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Conversations in Philosophy: 'To the Lighthouse' by Virginia Woolf	Close Readings	18:58
Novel Approaches: ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’ by Thomas Hardy	Close Readings	13:39
Next Year on Close Readings: Realism, Nature, Narrative Poems and a history of London	Close Readings	16:41
Love and Death: Thom Gunn and Paul Muldoon	Close Readings	17:36
Fiction and the Fantastic: Two Novels by Ursula K. Le Guin	Close Readings	14:03
Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Sovereignty of Good' by Iris Murdoch	Close Readings	13:55
Novel Approaches: ‘Kidnapped’ by Robert Louis Stevenson	Close Readings	17:06
Love and Death: Elegies for Poets by Auden, Arnold and Schuyler	Close Readings	15:01
Fiction and the Fantastic: J.G. Ballard and Angela Carter	Close Readings	14:59
Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Fall' by Albert Camus	Close Readings	15:49
Novel Approaches: ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ by Henry James	Close Readings	14:38
Love and Death: 'Surge' by Jay Bernard and 'In Nearby Bushes' by Kei Miller	Close Readings	16:07
Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘The Hearing Trumpet’ by Leonora Carrington	Close Readings	16:31
Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Ethics of Ambiguity' by Simone de Beauvoir	Close Readings	15:44
Novel Approaches: ‘The Last Chronicle of Barset’ by Anthony Trollope	Close Readings	17:07
Love and Death: ‘Poems of 1912-13’ by Thomas Hardy	Close Readings	14:13
Fiction and the Fantastic: Stories by Jorge Luis Borges	Close Readings	13:55
Conversations in Philosophy: 'Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions' by Jean-Paul Sartre	Close Readings	16:07
Novel Approaches: 'Our Mutual Friend' by Charles Dickens	Close Readings	18:12
Love and Death: Family Elegies by Wordsworth, Lowell, Riley and Carson	Close Readings	14:32
Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Shelley	Close Readings	33:15
Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Thing' by Martin Heidegger	Close Readings	16:16
Novel Approaches: ‘The Mill on the Floss’ by George Eliot	Close Readings	17:34
Love and Death: War Elegies by Whitman, Owen, Douglas and more	Close Readings	12:54
Fiction and the Fantastic: Mikhail Bulgakov and James Hogg	Close Readings	32:58
Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Will to Believe' by William James	Close Readings	18:14
Novel Approaches: 'Aurora Leigh' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Close Readings	18:40
Love and Death: 'In Memoriam' by Tennyson	Close Readings	13:13
Fiction and the Fantastic: Tales by Jan Potocki and Isak Dinesen	Close Readings	15:50
Conversations in Philosophy: 'Schopenhauer as Educator' by Friedrich Nietzsche	Close Readings	30:26
Novel Approaches: ‘North and South’ by Elizabeth Gaskell	Close Readings	25:49
Love and Death: Self-Elegies by Plath, Larkin, Hardy and more	Close Readings	14:50
Fiction and the Fantastic: Stories by Franz Kafka	Close Readings	16:51
Conversations in Philosophy: 'My Station and Its Duties' by F.H. Bradley	Close Readings	15:29
Novel Approaches: 'Vanity Fair' by William Makepeace Thackeray	Close Readings	33:37
Love and Death: Elegies for Poets by Berryman, Lowell and Bishop	Close Readings	12:56
Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘Alice in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll	Close Readings	16:26
Conversations in Philosophy: 'Autobiography' by John Stuart Mill	Close Readings	14:58
Novel Approaches: ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Brontë	Close Readings	27:23
Love and Death: ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ by Thomas Gray	Close Readings	16:06

Conversations in Philosophy: 'To the Lighthouse' by Virginia Woolf

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18:58

Novel Approaches: ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’ by Thomas Hardy

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13:39

Next Year on Close Readings: Realism, Nature, Narrative Poems and a history of London

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16:41

Love and Death: Thom Gunn and Paul Muldoon

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17:36