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Save Me From My Shelf - Podcast

Save Me From My Shelf

We're friends and academics who take classic literature off its pedestal by making fun of it.

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Fiction Arts Literature Comedy Books Teaching
Update frequency
every 12 days
Average duration
55 minutes
Episodes
112
Years Active
2021 - 2025
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Bonus: Blooper Reel #3 - Four Legs Good

Bonus: Blooper Reel #3 - Four Legs Good

More bonus content for the summer hiatus.


It's all about animals this time: all the ones Daniel hates, the ones that turn up in dreams, and the ones that our natural enemies (the Devonians) use to moc…

00:05:06  |   Tue 02 Aug 2022
Bonus: Blooper Reel #2 - S*x and F**d

Bonus: Blooper Reel #2 - S*x and F**d

Another steaming bowl of bonus material coming your way.


This podcast, provisionally named 'Carry on up the Canon', has never shied away from the odd bawdy joke, except when sublimating these into fo…

00:08:28  |   Tue 26 Jul 2022
Bonus: Blooper Reel #1 - Cultural Insights

Bonus: Blooper Reel #1 - Cultural Insights

A bit of bonus material to tide you over during the summer hiatus.


The archives of Save Me From My Shelf are littered with cultural insights and aperçus which would have felt out of place in any part…

00:06:32  |   Mon 18 Jul 2022
Episode 25 - Silas Marner

Episode 25 - Silas Marner

Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our twenty-fifth episode, End of Season 2, and End-Of-Year Special, we read George Eliot's 1861 proto-Realist/Germa…

01:07:31  |   Wed 06 Jul 2022
Episode 24 - Nineteen Eighty-Four

Episode 24 - Nineteen Eighty-Four

Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. Our DoublePlusTolerable twenty-fourth episode covers George Orwell's 1949 totalitarian dystopia, 1984. If you're looki…

01:06:25  |   Wed 22 Jun 2022
Episode 23 - Pride and Prejudice

Episode 23 - Pride and Prejudice

Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. Our twenty-third episode features the Antichrist, an indictment of the £10 note, the King of Himbos, and some snippets…

01:10:59  |   Wed 08 Jun 2022
Episode 22 - Jekyll and Hyde

Episode 22 - Jekyll and Hyde

Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. Our twenty-second episode is one extended queer reading--full of dodgy back doors, debauchery-filled strolls, and a vi…

01:13:05  |   Wed 25 May 2022
Episode 21 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Episode 21 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. Our twenty-first episode is full of intrusive THOTS, dawg-named babies, power bottoms, and 'inelegant horseplay' as we…

00:55:56  |   Wed 11 May 2022
Episode 20 - Things Fall Apart

Episode 20 - Things Fall Apart

Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. Our twentieth episode is nothing but potatoes, patriarchy, and proverbs with Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958).


01:07:26  |   Wed 27 Apr 2022
Episode 19 - Moll Flanders

Episode 19 - Moll Flanders

Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. Our nineteenth episode is all about S-E-X: we cover Daniel Defoe's 1722 raunchy crime-spree confessional, Moll Flander…

01:15:45  |   Wed 13 Apr 2022
Episode 18 - Orlando

Episode 18 - Orlando

Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our eighteenth episode, we cover Virginia Woolf's trans, posho, time-traveling romp, Orlando (1928). Daniel once ag…

01:00:52  |   Wed 30 Mar 2022
Episode 17 - Beowulf

Episode 17 - Beowulf

Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our seventeenth episode, we go back to the first major English work: Beowulf. So, hwæt, dummies! Join us if you lik…

01:03:54  |   Wed 16 Mar 2022
Episode 16 - Hamlet

Episode 16 - Hamlet

Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our sixteenth episode, we examine Shakespeare's most olfactory play. Abby celebrates a strong return of himbos to t…

01:04:13  |   Wed 02 Mar 2022
Episode 15 - Jane Eyre

Episode 15 - Jane Eyre

Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our fifteenth episode and Valentine's Day special, we follow Jane Eyre on her angry quest to find love, avoid house…

01:20:13  |   Sun 13 Feb 2022
Trailer: Jane Eyre - Valentine's Day Special

Trailer: Jane Eyre - Valentine's Day Special

Theme music: Kevin MacLeod, 'Carpe Diem'; Rimsky-Korsakov, 'Flight of the Bumblebee', United States Air Force Band.




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00:02:33  |   Wed 09 Feb 2022
Episode 14 - Gulliver's Travels

Episode 14 - Gulliver's Travels

Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our fourteenth episode and Season 2 premiere, we follow Lemuel Gulliver, Esq., as he poops his way around the globe…

01:14:16  |   Wed 02 Feb 2022
Episode 13 - A Christmas Carol

Episode 13 - A Christmas Carol

Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our thirteenth episode and Christmas special, we see: lobsters glowing like an open fire, oysters nipping at your n…

01:29:01  |   Wed 22 Dec 2021
Trailer: A Christmas Carol - Christmas Special

Trailer: A Christmas Carol - Christmas Special

Theme music: Gruber/Mohr, 'Stille Nacht', sung by Ernestine Schumann-Heink; Tchaikovsky, 'Trepak', Ballet Francaise Symphony Orchestra.

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00:02:11  |   Wed 15 Dec 2021
Episode 12 - Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Episode 12 - Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our twelfth episode, Daniel premieres a quiz segment and gets himself all lusty over agriculture and metaphysics. A…

01:14:37  |   Wed 08 Dec 2021
Episode 11 - Oedipus

Episode 11 - Oedipus

Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. We might have faces good for podcasting, but in our eye-watering eleventh episode, we discuss a face only a mother cou…

00:50:11  |   Wed 24 Nov 2021
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