Find your next listen
Choose a topic and level, then practice at your own pace.
Unit 12 lessons
Unit 22 lessons
Unit 32 lessons
Unit 42 lessons
Unit 52 lessons
Why Translations Reshape Classics
A literary scholar discusses how every translation quietly rewrites a great work of literature.
The Stream of Consciousness Novel
A lecturer examines how modernist novelists revolutionised fiction by imitating the flow of human thought.
Unit 62 lessons
Unit 72 lessons
Writing Short Stories at School
A student writes a short story about an old sailor for the school magazine and gets advice from a friend.
How a Novelist Plots a Story
A novelist explains how she plans the plot of a new book with cards, characters, and problems.
Unit 82 lessons
Shakespeare in the School Theatre
A school theatre group prepares a comedy by William Shakespeare and performs it on opening night.
Why Classic Novels Still Matter
A talk about why classic novels written centuries ago are still valuable for modern readers.
Unit 92 lessons
The Craft of Editing a Manuscript
A writer describes the painful but necessary work of editing the first draft of a novel.
Finding a Voice in Modern Fiction
A talk about how writers develop a personal voice and style through years of practice.
Unit 102 lessons
Symbols in Nineteenth Century Poetry
A lecture about how poets of the nineteenth century used everyday objects as symbols with deep meaning.
Unreliable Narrators in Modern Fiction
An advanced talk about unreliable narrators and how they turn reading into an active game of detection.
Unit 112 lessons
Unit 122 lessons
Unit 132 lessons
Unit 142 lessons
Unit 152 lessons
Unit 162 lessons
Unit 172 lessons
Unit 182 lessons
Unit 192 lessons
Unit 202 lessons
Hemingway and the Art of Revision
A look at Hemingway's simple style, his iceberg theory, and his love of rewriting.
Stream of Consciousness and Mrs Dalloway
How Woolf and Joyce used stream of consciousness to capture the movement of the mind.