263: The Ballad of the White Horse and Some Dudes Who Sing

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

We revisit a book we've done an episode on already. But here's the thing, folks: the book is so dang good, and Graeme walks us through the intricacies of a specific scene in this one. And it's good. Soooooo good. In my humble opinion.

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to classical stuff you should know. We are back in the saddle and we're a podcast
0:13.5	about old stuff and that's pretty much all you need to know. My name is AJ Hennonberg. I'm here
0:18.8	with Graham Donaldson. Hello. And Thomas Magby.
0:20.9	Hi.
0:21.3	And today we're talking about something that I hope I understand the next time Graham describes
0:25.4	it because he's had a whole bunch of words all strung together.
0:28.1	Yes.
0:31.7	Well, we're doing a book.
0:32.2	It's just like a, you know, like a scramble of academic buzzwords.
0:37.0	Good.
0:37.4	Yeah.
0:37.5	That's great.
0:37.8	That's what we do.
0:39.9	Um, today we are, I'm talking about a book that we have talked about in the podcast a long
0:45.3	time ago.
0:46.5	Uh, it's one of G.K.
0:48.2	Chesterton's, uh, books and it's called the Ballad of the White Horse.
0:51.9	And what G.K.
0:52.7	Chesterton does is this is a big, it's a ballad, so it's a poem.
0:56.3	And he takes a story from sort of classical Christian mythology in England.
1:05.0	So, like, he talks about Alexander, sorry, Alfred the Great, the only English king to have the
1:10.1	moniker the Great.
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