
Great Books Podcast
Ready to dive into the great books of the West? Join us as academics from Campion College, the Ramsay Centre, its partners and affiliates explore the ‘best which has been thought and said’, from Homer to today.
Episodes
14 episodes
Ramsay – Campion Great Books Podcast: Episode 8 Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (or What You Will) – Part 2
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...
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35:58

Ramsay – Campion Great Books Podcast: Episode 7 Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (or What You Will) – Part 1
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...
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28:45

Ramsay – Campion Great Books Podcast: Episode 6 Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar – Part 2
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.I...
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31:33

Ramsay – Campion Great Books Podcast: Episode 5 Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar – Part 1
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 ...
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28:45

Ramsay – Campion Great Books Podcast: Episode 4 Shakespeare’s Othello – Part 2
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, on...
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31:35

Ramsay – Campion Great Books Podcast: Episode 3 Shakespeare’s Othello – Part 1
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 tha...
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34:19

Ramsay – Campion Great Books Podcast: Episode 2 Shakespeare’s King Lear – Part 2
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 disin...
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Ramsay – Campion Great Books Podcast: Episode 1 Shakespeare’s King Lear – Part 1
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 bet...
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38:43

Ramsay – Campion Great Books Podcast: Plato’s Symposium
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 perennia...
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59:41

Ramsay – Campion Great Books Podcast: Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian Wars
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 t...
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Ramsay – Campion Great Books Podcast: Sophocles' Antigone
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 Oed...
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47:20

Ramsay – Campion Great Books Podcast: Homer’s Odyssey Books 13-24
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 t...
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Ramsay – Campion Great Books Podcast: Homer’s Odyssey Books 5-12
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 Te...
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32:57

Ramsay – Campion Great Books Podcast: Homer’s Odyssey Books 1-4
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 atte...
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