling and Paranoia in Nabokov’s Lolita (1955) and Pale Fire (1962)
- New Podcast: Classical Music, Conflict, and Identity in the Contemporary Novel
- New Podcast: A Short History of Interactive Narratives, or Flow Fiction
Twenty-First Century
- Margaret Thatcher and Pornography
- The Pleasures and Challenges of Contemporary Literature
- A Conversation with Jane Smiley
- Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge
- The Decline of British Fiction
- Tics in the Theatre: The ‘Quiet Audience’ and the Neurodivergent Spectator
- The Coming Races: Eugenics in Utopian Literature
- The Contemporary Apocalyptic Imagination
- Breathing in Science Fiction
- Gillian Allnutt on a Life in Poetry
- Will Harris on Becoming a Poet
- Rachael Boast on the Language and Sound of Poetry
- JL Williams on the Origins of Her Poetry
- Polly Atkin on the Places of Her Poetry
- Andrew McMillan, ‘Coalfield Dementia’
- Paul Farley: An Audience with Durham Book Festival’s Poet Laureate 2014
- Sinéad Morrissey, Collier
- Helen Mort ‘The Circle’
- Lorna Goodison: Meet the Durham Book Festival Laureate 2012
- Michael O’Neill Reads from Gangs of Shadow
- Tom Pickard Reads from his Poetry
- Gareth Reeves Reads From His Poetry Collection, To Hell with Paradise
- John Clegg Reads From His Poetry Collection, Antler
- John Clegg and Gareth Reeves Discuss the Challenges of Researching and Writing Poetry
- An Intellectual Reflects on Brexit
- Why we don’t write poetry about Climate Change
- Contaminations: Literature and Climate Change
- How Literature Challenges Our Infatuation with Numbers
- How Literature Changes the Way We Think About Ageing
- Narrating Everyday British Life by Authors of Muslim Heritage, Then and Now
- Boy with Apple: The “Comfortable Uncanny” in the Films of Wes Anderson and Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Transgressing the Uncanny Valley: Cybersex and Android Incest
- The White Review: A Journal for Our Times
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