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Laughter - Part 9 from 2019-04-02T04:00:30

In this episode I couldn't help thinking of Tati. "Something mechanical encrusted upon the living" was essentially his bottomless subject in movies like Playtime. The snowball effect is used ove...

Laughter - Part 8 from 2019-03-25T23:47:21

I was watching Fleabag tonight and thought of this essay.

p.s. I snipped a graf that went into a lot of detailed examples from French theatre. Sorry not sorry.

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Laughter - Part 7 from 2019-02-26T22:04:54

I really like this section. About halfway through, it really becomes something quite beautiful and profound.

On this read-through I'm struck by how many examples from stage and literat...

Laughter - Part 6 from 2019-02-19T05:00:45

In which we learn that sitting is funnier than standing. I'm not sure I buy it but who am I to argue with Napoleon?

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Laughter - Part 5 from 2019-02-12T22:01:16

There's a passage in here that makes the hair on my neck stand up. "There is a logic of the imagination which is not the logic of reason, one which at times is even opposed to the latter,- with ...

Laughter - Part 4 from 2019-02-05T21:40:34

Bergson died in 1941. I really hope he was fit enough to get out to the cinema in 1936 to see Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times, a manic, joyful literalization of everything he's saying here. I hav...

Laughter - Part 3 from 2019-01-26T18:05:12

Comedy's relationship with ugliness and beauty. ("Unsprightly vs unsightly" - nice one, Cloudesley!) The listener may wonder why Bergson's having this discussion at all. From what I can tell, th...

Laughter - Part 2 from 2019-01-19T21:35:39

Imagine you had the power to invoke a command performance of the funniest standup in the world, doing her routine just for you, at your house. It would be awful. Comedy depends on the social. Yo...

Laughter - Part 1 from 2019-01-14T22:01:58

On the cutting room floor: a bit of the introduction; the transformer humming on a hard-to-reach piece of equipment; the word "table d'hôte" which I probably could have translated as "common tab...

Laughter - Welcome from 2019-01-08T00:35:42

A little bit about the translator Cloudesley Brereton's wife: she was Maud Brereton. There's a photograph of her on the Cambridge University website, where she was briefly Principal of Homerton ...

Salammbô - Chapter 15: Matho (Plus BONUS interview!) from 2018-06-06T04:00

Flaubert's tale concludes sharpish. We talked to Professor Anne Green about what happened and what it means. Presented and produced by Eli Sessions. Music: Damiano Baldoni & Lobo Loco

Salammbô - Chapter 14: The Pass of the Hatchet from 2018-05-31T23:40:59

Stuck in the middle with you. Presented and produced by Eli Sessions. Music: Damiano Baldoni & Lobo Loco

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Salammbô - Chapter 12: The Aqueduct from 2018-05-16T04:00

Viva the mulattos of doubtful sex! Presented and produced by Eli Sessions. Music: Damiano Baldoni & Lobo Loco

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Salammbô - Chapter 10: The Serpent from 2018-05-02T04:00

It's time for the patriarchy! Presented and produced by Eli Sessions. Music: Damiano Baldoni & Lobo Loco

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An extract from the feckless author's diary of shame. Presented and produced by Eli Sessions. Translation: Eric Mader. Music: Brahim Fribgane

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Salammbô - Chapter 9: In The Field from 2018-04-18T04:00

You ain't syntagmata yet. Presented and produced by Eli Sessions. Music: Damiano Baldoni & Lobo Loco

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Salammbô - Chapter 5: Tanith from 2018-03-21T05:00

Yoink! She gone. Presented and produced by Eli Sessions. Music: Damiano Baldoni & Lobo Loco

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Salammbô - Chapter 4: Beneath The Walls of Carthage from 2018-03-14T05:00

Bring on the grappling hooks. Presented and produced by Eli Sessions. Music: Damiano Baldoni & Lobo Loco

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Salammbô - Chapter 2: At Sicca from 2018-02-28T05:00

Tea made with weasels? Check. Presented and produced by Eli Sessions. Music: Damiano Baldoni & Lobo Loco

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Welcome to Salammbô from 2018-02-05T23:11:24

Few in the English-speaking world have ever read this harrowing, weird, richly descriptive novel from a fella named Gustave Flaubert. Hit subscribe and Eli will read it to you one chapter at a t...