Τα καλύτερα Kenneth Grahame podcast (2024)

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Ep 676 - The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame 1:03:23

3d ago1:03:23

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The Wind in the Willows is a classic novel for young readers. But, uh, why? Is it the animals that are basically just Edwardian gentlemen? Is it the deep longing for a nostalgic pastoral past? Is it the friend who is addicted to cars?! Surely, these are all universal childhood experiences. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therap…

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Kenneth Grahame's "A Song of Mr. Toad" 4:22

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Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) is best remembered for the classic of children's literature The Wind in the Willows (1908). Scottish by birth, he spent most of his childhood with his grandmother in England, following the death of his mother and his father's inability to look after the children. After attending St Edward's School in Oxf…

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Sylvia Plath's "Gold Mouths Cry" 10:43

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In today’s poem, Plath (who died at 30) contrasts the transience of youth and nature with the seeming permanence of art and artifice. (I even make time for a brief shout-out to a not-so-transitory Golden Mouth.) Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe…

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from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Hiawatha's Wooing" 6:26

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Today’s poem is a selection from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s American epic, The Song of Hiawatha. The passage is structured beautifully so that two divergent streams of imaginative thought suddenly flow together into a single, tangible reality. Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe…

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Charles Wolfe's "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna" 5:54

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Today's poem is an enduring memorial for a hastily interred hero. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeΑπό τον Sean Johnson

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "A Common Inference" 6:44

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) wrote fiction and nonfiction works including several collections of poetry and her most famous short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892). Her poems address the issues of women’s suffrage and the injustices of women’s lives. She was also the author of Women and Economics (1898), Concerning Children (1900), The H…

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Robert Morgan's "Bellrope" 9:12

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“The line through the hole in the dark…trembling/with its high connections.” Robert Morgan (born 1944) is an American poet, short story writer, non-fiction author, biographer, and novelist. He studied at North Carolina State University as an engineering and mathematics major, transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an Engl…

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Gwendolyn Brooks' "First fight. Then fiddle." 8:54

9d ago8:54

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Today’s poem is about politics (but this, too, shall pass). Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeΑπό τον Sean Johnson

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Thomas Hardy's "The Shadow on the Stone" 12:01

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Today’s poem is a reluctant reckoning with the present absence created by grief. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeΑπό τον Sean Johnson

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Ep 675 - The Kid Who Ran For President, by Dan Gutman 1:46:17

10d ago1:46:17

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It's election season here in the US (please go vote if you're reading this on November 4th or 5th)! And to uh "celebrate" we have chosen to put together a one-hour-and-forty-five-minute episode on Dan Gutman's 1996 book The Kid Who Ran For President, a book that is pretty wild and only made wilder by Scholastic's characteristic late-00s-early-10s s…

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Luci Shaw's "Judas, Peter" 6:54

12d ago6:54

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Luci Shaw was born in 1928 in London, England, and has lived in Canada, Australia and the U.S.A. A graduate of Wheaton College, she became co-founder and later president of Harold Shaw Publishers, and since 1988 has been a Writer in Residence at Regent College, Vancouver, Canada. Shaw has lectured in North America and abroad on topics such as art a…

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Jonathan Swift's "A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed" 4:15

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In today’s poem, while everyone else is dressing up to become something terrible, the acerbic Jonathan Swift gives us a domestic horror story in reverse. Happy reading. Anglo-Irish poet, satirist, essayist, and political pamphleteer Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland. He spent much of his early adult life in England before returning to Dubl…

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Kenn Nesbitt's "Halloween Party" 3:07

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Today’s poem is the stuff real nightmares are made of. Happy reading. Nesbitt’s poetry for children is “irrepressible, unpredictable, and raucously popular,” in the words of former Children’s Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis. Nesbitt’s poems frequently deal with humorous, relatable situations that verge on the madcap. He is the author of numerous boo…

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William Shakespeare's "Advice to Laertes" (from Hamlet I.3) 4:18

15d ago4:18

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Today’s poem is some of the greatest ironic advice ever offered on the stage–do as Polonius says, not as he does, and you’ll be just fine. Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeΑπό τον Sean Johnson

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Bob Hicok's "O My Pa-Pa" 17:11

