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Hosted by Leigh Jones & Peter Mitchell · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 25 episodes
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A chapter-by-chapter run-through of Herman Melville's 1851 epic about a big fish: Moby-Dick.
Leigh Jones & Peter Mitchell hosts The Whale Pod, a arts show with 25 episodes published.
There's a baby seagull squeaking in the background all the way through this episode, that's how good the microphones we use are these days, and it's not at all irritating, just adds to the nautical vibes. The great lost
A dog-eggs first sentence followed by a Melville masterclass, WHALE CHASE! Racism, WHALE CHASE! Reverie, WHALE CHASE! Plot twist! WHALE CHASE! Oh God, the racism, WHALE CHASE! This episode is the discussion about chapter
Happy birthday Melville, bronze whale bones, the whaling ports of Britain, the believability of The Salt Path , reading Marx, deconstructing fictional narrative, the gravitational mass of Moby-Dick , the whale ship Essex
Twentieth century theatre, "CARAMBA!", cholos, the curse of knowledge, the best curse from Romania, stowaways, flavours of autism, normies, how to find a specific whale in the ocean, and the internal torment to which we
Herman Melville at his most subtle, 'Spooge', the magnificence and terror of Whiteness, Treaty of Paris, the Iroquois Confederacy, the creation of Whiteness, racial superstructures, the albatross, Iron Maiden, Samuel Tay
Dreaming of Dick, Garth Marenghi's 'Dickplace', "unbridled Melville going hogwild", whaling spirituality, the legend of Moby Dick, The Essex, Melville Marginalia, Thomas Beale, converging research, Mocha Dick, "Melville,
The fallout from Ahab's declaration that their whaling mission, stage directions, Hamlet, the Iron Crown of Lombardy facts, Napoleon, Sex Pistols, men's mental health, everything is trains, plundering interiors, railway
"Art not game for Moby Dick?!" One of the big Ahab chapters. The aul' fella fully exploding into the story. Recording in a heatwave, Shakespeare, philosophy rears its ugly head, paranoia, prophecies of fascism, an ounce
Thirty-five chapters in, and we've seen no whales, but we're about to learn a lot about looking for whales. Also, the all-important question: plop or splat? This episode is the discussion about chapter 35 of Herman Melvi
Professional blunders, WhaleTok, the Dutch language is not real, discipline, Power, "who's the captain?", flattened hierarchies, the Titanic sinks, give us a break, becoming one with The Force, Manuel from Fawlty Towers,
One of the most maligned chapters of Moby-Dick is the litany of whales and Ishmael's taxonomy thereof. Is it that bad? This episode is the discussion about chapter 32 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; Cetology. Follow us o
Whale news, endorsing baleen whales, whale cocktails, David's crack, the Grand Tour, "...or Ishmael, rather...", finally clapping eyes on Ahab (who then does nothing), fighting the elements, modular man, warmer weather,
The litany of sailors, rationing danger, enraged and mighty men, Columbo, Dick Van Dyke, Mission: Impossible, whale-based erotica, Protestantism (again), John Bunyan, Don Quixote, Andrew Jackson pioneering ethnic cleansi
The two Ishmaels, whale journalism, Simon "whaler" Bolivar, whale diplomacy, Wales (not whales), squirting jets of spunk, the university of life, Modernism (again), Melville's havin' a laff, Handel, George II, the Champi
It's Christmas Day, we're 111 pages in, and we're finally going on a whaling voyage. This episode includes 'Jeeves and Wooster go whaling', pilots, blood and thunder, Charles Dickens, Isaac Watts, Toy Story 3, inevitable
The ongoing book club chatting about Moby-Dick. Elijah, prophecy, "Ahab's canny good at huntin' whales", don't show the monster, Alexander Armstrong, hyperreality, David Lynch, Brian Eno's elevator music, happy endings,
Sperm whale birth, Miriam Margolyes, looking at burly lads, the sequestration of death, cannibals, Modernism, Sally Rooney, annihilation. This episode is the discussion about chapters 17 and 18 of Herman Melville's Moby-
It's time for an apology... In this episode we mention the character Billy Mitchell from Eastenders being played by numerous actors, when in fact - obviously - we meant Ben Mitchell. Thanks for sticking with us through t
Strap yourselves in for another chat about Herman Melville's Moby-Dick as we cover CLR James, medieval Welsh poetry, Melville writing Seinfeld, Ishmael being an intolerable prick, "Say it, Frenchy!", "I sound like a wank
The longest episode of The Whale Pod so far, as Leigh Jones and Peter Mitchell discuss Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. Covering only 14 pages of the novel, a lot of ground is covered, including (but not limited to)... Ishma
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