New Literature History Podcasts

Twice-told Tales

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
What makes a good life? People in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were as concerned about living in an enriching and edifying way as we are now. Historian Leah Astbury, and French Literatur...

Light Pillars Podcast

1 episode - Latest episode: over 2 years ago
Light Pillars Podcast aims to bring knowledge closer to you. If you would like to widen your general knowledge but you don't have time to do your own research, this podcast is for you. Light Pillar...

CLEWS The World's Worst Femmes Fatales - Season One

13 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago
CLEWS is a library devoted to top-shelf, literary, culturally significant true crime stories from around the world. Our chairs rest at the intersection of history, journalism, law, and murder. Ever...

Dark Side of the Library

316 episodes - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Dark and gothic reads for goths, lovers of the macabre, horror fans, and the morbidly inclined. We bring you news about creepy and unsettling reads every Wednesday.

Objects Out Loud

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
From a magician who inspired Shakespeare, and poems woven into Japanese prints, to manuscripts illuminated with the ancient love story of Layla and Majnun, this new podcast series will delve into t...

Meet The Marquis!

4 episodes - Latest episode: over 3 years ago
Join Jislaaik Rockadopolis and Lance (mostly on the production side) in a year-long exploration of the Marquis de Sade--including in-depth discussions of his words and deeds, as well as the the int...

Celebrate Poe

253 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
This podcast is a deep dive into the life, times. works. and influences of Edgar Allan Poe - "America's Shakespeare." Mr. Poe comes to life in this weekly podcast!

Delve

14 episodes - Latest episode: over 3 years ago
Delve is a deep, detailed look at the landscape and culture of specific locations. By shining a light on the history and oral traditions (folk song, oral history, folklore and tale) of a place it s...

Eavesdropping on Arthurians

17 episodes - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Chats with experts around the world about Arthurian literature. (Image credit: British Library Additional 10294 f. 50v La Queste del Saint Graal (ff. 2-53); France, N. (Saint-Omer or Tournai); c. ...

Creativity & Persistence: Art that Fueled the Fight for Women’s Suffrage

28 episodes - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago
The National Endowment for the Arts created the Creativity and Persistence: Art that Fueled the Fight for Women’s Suffrage as part of the centennial celebration of passage of the 19th amendment. N...

Myth Dynamite

42 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago
Myth Dynamite is a labour of absolute and unequivocal love for ancient mythology. We - Abi and Sarah - met back in 2016 when we both decided to happily sacrifice another year of further study at th...

History of the Hunt

10 episodes - Latest episode: about 4 years ago
A podcast about the history of the hunting culture in America and beyond. Outdoor writer and historian Keith Crowley interviews experts and discusses prominent hunters, great outdoor writers, and t...

Question of the Day

462 episodes - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 127 ratings
Learn something new every day! Question of the Day, the award-winning interactive trivia game for Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant is now a daily podcast. For a few minutes each day, the Questio...

Moby Dick Energy: A Moby Dick Podcast

36 episodes - Latest episode: over 3 years ago
A chapter by chapter breakdown of the greatest, weirdest American novel, "Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale." Theme song by Noam Hassenfeld.

Tale of Tales

19 episodes - Latest episode: about 3 years ago
a monthly two-episode podcast exploring some of the most popular tales we tell and why we tell them

RADIO ACTION THEATER

14 episodes - Latest episode: about 4 years ago
Radio Action Theater, based in New York City and produced by Alabama writer and director Robert Clem, was broadcast on public radio in the U.S. and abroad from 1993 to 1998. The episodes feature p...

Sowing Wildean Oats

1 episode - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
A Podcast exploring the life, times, and acquaintances of Oscar Wilde.

Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett

20 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett’s finest work, described by Henry James as her “beautiful little quantum of achievement.” Despite James’s diminutives, the novel remains ...

Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series One by W. M. Flinders Petrie

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Brief, and in some cases incomplete, stories of magic from ancient Egypt.

King Henry IV by William Shakespeare

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 4 ratings
King Henry IV, Part 1 is the second of Shakespeare’s eight Wars of the Roses history plays, with events following those of King Richard II. As the play opens, King Henry IV (formerly Henry Bolingb...

King Richard II by William Shakespeare

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 1 rating
The Tragedy of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare, is the first of the history series that continues with Parts 1 and 2 of King Henry IV and with The Life of King Henry V. At the beginning of ...

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 8 ratings
Though it's titled The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, the man himself appears only in five scenes in the entire play! However, such is his impact on the events that surrounded him that he still remains ...

China and the Chinese by Herbert Allen Giles

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935) spent several years as a diplomat in China and in 1897 was appointed Cambridge University’s second professor of Chinese. His published works cover Chinese language a...

Diary of a U-boat Commander by Sir Stephen King-Hall

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
The infamous U boats deployed by Germany in the two World Wars have spawned several works of fiction and non-fiction. These deadly vessels were not just efficient and lethal killing machines, but t...

Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

90 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
First serialized from January to August, 1845, Twenty Years After is the second book in The D’Artagnan Romances, and follows the gallant adventures of the musketeers, as they are once again summone...

God's Country—And the Woman by James Oliver Curwood

27 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
James Curwood wrote many adventures of the far north. By 1909 he had saved enough money to travel to the Canadian northwest, a trip that provided the inspiration for his wilderness adventure storie...

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

28 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace chronicles the lives of five Russian aristocratic families during Napoleon's invasion of Russia. Many considered this book to be the best Russian work of literature of a...

Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini

31 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 5 ratings
An adventure novel with an unexpected hero, Captain Blood follows the unintended journey of chivalrous and well-educated gentleman Peter Blood, who without much choice was plunged into the world of...

The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott

32 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 2 ratings
The Talisman is a gripping tale set near the end of the Third Crusade. King Richard the Lionheart is grievously ill, and all around him the leaders from allied countries plot and scheme to gain per...

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

34 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Nearly 160 years after it was first published, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass continues to inspire, enthrall and educate generations of readers. This collection of poems serves as a vehicle for Whi...