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Bob Hicok was born in 1960 in Michigan and worked for many years in the automotive die industry. A published poet long before he earned his MFA, Hicok is the author of several collections of poems, including The Legend of Light, winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry in 1995 and named a 1997 ALA Booklist Notable Book of the Year; Plus Shipping …

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Ep 674 - The Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris 1:08:17

17d ago1:08:17

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An FBI agent seeks counsel from an imprisoned serial killer on how to apprehend an active serial killer. That's the elevator pitch for the *delicious* thriller Silence of the Lambs, which (along with its hugely successful film adaptation) helped to establish a lot of tropes currently *baked* in to how we tell stories about terrible crimes (whether …

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J. R. R. Tolkien's "When winter first begins to bite" 7:15

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Today’s poem commemorates the Council of Elrond, testifies to the love (and fussiness) of hobbits, and even boasts a possible Shakespearean connection. Happy reading! Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeΑπό τον Sean Johnson

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Henry Taylor's "Somewhere Along the Way" 4:05

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Poet and translator Henry Taylor was born in Lincoln, Virginia on June 21, 1942. He earned a BA from the University of Virginia and an MA from Hollins University. Taylor’s many poetry collections include Crooked Run (2006); Understanding Fiction: Poems 1986-1996; The Flying Change (1985), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize; An Afternoon of Po…

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Amy Lowell's "Trades" 7:07

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Today’s poem is a particularly novel example of an ancient writerly tradition: writing about how hard it is to write. Happy reading. On February 9, 1874, Amy Lowell was born at Sevenels, a ten-acre family estate in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her family was Episcopalian, of old New England stock, and at the top of Boston society. Lowell was the young…

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Ep. 35: Jason Zweig on the Principles of Intelligent Investing and the Enduring Wisdom of Ben Graham 1:45:57

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I talk to Jason Zweig, a personal finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal and the editor of Benjamin Graham’s 'The Intelligent Investor'. Jason is also the author of 'Your Money and Your Brain', one of the first books to explore the neuroscience of investing, and 'The Devil’s Financial Dictionary', a satirical glossary of Wall Street. Join me…

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Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Heaven-Haven" 4:45

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Today’s poem, subtitled “a nun takes the veil,” is one of Hopkins’ earliest surviving works. Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeΑπό τον Sean Johnson

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Ernest Lawrence Thayer's "Casey at the Bat" 7:15

23d ago7:15

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Though its author remained otherwise undistinguished, today's poem–with all its ecstasy, agony, and irony–has become almost as essential to the American experience as baseball itself. Happy reading! Ernest Lawrence Thayer was born on August 14, 1863, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He graduated with a BA in philosophy from Harvard University in 1885, w…

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Ep 673 - I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson 1:03:08

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I Am Legend is a foundational block for a lot of modern zombie fiction (even though its monsters are technically vampires). But it's much less interested in the dog than the 2007 Will Smith adaptation. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/overdue and get on your way to being your best self. Our theme …

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Billy Collins' "Shoveling Snow With Buddha" 4:37

27d ago4:37

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Today’s poem is an appreciation of little things. Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeΑπό τον Sean Johnson

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James Whitcomb Riley's "When the Frost is on the Punkin" 4:57

27d ago4:57

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Today’s poem celebrates the crisp, cool days of early Autumn as the most hospitable season of the year. Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeΑπό τον Sean Johnson

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John Masefield's "Laugh and Be Merry" 8:03

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The world-wandering John Masefield waxes Solomonic in today’s poem. Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeΑπό τον Sean Johnson

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Donald Hall's "My Son, My Executioner" 6:19

29d ago6:19

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Today’s poem is for everyone who knows that children keep you young, but also know how old you feel while it’s happening. Hall, taken aback by the success of this poem, expressed some regret that he became “the fellow whose son strapped him into the electric chair,” explaining that its inspiration came from 2 a.m. bottle-feedings that he conducted …

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Sonnet: On Receiving a Letter Informing Me of the Birth of a Son" 10:11

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The title of today’s poem is a mouthful, but it is fittingly emblematic of the poet’s full heart. Happy reading! Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeΑπό τον Sean Johnson

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Ep 672 - Nothing but Blackened Teeth, by Cassandra Khaw 51:38

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Do you need a ghost story to tell? Maybe one about a bunch of friends who probably shouldn’t be friends anymore? Then Cassandra Khaw has you covered with this flashy little novella about yokai, spooky weddings, and releasing one’s inhibitions. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/overdue and get on yo…

