S3E9 Today, Ash is joined by special guest Michael Smith to talk about the alliterative Morte Arthur, a long poem composed in the 14th century. Michael is completing a new tranlsation of the poem, and so we’re very lucky to have him share some insights into the Alliterative’s Arthur’s provenance, it’s original readership, the joy of alliterative verse and its connections to other medieval Arthurian works such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Join us tomorrow for an extended chat about Michael...
Jun 26, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Season 3Ep. 9
S3E8 And so we march on through the bingo hall of death and dullness. This week features talk about James Patterson's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, an overly elaborate DUI and a whole lot of zero, zip, nada. Title Music: 'Not Drunk' by The Joy Drops. All other music by Epidemic Sound. www.patreon.com/earreadthis @earreadthis [email protected] facebook.com/earreadthis
Jun 18, 2020•46 min•Season 3Ep. 8
S3E7 Today, Christopher Marlowe takes us back to Elizabethan theatre! We’re going to be spending quite a lot of time with the Plantagenet Kings of England, and today we meet our first family member, Edward II. Tune in to find out about the real Edward, Marlowe’s inspiration and sources, and how the play has been received critically over the centuries. Title Music: 'Not Drunk' by The Joy Drops. Sound Bite: Edward II (1991). All other music by Epidemic Sound. www.patreon.com/earreadthis @earreadth...
Jun 05, 2020•46 min•Season 3Ep. 7
S3E6 The James Patterson Bingo experiment continues and the horror is setting in. Title Music: 'Not Drunk' by The Joy Drops. All other music by Epidemic Sound. www.patreon.com/earreadthis @earreadthis [email protected] facebook.com/earreadthis
Jun 03, 2020•33 min•Season 3Ep. 6
S3E5 Or as James Patterson might call it: "The Seventh Episode". Title Music: 'Not Drunk' by The Joy Drops. All other music by Epidemic Sound. www.patreon.com/earreadthis @earreadthis [email protected] facebook.com/earreadthis
May 22, 2020•45 min•Season 3Ep. 5
S3E4 Our historical tour gets underway in earnest as Adam and Ash park the time machine in the 12th Century in order to hear a young wizard called Merlin deliver his famous prophecies. Title Music: 'Not Drunk' by The Joy Drops. All other music by Epidemic Sound. Sound Bite from: Merlin (1998) www.patreon.com/earreadthis @earreadthis [email protected] facebook.com/earreadthis
May 22, 2020•32 min•Season 3Ep. 4
S3E3 New kind of episode today as Adam and Ash watch a tonne of clips from Jekyll and Hyde movies, each depicting a transformation scene of some kind, beginning with the silent movies of the 1910's and ending in the modern day. Apologies - we lost Adam's mic sometime in the 1990's, and funnily enough from then on he sounds as if he was calling from around then. Title Music: 'Not Drunk' by The Joy Drops. Sound Bites from: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913), Dr. Jekyll ...
May 22, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 3Ep. 3
S3E2 A bumper package of Patterson for you today: we've got a info dump courtesy of a helpful newspaper clipping, then basically a load of cocks, balls and tiny wads. Title Music: 'Not Drunk' by The Joy Drops. All other music by Epidemic Sound. www.patreon.com/earreadthis @earreadthis [email protected] facebook.com/earreadthis
May 22, 2020•56 min•Season 3Ep. 2
S3E1 Adam and Ash kick off their historical series by climbing into a time machine. Here be Morlocks. Title Music: 'Not Drunk' by The Joy Drops. Sound Bites from: The Time Machine (1960) All other music by Epidemic Sound. www.patreon.com/earreadthis @earreadthis [email protected] facebook.com/earreadthis
May 22, 2020•35 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Or should that be Foulest? You decide. Title Music: 'Not Drunk' by The Joy Drops. www.patreon.com/earreadthis @earreadthis [email protected] facebook.com/earreadthis
May 06, 2020•51 min•Ep. 47
S2E46 Today, to round out series 2 of Ear Read This, we're finally talking (relevantly) about The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. Join us as we discuss the birth of Los Angeles, koshing, wisecracking and the publishing world of 1930's America. Title Music: 'Not Drunk' by The Joy Drops. Sound Bites from: The Big Sleep (1946) All other music by Epidemic Sound. www.patreon.com/earreadthis @earreadthis [email protected] facebook.com/earreadthis...
