Exploring The Greats
Exploring The Greats is a podcast that encourages slow, intentional reading in an age of endless content and fractured attention. It bridges the gap between wanting to read and actually reading by providing structure, momentum, and encouragement to engage with important works. Each club is hosted by scholars and artists who are passionate about the text, spending weeks with a single book to unpack its language, ideas, and historical context. The show creates an intimate space to slow down, stimulate imaginations, and appreciate human creativity.
Episodes
Exploring Plato's Republic Episode 1: Passing Torches
This is Episode 1 of Exploring Plato's Republic. To access all following episodes, join the club at exploringthegreats.com
In this first episode, we begin Book One, introducing Plato's distinctive use of dialogue. Agnes and Tim explore the competing definitions of justice offered by Cephalus and Polemarchus, and discuss how Socrates challenges each. At the heart of the discussion are questions th
Exploring Shakespeare's Othello Episode 1: (Tush,) Never Tell Me
This is Episode 1 of Exploring Shakespeare's Othello. To access all following episodes, join the club at exploringthegreats.com
In this first episode, John and James set the stage, jumping into Othello’s opening scene and introducing themes that will echo throughout the text, including love, power, and race. They each draw on their unique perspectives as actor and Shakespeare scholar, reflecting
Exploring Moby-Dick Episode 1: Setting Sail
This is Episode 1 of Exploring Moby-Dick with Rob Delaney and Hester Blum.
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In this first episode, Hester and Rob meet at 25 Craven Street in London, where Melville briefly lived in 1849, to kick off their exploration of Moby-Dick. Bonding over a shared obsession with the novel, they provide some context and summary before divin
Exploring Moby-Dick with Rob Delaney and Hester Blum
"It is not down on any map; true places never are."
Over 21 episodes, join Professor Hester Blum and Rob Delaney as they navigate Moby-Dick, the devastating and hilarious journey of men at odds with the sea and themselves.
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Exploring Shakespeare's Othello with James Shapiro and John Douglas Thompson
"O, now, for ever
Farewell the tranquil mind; farewell content."
Love, betrayal, regret: this is William Shakespeare's Othello. Join Professor James Shapiro and John Douglas Thompson as they examine this Shakespearean tragedy through literary and theatrical perspectives.
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Exploring The Odyssey with Mary Beard and Charlotte Higgins
Join Mary Beard and Charlotte Higgins as they deep dive into this greatest of all stories, sharing their lifetime’s enjoyment of it while putting it in context and unpicking the trickiest bits. The Odyssey, along with its sister text, The Iliad, is often considered the bedrock of western literature. In it are the seeds of the road movie, the family drama, fantasy fiction, the Western, and many mor
Exploring Plato's Republic with Agnes Callard and Tim Blake Nelson
What is justice? And how can societies achieve it? These are central questions in Plato's The Republic, a text that steadfastly questions the core tenets of liberalism. Join in dialogue with Professor Agnes Callard and Tim Blake Nelson for 24 episodes as they deconstruct Plato’s crowning achievement, and as a result, the structures and systems that make up human life.
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