Gulliver's travels
Jonathan Swift, a man of many contradictions, is considered the greatest satirist in the English language. This program intertwines a critical examination of Gulliver’s Travels and "A Modest Proposal" with incisive commentary on the author’s lif...
The Republic: Plato’s Utopia
This program scrutinizes The Republic, a work that has intrigued and infuriated for thousands of years. Was Plato’s plan for an ideal city—a place where philosophers are rulers and wisdom is the cornerstone of society—a blueprint, a satire, or...
All Quiet on the Western Front
Composed of scholarly commentary, film clips, readings, reenactments, and archival materials, this program thoroughly analyzes Erich Maria Remarque’s international best-seller All Quiet on the Western Front. Remarque biographers Julie Gilbert and ...
The interpretation of dreams
Few figures have had so decisive an influence on modern cultural history as Sigmund Freud, psychology's grand theorist - yet few figures have also inspired such sustained controversy and intense debate. In this program, Freud historian Peter Swales;...