May 01, 2020•30 min•Season 2Ep. 46
S2E45 Another three chapters down. But at what cost? This week features a lot of walking, some rhyming and one of us has a breakdown. Title Music: 'Not Drunk' by The Joy Drops. All other music by Epidemic Sound. www.patreon.com/earreadthis @earreadthis [email protected] facebook.com/earreadthis
Apr 25, 2020•32 min•Season 2Ep. 45
S2E44 Today I'm thrilled to be talking about Hunter S. Thompson again, and doubly thrilled to be joined by Caleb James of the Drunken Pen Writing Podcast to do so. You can check out Caleb's podcast at www.drunkenpenwriting.com Title Music: 'Not Drunk' by The Joy Drops. Sound Bites from: 'Hunter S. Thompson Meets A Hell's Angel' (CBC, 1967) 'Omnibus' (1978), 'Charlie Rose' (1998) All other music by Epidemic Sound. www.patreon.com/earreadthis @earreadthis [email protected] facebook.com/earread...
Apr 24, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Season 2Ep. 44
S2E43 Not, as referenced, "a new series" - we thought we'd drop this one a bit sooner as it was recorded in earlier, happier times and sounds more dated by the day. Doesn't stop it being a non-stop thrill-less ride of baffling blandness from the master. Title Music: 'Not Drunk' by The Joy Drops. All other music by Epidemic Sound. www.patreon.com/earreadthis @earreadthis [email protected] facebook.com/earreadthis
Apr 20, 2020•41 min•Season 2Ep. 43
S2E42 A poem for isolation? Today's episode looks at a single poem from Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses and examines the incongruous conditions in which he composed his arcadian songs. Title Music: 'Not Drunk' by The Joy Drops. All other music by Epidemic Sound. Sound Bite from Jane Eyre (2006) www.patreon.com/earreadthis @earreadthis [email protected] facebook.com/earreadthis
Apr 20, 2020•29 min•Season 2Ep. 42
S2E41 Believe it or not, Adam is STILL trying to fight his way off Fire Island. Waiting in store for him today are Trolls, Shamans and lizard therapy advice from agony aunt and special guest star Lucille D'Flapignon. Title Music: "Not Drunk" by the Joy Drops. All other music by Epidemic Sound. www.patreon.com/earreadthis @earreadthis [email protected] facebook.com/earreadthis
Apr 16, 2020•32 min•Season 2Ep. 41
S2E40 Today we're back in La Mancha. Part II of Cervantes' masterpiece sees Quixote adapting to his own fame, and reconciling himself with plagiarism, doubt and death. Title Music: 'Not Drunk' by The Joy Drops. All other music by Epidemic Sound. Sound Bites from Man of La Mancha (1972) www.patreon.com/earreadthis @earreadthis [email protected] facebook.com/earreadthis
Apr 16, 2020•43 min•Season 2Ep. 40
S2E39 Shocking shootings, candid chins and like that. Title Music: 'Not Drunk' by The Joy Drops. All other music by Epidemic Sound. www.patreon.com/earreadthis @earreadthis [email protected] facebook.com/earreadthis
Apr 14, 2020•24 min•Season 2Ep. 39
S2E38 Another three chapters of Xmas Ladies Kill Squad get analysed by Ash and Adam. Title Music: 'Not Drunk' by The Joy Drops. All other music by Epidemic Sound. www.patreon.com/earreadthis @earreadthis [email protected] facebook.com/earreadthis
Mar 14, 2020•34 min•Season 2Ep. 38
S2E37 Our fiftieth episode starts with a bit of explaining a recent pod-tragedy, after which we get stuck into Part I of Don Quixote. Today's episode explores the origin of the man from La Mancha's madness, the role of Sancho Panza and the fate of Shakespeare's lost play, Cardenio. Title Music: 'Not Drunk' by The Joy Drops. All other music by Epidemic Sound. Sound Bites from The Trip (2010), The Adventures of Don Quixote (1933) and Sharpe's Sword (1995) www.patreon.com/earreadthis @earreadthis e...
