Evening under Lamplight Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Series 4.4, Dante's Purgatorio 4
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dante exhausts himself after his first effort of climbing up the mountain, but meets an old friend, whose laziness contrasts with Dante's exertions.
Series 3.8 Stevenson's Fables, "The Cart-Horses and the Saddle Horse"
20 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A short beast fable set in Samoa, exposing snobbery that leads to ironic misconceptions.
Series 4.3, Dante's Purgatorio, Canto 3
20 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dante and Virgil meet up with a new group of souls, who seem to act like sheep in a flock as they let go of the impulse to act individually and ...
Series 3.7, Stevenson's Fables: The Man and His Friend
19 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A complex, and bitter, fable about naively misplaced trust, and its consequences.
Series 3.6, Stevenson's Fables: The Citizen and the Traveller
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A very short fable about provincial pride, inflated egos, and a fatal lack of tactfulness.
Series 4.2, Purgatorio 2
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dante and Virgil meet a shipload of new souls coming to the mountain, one of whom is an old friend of Dante's. There is singing, and beauty, and a rus...
Series 3.5, Fables: The Scientific Ape
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A longer fable, addressing the controversy between science and morality, or head and heart - a bitter but comic tale in the manner of Jonathan Swift.
Series 4.1, Purgatorio 1
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We begin Series 4 as we follow Dante and Virgil as they come up to and ascend Mount Purgatory, a story dramatising what we do when we cleanse ourselve...
Series 3.4, Stevenson's Fables: "The Two Matches"
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A short, timely fable, about devastating fires in California (back in 1879), and about how projecting our fears onto the future can keep us from any k...
Series 3.3, Stevenson's Fables: The Sick Man and the Fireman
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here's another fable about thinking too much in a time of crisis, but it also expands into a consideration of just what makes each of us valuable and ...
Series 3.2, Stevenson's Fables: The Sinking Ship
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here is a short drama, set aboard a ship at sea, the men on board facing certain death as the ship sinks. What do they do in such a crisis? The unexpe...
Series 3.1, Stevenson's Fables: The Reader
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We begin a series of podcasts featuring the Fables of Robert Louis Stevenson, odd, biting, little tales, or dramas. "The Reader" aims at narrow-minded...
Dante's Inferno, Canto 34
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We come to the end of the journey through Hell, the final stage: no encounters, but a sight of the Devil himself, enormous and hideous, with no intell...
Dante's Inferno, Canto 33
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The two final encounters with damned souls, and two of the most gruesome and weird stories on the whole journey.
Dante's Inferno, Canto 32
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here we are at the bottom of Hell, a frozen lake, only the heads of the traitors down here appearing up out of the ice. And nothing but malice, both t...
Dante's Inferno, Canto 31
04 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's the transition from Fraud to Treachery, and Dante and Virgil have to pass through a ring of giants, requesting the least hostile of them to give ...
Dante's Inferno, Canto 30
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We come to the end of the Circle of Fraud, in a confused, insane, inhuman chaos of disease and rancour - deceit and malice just dumped down here.
Dante's Inferno, Canto 29
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Now we come to the final ditch of Fraud, featuring the falsifiers, and featuring diseases of various kinds. In this canto we see the alchemists who cl...
The Tempest, Act V, Scene 1.6
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The conclusion of the play, in which Prospero can be a model of gracious ageing, and we are given the power to bless and dismiss the whole show.
The Tempest, Act V, Scene 1.5
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Further reconciliations, including Prospero and his dark side, an essential integrating healing.
The Tempest, Act V, Scene 1.4
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The lovers are "discovered", lovingly playing a game of chess, of all things. Father and son are reconciled, and the engagement gets official blessing...
The Tempest, Act V, Scene 1.3
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The big confrontation, with some resolution, some uncertainty, and a build-up of suspense.
The Tempest, Act V, Scene 1.2
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
More about forgiveness and freedom, as we rapidly head to the conclusion of this Revenge Comedy.
The Tempest, Act V, Scene 1.1
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here we come to the climax of the play, which turns everything around.
Dante's Inferno, Canto 28
27 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A very bloody ditch for those who encouraged others to shed blood. Come along with us if you dare.
Dante's Inferno, Canto 27
25 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Probably the most fascinating story within the Inferno. We hear Guido da Montefeltro's inside story about how he, who prided himself in his cleverness...
Dante's Inferno, Canto 26
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here's the famous episode where Dante hears from Ulysses, wrapped in a quivering flame, who describes his final "mad flight" into the unknown, and for...
The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1.3
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The farcical adventures of Caliban and his confederates, drunk, trifling, and deceived by Prospero's "trumpery".
The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1.2
21 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here's the big spectacle of the play: a Masque, formal and ornate, a mythic celebration of the marriage between Ferdinand and Miranda.
Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1.1
21 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The lovers are formally engaged, and get ready for a spectacular performance to celebrate and bless their upcoming marriage.
Dante's Inferno, Canto 25
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The second part of the horror story of the ditch of thieves, the most spectacular canto in the Inferno.
Dante's Inferno, Canto 24
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We enter the horrible ditch of the thieves. If you get the creeps from snakes, you might want to be on your guard. But don't run away: there's a fasci...
The Tempest, Act III, Scene 3
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A scene with magic spectacle and guilt, and triumph for Prospero. But his plans are not finished.
