This week, a new life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the fourteenth-century poet who is regarded as a father of English literature, though that’s a stereotype my guest, Marion Turner, wants to… Read More
Marion Turner on Chaucer: A European Life
Category: biography
Gail Orgelfinger on the afterlife of Joan of Arc
This week the Hedgehog and the Fox explore four centuries in the afterlife of Joan of Arc. Our guest, Gail Orgelfinger, is a medievalist by training and a founding member… Read More
Bradley Stephens: Victor Hugo video
Bradley Stephens introduces Victor Hugo from George Miller on Vimeo.
Griselda Pollock introduces Charlotte Salomon
Griselda Pollock: Charlotte Salomon’s theatre of memory
This week’s podcast is a conversation with Griselda Pollock about her recent book, Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory. Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of… Read More
James Serpell: Dogs as the animal kingdom’s ambassadors
I was lucky enough to have the chance to talk to James Serpell earlier this year about the new edition of his book, The Domestic Dog: Its Evolution, Behavior… Read More
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst on the young Dickens
Here is another freshly re-edited recording from my archive. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst’s biography of the first three decades of Dickens’ life, published by Harvard University Press, is a terrifically readable, refreshing… Read More
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst: Becoming Dickens
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst on Becoming Dickens from George Miller on Vimeo.