A Gen Z Guide to The Best 19th Century Fiction | Sam Royer on Timeless Classics and Hidden Gems
* Sam's full list pasted below *Please help us continue having these discussions on Patreon, or follow us on other Podcast channels here: https://linktr.ee/solomon_smith1800s - Shank's Mare - Ikku Jippensha1810s - Frankenstein - Mary Shelley1820s - Ballads and Romances - Adam Mickiewicz1830s - Eugene Onegin.- Alexander Pushkin1840s - Courtesans and Opium - The Ignoramus of Yangzhou1850s - Moby Dick - Hermann Melville1860s - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll1870s - The Gaucho Martin Fierro - Jose Hernandez1880s - The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky1890s - Selected Writings - Leopoldo Lugones00:00 Introduction04:40 Apocalyptic American Culture06:26 How Sam Got into Reading09:19 1800s13:09 1810s16:09 1820s19:52 1830s23:40 1840s30:16 1850s33:17 1860s38:03 1870s42:11 1880s48:10 1890s
23 Oct 2026
How Canon Debates RUINED the Bible and Star Wars | The Dogmatism of Pop Culture Myths
Please help us continue having these discussions on Patreon, or follow us on other Podcast channels here: https://linktr.ee/solomon_smith00:00 Intro 03:52 What is Canon?05:38 Canon debates in Abrahamic Religions08:50 How this maps onto Star Wars (in depth)17:41 Lore, Doctrine, and Talmudic gloss19:06 Why does Canon matter so much? Ancient Greece24:17 The obsession with continuity and internal errors28:47 Pirate editions, off-brand intellectual property, Virgil, Dickens, and Cervantes33:30 True Canon exists in human imagination35:29 Adaptation: books to films - Tolkien’s obsession with Canon40:18 Tennyson and Milton - Jackson is to Tolkien what Virgil is to Homer what Christianity is to Judaism45:46 Liberty to contradict47:40 A chamber drama set on Kamino - gibberish words
16 Oct 2026
This Film Changed English History (Forever?) | Jarman & Christopher Marlowe
Theo Rollason joins Milo and Jack to discuss Queer Edward II, their new film built from thirty hours of unseen footage shot during the making of Derek Jarman’s Edward II, and to trace Jarman’s film back through Christopher Marlowe to the medieval king himself. Along the way: Jarman turns Renaissance history into Thatcher-era queer politics, Marlowe makes class more scandalous than homosexuality, Tilda Swinton transforms Isabella into a vampiric villain, Edward’s murder becomes entangled with AIDS and Jarman’s own mortality, Peter Greenaway attracts some professional jealousy, and a lost archive reveals the funny, chaotic, intimate reality of making one of British queer cinema’s defining films.00:00 – Introduction05:36 – Theo Rollason enters11:52 – What Makes a Derek Jarman Film?22:01 – How Jarman Reimagined Edward II29:23 – Gay Love and Gay History37:05 – Tilda Swinton: Queen of Thatcher45:36 – Marlowe and Jarman: Kindred Artists50:48 – Death & the AIDS Crisis58:38 – 30 Hours of Lost Edward II Footage1:03:50 – Derek Jarman vs Peter Greenaway1:09:45 – What was Jarman like on set?1:16:30 – Clip from Queer Edward II
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