The Tempest, Act III, Scene 2
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A drunken scene, an inept plot to overthrow Prospero, some other nasty business, and some etherial magic. On the surface, a simple, comic moment in th...
The Tempest, Act III, Scene 1
14 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The beautiful love scene in the middle of the play, where the world beyond becomes irrelevant as they declare their love.
Dante's Inferno, Canto 23
12 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dante and Virgil flee from the demons of corruption and slide down into the doleful ditch of the hypocrites, for the next round of surprises.
Dante's Inferno, Canto 22
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're now in the middle of the public corruption episode, where you can't trust anyone, and the sin sticks to them all.
Dante's Inferno, Canto 21
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Canto 21 begins an extended episode about public corruption, a sin both horrible and, in an odd way, comic. And because we're in the region of fraud, ...
The Tempest, Act II, Scene 2
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
And now for some comic relief, a comic, or perhaps pathetic version of the insubordination theme.
The Tempest, Act II, Scene 1
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We watch the King and his nobles to see how they are faring on the island, and there's conspiracy and insubordination here, very cleverly dramatised.
The Tempest, I, 2.4
07 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The final section of the second scene of the play, in which the two lovers meet for the first time, and are charmed in different ways, always overseen...
The Tempest, I, 2.3
07 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We are now introduced to Caliban, and our sympathies are challenged as we watch Prospero, Miranda, and Caliban together on the stage.
Dante's Inferno, Canto 20
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's a twisted canto: twisted bodies and twisted knowledge.
Dante's Inferno, Canto 19
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
At the third ditch of the circle of fraud, we meet a former Pope, now positioned head-first into a hole in the ground, his feet and legs exposed, and ...
Dante's Inferno, Canto 18
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're now at the half-way point in the Inferno, and we'll spend the whole rest of the poem looking at the various forms of Fraud, the sin that destroy...
The Tempest, I, 2.2
31 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're on the second part of Act I, Scene 2, and meet Ariel, the tricksy spirit who is Prospero's stage manager and technical crew. We learn more about...
The Tempest, I, 2.1
30 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We move on to the opening part of Scene 2 of Act 1, shifting from the storm we'd just witnessed to a behind-the-scene account of what was behind the s...
The Tempest, Act I, Scene 1
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We begin a new series of Evening under Lamplight Podcasts with a series on Shakespeare's play The Tempest. Here is the first episode, on the startling...
Dante's Inferno, Canto 17
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We've come to the end of Violence, at the spot where it begins to merge into Fraud, with the presence of the hybrid monster who will take Dante and Vi...
Dante's Inferno, Canto 16
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here at Canto 16 we become overwhelmed with the roar of a waterfall, while three august figures from the generation before Dante try to steer him in t...
Dante's Inferno, Canto 15
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We come next in The Inferno to Brunetto Latini, a writer and public servant whom Dante reverse, but who is here with those who were violent against Na...
Dante's Inferno, Canto 14
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're now at Canto 14, the first of three cantos describing those who are Violent against God, nature, and art - a place of flames of fire descending ...
Dante's Inferno, Canto 13
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Canto 13 we find ourselves in an eerie, dead forest, and meet those who have been violent to themselves, and to their property, who are suffering s...
Dante's Inferno, Canto 12
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here is the psychological state of being violent towards other people - and this can range from mass murder and genocide all the way down to making fu...
Dante's Inferno, Canto 11
10 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Canto 11, one of the shortest cantos in The Inferno, provides a rest from the action, as Virgil explains to Dante what they're about to face as they e...
Dante's Inferno, Canto 10
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here, just inside the walls of the Inner City of Hell, Dante finds the souls of the heretics, boxed in with their own limited vision of reality, almos...
Dante's Inferno, Canto 9
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Canto 9, we encounter the Furies, we just miss being turned to stone by Medusa, we are saved by a heavenly presence, and we move on into enemy terr...
Dante's Inferno, Canto 8
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Canto 8 we come face to face with anger, and then are stopped by over a thousand hostile demons blocking the entrance into the lower regions of Hel...
Dante's Inferno, Canto 7
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We come to Canto 7, where we encounter two groups of sinners: those who took money to an extreme, and those whom anger conquered. We also learn about ...
Dante's Inferno, Canto 6
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We come to Circle Three of the Inferno, the disgusting home of the gluttons.
Dante's Inferno, Canto 5, part 2
25 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
More about the circle of the Lustful, and the seductive Francesca.
Dante's Inferno, Canto 5, part 1
25 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We come to the Circle of the Lustful - and beware of whom we trust around here!
Dante's Inferno, Canto 4
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Come with Dante to the First Circle of Hell, the region of Limbo, where we see the souls of the dead who have been good, but not good enough, and it's...
Dante's Inferno, Canto 3 (part 2)
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We continue the discussion of Dante's first encounters in Hell: the puny souls blindly rushing behind a nameless flag, representing most of the people...
Dante's Inferno, Canto 3 (part 1)
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Canto 3 we encounter the hard words written over the Gate of Hell, and then enter into the Infernal Regions. First Dante encounters those souls who...
Dante's Inferno, Canto 2
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dante pulls back from the journey into Hell, thinking he's not qualified to survive such an enterprise, but Virgil tells him of the three saintly ladi...
Dante's Inferno, Canto 1
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The first episode in a series of talks bringing to life Dante's Inferno, that great journey through Hell and all he sees there. We begin with Dante lo...