The Pre-Raphaelite Podcast
We are delighted to introduce The Pre-Raphaelite Podcast. Featuring guest speakers, roundtable discussions as well as interviews with artists and poets, we shall bring quality Pre-Raphaelite content directly to you. Available now on all major streaming platforms. Please visit The Pre-Raphaelite Society online: www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 82
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Nature, Space and Place
We delighted to welcome Jordan Walsh back to the Pre-Raphaelite Podcast. Today Jordan talks to Karl about his research exploring the themes of Religion and Nature. This episode centres on space and p…
Stanley Spencer’s Pre-Raphaelite Influences
Dr Amy Lim speaks to us from the Stanley Spencer Gallery about the influences of the Pre-Raphaelites on Stanley Spencer's work. Concentrating on the themes of religion and nature, we discover some su…
Dreams and Stories: Modern Pre-Raphaelite Visionaries 1880-1930
Live from the Watts Gallery, Hannah is joined by curators Dr Lauren MacCulloch and Dr Alice Eden to explore the exhibition 'Dreams and Stories: Modern Pre-Raphaelite Visionaries'. Largely focusing on…
Staging Christina Rossetti’s ’Goblin Market’
Kath Burlinson speaks to us about adapting Rossetti's sensuous and magical 'Goblin Market' for the stage. Kath talks us through the scripting, costumes and music, but also how to navigate and retain …
Curating at Wightwick Manor with Hannah Squire
Hannah and Karl return to Wightwick Manor for a live recording. As well as being a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Podcast team, Hannah is museum professional and curator who has a long associa…
The Legacy of Fanny Eaton
Fanny Eaton remains a significant figure in both art history and black history. Long overlooked and underappreciated, Fanny Eaton recently received the honour of a blue plaque to celebrate her life. …
The Fall and Rise of Fanny Cornforth
The wonderful Kirsty Stonell Walker talks to the team about the life and times of Fanny Cornforth. Possibly the most underappreciated of Rossetti's 'stunners', Fanny's life and contribution to Pre-Ra…
’A Young Teacher’ Rebecca Solomon, 1861
Dr Jan Marsh, one of the most eminent scholars of Pre-Raphaelitism, speaks to us about the temporary export bar on Rebecca Solomon's important work 'A Young Teacher'. An important work in Jewish, Bla…
A Christmas Gathering!
The Pre-Raphaelite Podcast team get back together for this special episode. We discuss the successes of the last few months, laugh about a few particular highlights and look forward to the next year.…
Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry: A Treasure Trove of Victorian Poetry
The project manager, Dr Alison Chapman speaks about the treasure trove that is Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry (DVPP). A labour of love, this website has archived thousands of nineteenth-century …
Scented Visions: Smell in Art 1850-1914
How can you smell a painting? In her latest wonderful work, Dr Christina Bradstreet shows us how scent was exploited for its synesthetic potential in Pre-Raphaelite artworks. Despite possibly being a…
Make It New: The Pre-Raphaelites and The Modernists
In this episode, Hannah Comer talks to Karl about the ways in which the Pre-Raphaelites and the Modernists shared a number of processes in their creation of art and poetry. Myth-making, reshaping ide…
At Home With Jane Morris
Sheri and Ester are joined by Suzanne Fagence Cooper whose latest work 'How We Might Live: At Home With Jane and William Morris' explores the enormous legacies of the Morris family. In this episode, …
’The Legend of King Arthur’
Natalie Rigby speaks to Hannah about curating the wonderful exhibition 'The Legend of King Arthur'. Always a popular subject for Pre-Raphaelite enthusiasts, Natalie shares how the exhibition came int…
Studying the Pre-Raphaelites
Our special guest Jordan Welsh chats with Alex and Karl about studying for a PhD in the Pre-Raphaelites. All are at different stages of their journey and offer some reflections, advice and handy hint…
The Presence and the Dream, the book launch Special Edition, Part 2
In the second part of this special edition, The Pre-Raphaelite Society's Poet in Residence Sarah Doyle hosts an online launch for our latest poetry anthology 'The Presence and the Dream'. Winners of …
The Presence and the Dream, the book launch Special Edition, Part 1
In this special edition, The Pre-Raphaelite Society's Poet in Residence Sarah Doyle hosts an online launch for our latest poetry anthology 'The Presence and the Dream'. Winners of our annual poetry c…
Exoticism and the Pre-Raphaelites
Sheri Schrader and Karl Merrick discuss the themes of exoticism and orientalism in Pre-Raphaelite works, with a focus on D.G. Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and William Morris. How did the Pre-Raphael…
The Unfinished Painting: Mythology and the Pre-Raphaelites
Novelist and scholar Mercedes Aguirre joins Ester to explore the use of Classical mythology in Pre-Raphaelite painting. Mercedes explains how her stories explore both Classical and Pre-Raphaelite the…
Wightwick Manor
Live from the beautiful Wightwick Manor! Our special guest Helen Bratt-Wyton is the Senior Collections and House Manager at Wightwick. Helen chats to Hannah Squire about the history of this fantasti…