78 episodes

We're friends and academics who take classic literature off its pedestal by making fun of it.
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Save Me From My Shelf Abigail Boucher and Daniel Jenkin-Smith

    • Comedy

We're friends and academics who take classic literature off its pedestal by making fun of it.
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    SMFMS Bookends 6 - A Midsummer Night's Dream

    SMFMS Bookends 6 - A Midsummer Night's Dream

    The sixth episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Midsummer Night's Dream episode.
    You can hear us on an episode of Carl Sweeney's The Movie Palace here, in the last 5-10 minutes of the show, where we recommend our favourite pre-'70s film: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/classic-movie-recommendations-part-1/id1398503911?i=1000656989665

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    • 33 min
    Episode 56 - A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Episode 56 - A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our fifty-sixth episode, we celebrate midsummer with Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1605). We make a lot of (obvious) jokes about asses, Amazon, and fairy kink (despite not reading THE fairy kink book).
    Cover art © Catherine Wu.
    Episode Theme: Felix Mendelssohn, A Midsummer Night's Dream 'Op 61'

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    • 1 hr 8 min
    SMFMS Bookends 5 - The Grapes of Wrath

    SMFMS Bookends 5 - The Grapes of Wrath

    The fifth episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from The Grapes of Wrath episode.
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    • 32 min
    Episode 55 - The Grapes of Wrath

    Episode 55 - The Grapes of Wrath

    Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our fifty-fifth episode, we recap John Steinbeck's 1939 Dust Bowl adventure, Biblical allegory, and socialist manifesto, The Grapes of Wrath. It's all pigs, sex, and pooping (a shocking amount of pooping). We discover the show's second mono-butt-cheeked character, Abby develops a backup plan for a life of crime, and Daniel goes on a rant about topsoil.
    Cover art © Catherine Wu.
    Episode Theme: 'Woody' on guitar and harmonica, by Daniel Jenkin-Smith.

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    • 1 hr 16 min
    SMFMS Bookends 4: The Time Machine

    SMFMS Bookends 4: The Time Machine

    The forth episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from The Time Machine episode.
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    • 41 min
    Episode 54 - The Time Machine

    Episode 54 - The Time Machine

    Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our last episode, we went into the past. Now, in our fifty-fourth episode, we go way, way into the future with H.G. Wells's The Time Machine (1895). We workshop Save Me From My Shelf: On Ice!, turn into feral, biting Morlocks, and wonder what the hell is going on with time travel romances, both generally and in the Year of Our Lord BOOBIES.
    Cover art © Catherine Wu.
    Episode Theme: 'Gnossienne No. 1', Erik Satie.

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    • 1 hr 11 min

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