Better than Shakespeare is a podcast dedicated to socialist theatre. Each week we discuss a different play relevant to socialist struggle in its aesthetic, historical, and theoretical context. There are also jokes. The core team is Andy Boyd and Danny Erickson, but we also have a rotating roster of stellar guests from the worlds of theatre and socialism and socialist theatre.
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Why do great novels, poems and plays move us and excite us? How can they change the way we look at ourselves and the world? What do these authors have to teach us? Why do they matter? There are no better answers to these questions than those provided by the authors themselves. We want to let them speak. Professing Literature is not a broad summary of major works. Instead, it will zero in on one or two key passages, looking at them closely in order to figure out what is at stake. The goal wil ...
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Because understanding great literature is better than trying to read and understand (yet) another business book, Leadership Lessons From The Great Books leverages insights from the GREAT BOOKS of the Western canon to explain, dissect, and analyze leadership best practices for the post-modern leader.
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Ryan and Leon are delighted to bring you your NEW favourite poetry podcast, exploring the work of poets old and new, with a little bit of craic mixed in. We'll share our love of poetry every week, taking you on a journey through work from poets you'll have heard of, as well as poets you may not have heard of and even people you had no idea wrote poetry.! We'll also help with our Agony Poet part of the show where we'll accept any challenge of solving a problem with a poem. Nothing is too triv ...
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books - Lessons in Leadership: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks w/Tom Libby and Richard Messing
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books #117 - Lessons in Leadership: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks w/Tom Libby and Richard Messing. --- 00:00 The Torah guides leadership, offering valuable lessons. 09:24 Leadership requires personal responsibility and sacrifice. 13:06 Rabbi Jonathan Sachs, prolific author, and impact…
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Leadership Lessons From the Great Books - Shorts #142 - The Purpose of a System is What it Does...
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books - The Tempest by William Shakespeare
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The Tempest by William Shakespeare --- Pick up your copy of 12 Rules for Leaders: The Foundation of Intentional Leadership NOW on AMAZON! Check out the 2022 Leadership Lessons From the Great Books podcast reading list! --- Subscribe to the Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Podcast: https://bit.ly/LLFTGBSubscribe Check out HSCT Publishing at: …
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Leadership Lessons From the Great Books - Shorts #141 - Are You Not Entertained!
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The robots are taking over lads, and they are starting with this podcast! We wanted to see whether or not AI could put together a couple of decent verses, and you know what, we are regretting inviting AI on as it's shown just how bloody easy writing a few verses is. Before that, inspired by a trip to Paris, we discuss one of France's most iconic ra…
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Muhammad Ali, Emily Brontë And The Importance Of Friendship
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Because you're there for me toooo, oooohh! Yes ladies and gentleman, we were too worried about copyright law to use the Friends theme song for the intro, but today we are in the feels and talking about the value of friendship. Muhammad Ali, when he wasn't being the best fighter that ever lived, was also a very talented poet and we kick off the show…
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books - (Bonus) - Extreme Ownership: How the US Navy Seals Lead and Win by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin w/Atlas Aultman
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books - (Bonus) - Extreme Ownership: How the US Navy Seals Lead and Win by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin w/Atlas Aultman --- 00:00 Welcome and Introduction - Extreme Ownership: How the US Navy Seals Lead and Win by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin w/Atlas Aultman. 02:00 Extreme Ownership - Introduction 10:37 Atlas Aultm…
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Leadership Lessons From the Great Books - Shorts #140 - What Will People Pay For?
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books - The Federalist Papers & Modern Leadership w/ Dorollo Nixon, Jr.
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books #115 - The Federalist Papers & Modern Leadership w/ Dorollo Nixon, Jr. --- 00:00 Welcome and Introduction - The Federalist Papers, Modern Leadership, and the Crisis of Incompetence. 05:00 The Challenge of Contemporary Issues from Assassinations to Government Coups. 09:12 Constitutional Concerns and Bureaucrat…
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Leadership Lessons From the Great Books - Shorts #139 - The Horror of Hanlon's Razor
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Leaders welcome to the consequences of incompetence at the End of the Fourth Turning. --- Pick up your copy of 12 Rules for Leaders: The Foundation of Intentional Leadership NOW on AMAZON! Check out the 2022 Leadership Lessons From the Great Books podcast reading list! --- Subscribe to the Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Podcast: https://bi…
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Shakespeare, Hemingway And Why Do We Write?
