Great Books Podcast

Welcome to the 2023 Ramsay – Campion Great Books Podcast Series. “If Music be the food of love, play on…” We turn finally to Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (or What You Will ), a romantic comedy with tragic undertones, about the glories and vagaries of love, mistaken identity, fulfillment and loss. In this podcast Dr Stephen McInerney, Director of the Centre for the Study of the Western Tradition at...

Welcome to the 2023 Ramsay – Campion Great Books Podcast Series. “If Music be the food of love, play on…” We turn now to Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (or What You Will ), a romantic comedy with tragic undertones, about the glories and vagaries of love, mistaken identity, fulfillment and loss. In this podcast Dr Stephen McInerney, Director of the Centre for the Study of the Western Tradition at Camp...

Welcome to the 2023 Ramsay – Campion Great Books Podcast Series. We continue our discussion on Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Julius Caesar, the story of Julius Caesar’s downfall, the demise of his assassins and the rise of Mark Antony. In this podcast Dr Stephen McInerney, Director of the Centre for the Study of the Western Tradition at Campion College is joined by Dr Colin Dray, Lecturer in Literature...

Welcome to the 2023 Ramsay – Campion Great Books Podcast Series. We turn now to Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Julius Caesar, the story of Julius Caesar’s downfall, the demise of his assassins and the rise of Mark Antony. In this podcast Dr Stephen McInerney, Director of the Centre for the Study of the Western Tradition at Campion College is joined by Dr Colin Dray, Lecturer in Literature at Campion Col...

Welcome to the 2023 Ramsay – Campion Great Books Podcast Series. The series continues with the second of two conversations on Shakespeare’s Othello – the story of a general who kills his wife, having become convinced of her infidelity, only to realise he’s made a terrible mistake. In this podcast Dr Stephen McInerney, Director of the Centre for the Study of the Western Tradition at Campion College...

Welcome to the 2023 Ramsay – Campion Great Books Podcast Series. The series continues with the first of two conversations on Shakespeare’s Othello, the story of a general who, under the influence of the villain Iago, becomes convinced that his wife has been unfaithful to him and so murders her, only to realise he’s made a terrible mistake. In this podcast Dr Stephen McInerney, Director of the Cent...

Welcome to the 2023 Ramsay – Campion Great Books Podcast Series. The series continues with the second of two conversations on Shakespeare’s King Lear — the story of a King who divides his kingdom between two sinister daughters while disinheriting and disavowing the daughter who is most devoted to him. In this podcast Dr Stephen McInerney, Director of the Centre for the Study of the Western Traditi...

Welcome to the 2023 Ramsay – Campion Great Books Podcast Series.  The series commences with the first of two conversations on Shakespeare’s King Lear – the story of a King who abdicates his throne and divides his kingdom between his two oldest daughters while disavowing his most devoted daughter, Cordelia. In this podcast Dr Stephen McInerney, Director of the Centre for the Study of the Western Tr...

Welcome to the 2022 Ramsay-Campion Great Books Podcast Series. Our series on the Greeks concludes as we move from History to Philosophy in the form of one of Plato’s best known dialogues, Symposium, a remarkable exploration on a perennially important topic in the Western tradition – Love: its nature, meaning, purpose, and often confusing complexities.  In this sixth podcast Dr Stephen McInerney is...

Welcome to the 2022 Ramsay-Campion Great Books Podcast Series. The series on the Greeks continues as we turn from Homeric epic and Sophoclean tragedy to Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, a work that not only helps establish the contours of a new literary genre, the History, but in doing so becomes one of the most influential works of political theory in the Western canon.  In this fift...

Welcome to the 2022 Ramsay-Campion Great Books Podcast Series. In this podcast we turn our attention to the fifth century and to Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone, one of the Theban plays, which picks up the story of the family of Oedipus, the late King of Thebes, just after the civil war between his sons, Eteocles and Polynices, and opens with the two surviving members of Oedipus’s family, Antigone and...

Welcome to the 2022 Ramsay -Campion Great Books Podcast Series. The series on the Greeks continues with the second of three podcasts on Homer’s Odyssey . In the first episode the presenters discussed Books 1-4, sometimes known as the Telemachy. In this episode the discussion turns to Books 5-12, which focuses on the adventures of Odysseus prior to his return home to Ithaca. In this second podcast...

Welcome to the 2022 Ramsay -Campion Great Books Podcast Series. The series on the Greeks continues with the third and final podcast on Homer’s Odyssey . In the second podcast the presenters focused on Books 5-12.  In this episode they turn their attention to the second half of the poem covered in Books 13-24. In this third podcast Dr Stephen McInerney, Director of the Centre for the Study of the W...

Welcome to the 2022 Ramsay -Campion Great Books Podcast Series. The series commences with the first of three conversations on Homer’s Odyssey – the story of a complicated man, a hero of the Trojan war, the ruler of Ithaca, and his attempts to get home.  In this first podcast Dr Stephen McInerney, Director of the Centre for the Study of the Western Tradition at Campion College is joined by Dr Colin...