Podcasts

This is a new project at CELL, aimed at facilitating distance-based and alternative methods of learning. We are grateful to the Queen Mary E-Learning Fellowship Scheme for funding this project. Watch this space for future releases!

You can subscribe to the CELL podcasts either by visiting our page on the iTunes Music Store, or by copying and pasting the URL of the podcast feed: http://www.livesandletters.ac.uk/podcasts/feed into your chosen podcast application.

To find out more about individual podcasts, and to download them directly, visit the pages below.

PodcastA Walking Tour of Milton's Cottage

Posted July 1st, 2010 by Dr Robyn Adams

Click to download 32:58 minutes (17.62 MB)

As part of the series celebrating 400 years since Milton's birth, Rosanna Cox takes us on a journey to Milton's Cottage in Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire. Milton spent several years in this rural idyll after the Civil War, and it is here that he pondered the workings of Paradise Regained.

PodcastYour History with Stephen Fry and Lisa Jardine

Posted December 8th, 2009 by Dr Robyn Adams

Click to download 84:21 minutes (39.5 MB)

The final HarperCollins-sponsored History Lecture was held at the RIBA on the evening of 11 November 2009.
In conversation with Lisa Jardine, Stephen Fry explored diverse aspects of general and personal history, ranging from a discussion of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall to being stabbed by royalty in the Groucho Club.

PodcastMilton's Paradise Lost: Lecture I

Posted October 19th, 2009 by Dr Robyn Adams

Click to download 42:33 minutes (20.78 MB)

Rosanna Cox leads the listener through an examination of John Milton's epic poem, discussing themes of liberty, civic activity and methods of reading. This lecture was first delivered by Dr Cox at the University of Kent in Spring 2009, and is a companion to Milton's Paradise Lost: Lecture II.

PodcastOut of the Closet: Love, Power and Houses in Eighteenth Century England, a lecture by Amanda Vickery

Posted December 12th, 2008 by Dr Robyn Adams

Click to download 51:56 minutes (23.56 MB)

The 2008 HarperCollins History Lecture saw Dr Amanda Vickery (Royal Holloway) deliver a tantalizing glimpse of early modern domesticity. Listen as Amanda explores ideas of taste, furnishings (including chintz) and hierarchy against a thrilling backdrop of eighteenth-century romping and dirty linen.

PodcastMuffled Voices: Mary Powell, silent wife of Milton

Posted February 28th, 2008 by Dr Robyn Adams

Click to download 20:08 minutes (9.07 MB)

Rosanna Cox explores Milton's 1643 text 'The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce' in an attempt to question Milton's biographical stimulus and his own biographers. Critics have traditionally relegated Mary Powell to the role of 'unfit wife' based on her 'absent presence' around the margins of his famous divorce tracts.