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You Shall Not Pass...without listening to this episode! Ian Mckellen and his BBC Radio 2 interview where he discusses the value of remembering Shakespeare's sonnets have pushed us to jump into the brain of Bill Shakespeare and see if we can pick a sonnet each that doesn't give us PTSD of having to study those bloody plays at school After Ryan took …
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books - The U.S. Constitution & The 10th Amendment w/ Dorollo Nixon, Jr.
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books #114 - The U.S. Constitution & The 10th Amendment w/ Dorollo Nixon, Jr. --- --- Opening and closing themes composed by Brian Sanyshyn of Brian Sanyshyn Music. --- Pick up your copy of 12 Rules for Leaders: The Foundation of Intentional Leadership NOW on AMAZON! Check out the Leadership Lessons From the Great …
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Leadership Lessons From the Great Books - Shorts #138 - We Will All Hang Together, or We Will All Hang Separately
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Kendrick Lamar, Wretch 32 and Emmet O'Brien
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Yo, dawg! Whattup, homey! Whatcha...geezer? It didn't take us long to to run out of rap slang terms for friend as you can see, but we wanted to get you into the spirit of the show early as this week's episode is a special on rhythm and poetry, or as you lot would know it better as, RAP! We have left the library this week and entered the basement ra…
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EP23 - Knaves Or Jacks? | Dickens, Great Expectations
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Charles Dickens, Great Expectations. It takes many years and great disappointment for Pip to understand what happened to him. The protagonist of Dickens’ novel lives amid hope and fear, unaware of who it is that shaped his life and what he should really value. His story is about coming to terms with his responsibility, forgiving the ones who had hu…
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books - The Declaration of Independence and Leadership w/ Dorollo Nixon, Jr.
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books #113 - The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson, et.al and Leadership w/ Dorollo Nixon, Jr. --- 00:00 Welcome and Introduction - The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson, et. al. 03:00 Phoenix, Texas, and the Power of Fireworks. 09:00 The Declaration of Independence, Opening. 14:14 Never…
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Leadership Lessons From the Great Books - Shorts #137 - What are We Doing Here?
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Fontaines D.C, Luke Kelly and The Poetry Edit Competition
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And the winner is.. On today’s episode, we reveal the winning poem for our competition in collaboration with The Poetry Edit. It’s been incredible to read the pieces that have been submitted, and we can’t wait to share all three finalist’s with you. As well as the competition, we talk about THAT interview between Jools Holland and Grian Chatten as …
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books (Bonus) - The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
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Supplemental to the Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay --- Music: Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa, Performed by European Archive (https://musopen.org/) --- Pick up your copy of 12 Rules for Leaders: The Foundation of Intentional Leadership NOW on AMAZON! Check out the 2022 Leadership Lessons From the…
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas w/Christen Blair Horne
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books #112 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas w/Christen Horne --- 00:00 Welcome and Introduction - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. 02:00 The Arrival at Marseille Harbor. 06:00 The Literary Life of Alexandre Dumas. 13:40 Hannah Arendt on Eichmann's Trial in Jerusalem and The Count of Monte…
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Leadership Lessons From the Great Books - Shorts #136 - Leading at the Conclusion of Deconstructionism
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The Poetry's Dead Podcast LIVE at Beyond The Pale
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It was sunny. There were beers. But, most importantly, there were poems! We spent the weekend bumping between music tents and food vans down at Beyond The Pale Festival, hosted in 'The Garden Of Ireland' Glendalough, County Wicklow Amongst a backdrop of pretty landscapes were the two fellas, a microphone and their poems. We grabbed anyone we could …
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books - Their Eyes Were Watching God (Part 2) by Zora Neale Hurston w/Tom Libby
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books #111 - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston w/Tom Libby --- 00:00 Welcome and Introduction - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. 02:00 Catching Up With Tom Libby. 04:00 Their Eyes Were Watching God - Chapters 9-12 Summary. 08:30 Janie's Evolution Over Time. 14:43 Leaders and the …
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Leadership Lessons From the Great Books - Shorts #135 - Leaders are Responsible for Their Subordinates
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EP22 - Until the World Is Mended | A Reflection On J.R.R. Tolkien
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J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien is one of the most beloved writers in the English tradition, though that popularity is a source of frustration to many supposedly sophisticated critics and scholars. However, his fans and his detractors alike often miss not just how carefully constructed his fiction is but how seriously it explores p…
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EP21 - Twin Compasses | Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
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John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning. John Donne came of age in a high culture whose notions of love were shaped by writers like Philip Sidney. Donne’s own love poetry, though, was very different. Scandalously frank, experimental, intellectually complex, Donne disdains the traditional conventions. Whether praising the beloved or excoriati…
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books - Night by Elie Wiesel w/Ryan J. Stout and Libby Unger
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books #110 - Night by Elie Wiesel w/Ryan J. Stout and Libby Unger --- 00:00 Welcome and Introduction - Night by Elie Wiesel. 05:00 Book highlights loss of humanity by state. 16:39 Questioning beliefs, warnings emerged unexpectedly, very interesting. 22:46 Difficulty imagining unimaginable horror, yet hope thrives. …
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Leadership Lessons From the Great Books - Shorts #134 - Are You a Tyrant?