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Ben Jonson's "On My First Sonne" 6:41

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Never have rhyming couplets been so full of pathos as in today’s poem, where they symbolize the bond between father and son, tragically cut short. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeΑπό τον Sean Johnson

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John Keats' "To Autumn" 4:09

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If pumpkin-spice-everything or the sea of puffy vests and Ugg boots at the cider stand are getting you down, let today’s poem remind you of all that is great about Autumn. Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeΑπό τον Sean Johnson

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David McCord's "Mr. Macklin's Jack O'Lantern" 6:21

1M ago6:21

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Today’s poem offers a folksy look at the subtleties of terror. Happy reading. David Thompson Watson McCord was born on December 15, 1897, in New York. A poet and fundraiser, McCord grew up in Portland, Oregon. He received both a BA and MA from Harvard University and briefly served in the military at the end of World War I. In 1922, McCord became as…

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Ogden Nash's "A Word to Husbands" 4:32

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Today’s poem offers a recipe for domestic bliss. Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeΑπό τον Sean Johnson

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Chapter 10 - The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 46:20

1M ago46:20

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Welcome to The Nodoff Cast, your weekly dose of relaxation and tranquility! Join host Michael Everhard as he narrates carefully selected public domain stories designed to help you unwind and drift off into a peaceful slumber. Key highlights: Relaxing bedtime stories for adults Weekly episodes to improve sleep quality Narrated by professional voiceo…

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Walter Savage Landor's "To Robert Browning" 7:20

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Though we remember Browning far more readily than we do Landor, this poem dates from a period when their fortunes were reversed and the latter was eager to acquaint the world with the budding talent he had discovered. Walter Savage Landor (30 January 1775 – 17 September 1864) was an English writer, poet, and activist. His best known works were the …

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Ep 666 - Tender Is The Flesh, by Augustina Bazterrica 1:00:49

1M ago1:00:49

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Spooktober 2024 is here! And we're opening this month's spooktacular with a book about a cannibal dystopia, where people eat other people and where maybe we draw some parallels between how Special Meat is treated and how real-world non-special meat is treated?? Also we deal with the spookiness of a protagonist who Sucks. This episode is also sponso…

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Sit Me Baby One More Time Episode 0 - The Baby-Sitters Club, an Introduction 39:16

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For this new show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew will be learning about the world of babysitting! We're going to read eight books in this seminal series, picking books where we meet new Club members. This episode is a free teaser for our Sit Me Baby One More Time longread project. Patreon supporters can get new episodes monthly (Episode 1 is up ri…

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J. R. R. Tolkien's "Mythopoeia" 13:56

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Today’s poem is a defense of myths and myth-making, inspired by an argument with C. S. Lewis. Happy reading! Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeΑπό τον Sean Johnson

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R. S. Thomas' "Poetry for Supper" 8:30

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Ronald Stuart Thomas (29 March 1913 – 25 September 2000), published as R. S. Thomas, was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest noted for nationalism, spirituality and dislike of the anglicisation of Wales. John Betjeman, introducing Song at the Year's Turning (1955), the first collection of Thomas's poetry from a major publisher, predicted that Thomas w…

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Dorothy Parker's "The Trifler" 4:47

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Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and writer of fiction, plays and screenplays based in New York; she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary works published in magazines, such as The New Yorker, and as a founding m…

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Louis Untermeyer's "A Man" 5:02

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Today’s poem offers a needful portrait of ‘manly talk.’ Happy reading. Louis Untermeyer was the author, editor or compiler, and translator of more than 100 books for readers of all ages. He will be best remembered as the prolific anthologist whose collections have introduced students to contemporary American poetry since 1919. The son of an establi…

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Chapter 9 - The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 50:16

1M ago50:16

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Welcome to The Nodoff Cast, your weekly dose of relaxation and tranquility! Join host Michael Everhard as he narrates carefully selected public domain stories designed to help you unwind and drift off into a peaceful slumber. Key highlights: Relaxing bedtime stories for adults Weekly episodes to improve sleep quality Narrated by professional voiceo…

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William Butler Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium" 14:30

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Today’s poem is one of the most-discussed pieces of twentieth-century verse and, love it or hate it, features one of literature’s best extended metaphors for eternal yearnings–the quest for the great and holy city. Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe…

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