Mar 11, 2020•40 min•Season 2Ep. 37
S2E36 Simon Armitage responds to criticism the only way he knows how. A thrilling script from Richard Woof sees the boys dealing with fruity dames and hot weather, and a quiz in the form of a murder mystery... Music: 'Not Drunk' by The Joy Drops, 'Mystery Sax' by Kevin MacLeod www.patreon.com/earreadthis @earreadthis [email protected] facebook.com/earreadthis
Feb 21, 2020•25 min•Season 2Ep. 36
S2E35 Today Ash talks about the second story in Ovid's Metamophoses - the story of the four ages of mankind. At first the world was Golden (and veggie). Then came the Silver Age, the Brazen age and finally the age of Iron. Ovid's the original, but since this is a Latin-free podcast, Ash relies heavily on the translations of Ted Hughes, Arthur Golding and in particular for today's episode, John Dryden. Intro: The Invisible Man Returns (1940) Music: 'Not Drunk' by The Joy Drops, 'Land on the Golde...
Feb 21, 2020•30 min•Season 2Ep. 35
S2E34 Today we observe an Ear Read This Christmas tradition: talking about James Patterson. We're taking his latest (by the time you finish reading this sentence it won't be his latest anymore), 19th Christmas and using it to play bingo. www.patreon.com/earreadthis @earreadthis [email protected] facebook.com/earreadthis
Dec 16, 2019•53 min•Season 2Ep. 34
S2E33 Warm up in festive style with a third visit to Fire Island. Christmas songs, slave dwarfs, and BDSLM: Bondage and Domination of Snakes, Lizards and Marine Iguana. www.patreon.com/earreadthis @earreadthis [email protected] facebook.com/earreadthis
Dec 12, 2019•42 min•Season 2Ep. 33
S2E32 Today we've got a classic of the hardboiled detective genre, stuffed with husky dames, fat masterminds, and at the centre of it all a scowling anti-hero, the pleasant blond satan, Sam Spade. Dashiell Hammett's novel gets us talking about the differences between English and American crime fiction, nomenclature and inevitably, Raymond Chandler. Intro: Humphrey Bogart and Sydney Greenstreet in The Maltese Falcon (1941) Outro: 'The Maltese Falcon' by Adolph Deutsch www.patreon.com/earreadthis ...
Dec 07, 2019•38 min•Season 2Ep. 32
S2E31 Wilfred Owen made a cameo appearance in our last episode, and today we look at him in detail. We discuss his war service, his attitude to life in the trenches, and analyse his strange, unsettling poem, 'Spring Offensive'. Intro: 'Send Me Away With A Smile' by John McCormack Outro: 'Build Me Up Buttercup' by The Foundations www.patreon.com/earreadthis @earreadthis [email protected] facebook.com/earreadthis
Dec 02, 2019•55 min•Season 2Ep. 31
S2E30 Pat Barker's Regeneration is set in Craiglockhart Hospital bewteen the months of July and November, 1917. Among the patients are the war poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. On today's episode, we talk about Edinburgh's role in WWI, the problem of real-life characters in historical fiction and the poetry of the First World War. Intro: Pat Barker on BBC World Book Club (06/11/14) Outro: 'God Moves in a Mysterious Way' by William Cowper www.patreon.com/earreadthis @earreadthis earreadth...
Nov 27, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 30
S2E29 It's the return to Fire Island. www.patreon.com/earreadthis @earreadthis [email protected] facebook.com/earreadthis...
Nov 08, 2019•48 min•Season 2Ep. 29
S2E28 It's that man again! Today, instead of giving us a tour around his hometown of Edinburgh, Robert Louis Stevenson provides us with one of the most famous horror stories of all time: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Everyone knows the twist, but did you know you're pronouncing the title wrong? Intro: Spencer Tracey in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) Outro: '(I was) Jekyll Jekyll Hyde' from 'Arthur's Almost Live Not Real Music Festival', Arthur (1998) www.patreon.com/earreadthis @earre...
Nov 05, 2019•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 28
S2E27 T.C. Boyle's Water Music is a riotous debut novel, featuring real life Scottish explorer Mungo Park. Today we talk about the merits of excess, going up the jungle in a boat, 18th Century novels, and Anaconda(s). Intro: 'Water Music, Suite No.1' by George Frideric Handel Outro: 'Cool Water' by Vaughn Monroe www.patreon.com/earreadthis @earreadthis [email protected] facebook.com/earreadthis...
Oct 27, 2019•35 min•Season 2Ep. 27