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Leaders, be careful of what you're doing out there. --- Pick up your copy of 12 Rules for Leaders: The Foundation of Intentional Leadership NOW on AMAZON! Check out the 2022 Leadership Lessons From the Great Books podcast reading list! --- Subscribe to the Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Podcast: https://bit.ly/LLFTGBSubscribe Check out HSC…
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W.H Davies, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Online Dating
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This one is a little loose people, so get ready! Reason being: The sun was shining and we enjoyed a few garggles before going into the world of poetry this week, so if you fancy grabbing yourself a scoop before you listen, you'd be absolutely so welcome. Speaking of enjoying yourself, we start the show with the iconic 'stand and stare' line from th…
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee w/Tom Libby
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books #109 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee w/Tom Libby --- 00:00 Welcome and Introduction - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. 00:30 Leaders Know the Difference Between Positions and Principles. 02:00 To Kill a Mockingbird: The Book Versus the Movie. 12:00 Summary of To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapters 1-4. 17:…
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Leadership Lessons From the Great Books - Shorts #133 - How to Develop a Moral Conscience
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Pat Ingoldsby, Eavan Boland and The Irish Leaving Cert
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The Poetry’s Dead Podcast x Leaving Cert Special! Well. Kind of. We couldn’t do a whole bloody show about it, that would be as dull as doing the actually exams. But! We’ve got a few leaving cert stories from Leon, poetry from Eavan Boland @eavanbolandpoetry (anyone over 22 that just got a shot of PTSD, don’t worry, you don’t have to do the leaving …
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books (Bonus) - D-Day Message
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Order of the Day (1944) by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander --- Pick up your copy of 12 Rules for Leaders: The Foundation of Intentional Leadership NOW on AMAZON! Check out the Leadership Lessons From the Great Books podcast reading list! Listen to our Veteran's Day Message here-->https://share.transistor.fm/s/00d87512 --- Che…
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EP20 - Star and Star Lover | Sidney, Astrophil and Stella
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Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella. Over the course of the sixteenth century English poets experimented with the sonnet form invented by their Italian neighbours, and the Petrarchan conventions that came with it. The goal was a long sequence of many short poems which chronicle the emotional chaos springing from unrequited love. Sir Philip Sidn…
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books - (Bonus) - A Conversation with Calen Bullard
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books - (Bonus) - A Conversation with Calen Bullard - TVC Healthcare Advocate --- 00:00 Welcome and Introduction - Calen Bullard - Texas Veterans Commission Healthcare Advocate for the Granbury VA OPC. 05:38 Insights from Calen Bullard's Personal Journey. 11:40 Calen Bullard's Military Journey. 19:27 Effective Lead…
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Leadership Lessons From the Great Books - Shorts #132 - The Bible Still Sells 80 Million+ Copies...
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Leaders understand that the Bible describes the structure of reality itself. --- Pick up your copy of 12 Rules for Leaders: The Foundation of Intentional Leadership NOW on AMAZON! Check out the 2022 Leadership Lessons From the Great Books podcast reading list! --- Subscribe to the Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Podcast: https://bit.ly/LLFT…
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Whitney Hanson, Kim Kardashian and Reality Television
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Wake up slowly on this Bank Holiday Monday (here in Ireland) my child and allow us to soothe you back into life with another fun episode of The Poetry's Dead Podcast! We whizz around every conversational topic known to man on this one like two ADHD teenagers having their first pint, and we had a great time with it. Our patreon community's first fea…
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books - Their Eyes Were Watching God (Part 1) by Zora Neale Hurston w/Tom Libby
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books #108 - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. --- 00:00 Welcome and Introduction - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. 02:00 Catching Up With Tom Libby. 05:29 Their Eyes Were Watching God - Chapters 1-4 Summary. 08:00 The Literary Life of Zora Neale Hurston. 13:08 The Impact of Di…
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books (Bonus) - Memorial Day Message
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Gettysburg Address by President Abraham Lincoln --- Pick up your copy of 12 Rules for Leaders: The Foundation of Intentional Leadership NOW on AMAZON! Check out the Leadership Lessons From the Great Books podcast reading list! Listen to our Veteran's Day Message here-->https://share.transistor.fm/s/00d87512 --- Check out HSCT Publishing at: https:/…
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Kae Tempest, Sylvia Plath And Stag Parties
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Oh we bloody missed you, and we hope a few of you missed us too! We're back with a bang or two as we share stories of stag parties, proposals and ask the question that everyone is asking. How depressing is it to be a poet? We talk about the magic of Kae Tempest, and the way she twists words around sound like nobody else. Sylvia Plath makes her debu…
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books - Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books #107 - Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter --- 00:00 Welcome and Introduction Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter. 01:00 Leaders, We are at the Start of a Reckoning. 03:00 Miranda and Death Riding in on a Pale Horse. 05:00 The Literary Life of Katherine Anne Porter. 12:00 Miranda, Adam…
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Leadership Lessons From the Great Books - Shorts #131 - The Writing of 'Dead White Men' Matters for Leaders
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott w/Tom Libby
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books #106 - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. --- 00:00 Welcome and Introduction - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. 05:00 Tom's Birthday and the Passing of a Few Summers. 08:25 Little Women and Bonding with irascible Aunt March. 12:44 Louisa May Alcott: Transcendentalism, poverty, and writing. 28:43 Surprised t…
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EP19 - Into the Storm | Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes” (Part Two)
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John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes,” (Part Two). Today we conclude our examination of Keats’ poem, looking at three pairs of stanzas that describe the strange courtship of Porphyro and Madeline and their escape from the castle. We love hearing from all of you. Please email us at ProfessingLiterature@protonmail.com. ------ Theme Music: "Nobility" by …
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Leadership Lessons From the Great Books - Shorts #130 - Leaders Say "No."
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Leaders know that "no" is a sentence. --- Pick up your copy of 12 Rules for Leaders: The Foundation of Intentional Leadership NOW on AMAZON! Check out the 2022 Leadership Lessons From the Great Books podcast reading list! --- Subscribe to the Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Podcast: https://bit.ly/LLFTGBSubscribe Check out HSCT Publishing a…
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Oscar Wilde, Dylan Thomas And Taylor Swift
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We are finally showing just how basic we both are with this latest episode guys, so be warned! We've been putting Oscar WIlde on the back burner since the show launched, but today's the day we give him a proper segment with a journey around his one-liners, plays, fictional works and poetry. A little moan about Dylan Thomas being a bit 'up himself' …
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books - Seven Gothic Tales by Baroness Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books #105 - Seven Gothic Tales by Baroness Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen). --- 00:00 Welcome and Introduction - Seven Gothic Tales by Baroness Karen Blixen 01:00 Karen Blixen, World Traveler, and Old Money Aristocratic Gatekeeper 03:00 Leaders Man the Gates of Culture 05:00 "The Deluge at Norderney" - Part One 08:00 …
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Leadership Lessons From the Great Books - Shorts #129 - Gatekeeping Leadership
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Leaders, man the gates. --- Pick up your copy of 12 Rules for Leaders: The Foundation of Intentional Leadership NOW on AMAZON! Check out the 2022 Leadership Lessons From the Great Books podcast reading list! --- Subscribe to the Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Podcast: https://bit.ly/LLFTGBSubscribe Check out HSCT Publishing at: https://www…
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Pam Ayres, Charity Shop Books And Staying On The Right Path
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This. One. Was. Fun We parade around the fun and freeing mind of Pam Ayres, as she gives us a lovely spring in our steps with her warm and giggly poetry. We share some tips on getting back into reading, and our love of spending time in charity shops and picking up a book for a euro. David Hynes comes in with his Perfectly Polished Poem flooded with…
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books - (Bonus) - A Conversation with Peter Ainley
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books - (Bonus) - A Conversation with Peter Ainley --- 00:00 Welcome and Introduction to Peter Ainley. 05:00 Peter Ainley - Background and Personal Story. 15:00 Left Brain versus Right Brain in Leadership. 20:38 "Features" versus "Bugs" in the Leadership Experience. 21:08 How Does a Leader 'Get Things Done?' 26:38 …
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