Episode 285: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, “Mowgli’s Brothers”
The Literary Life Podcast
Angelina Stanford
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Today on The Literary Life podcast, we begin a new series of episodes on The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling with our hosts Angelina Stanford, Cindy Rollins, and Thomas Banks! After sharing their commonplace quotes, each of them talks about their own reading histories with Rudyard Kipling’s work. Thomas gives us some biographical information about Kipling and sets up the literary period in which he wrote. They then begin talking about the structure and form of this book as it is set up as a series of short stories as beast fables. Angelina shares some of the mythic and fairy tale elements she noticed while reading this first story, “Mowgli’s Brothers.” They also discuss some of the challenges we face reading stories written in a different time and place without imposing our current views on all the literature of the period.
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| 0:00.0 | This is not just another book chat podcast. |
| 0:21.6 | Lifelong reader Cindy Rollins joins teachers Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks for an ongoing conversation about the skill and art of reading well. |
| 0:32.6 | Explore the lost intellectual tradition and discover how to fully enter end to the great works of literature. |
| 0:40.2 | Learn what books mean while delighting in the sheer joy of imagination. Each week, we will rescue |
| 0:47.1 | story from the ivory tower and bring it to your couch, your kitchen, and your commute. The literary life is for everyone because in the |
| 0:55.9 | words of Stratford Caldecott, to be enchanted by story is to be granted a deeper insight into |
| 1:02.2 | reality. Join us for an ever-unfolding discussion of how stories will save the world. |
| 1:09.7 | This is the Literary Life Podcast. |
| 1:30.4 | Welcome to the Literary Life Podcast. I'm Angelina Stanford, and I am here with my life partner in crime, the increasingly |
| 1:36.5 | transparent, Mr. Banks. |
| 1:38.5 | Thoroughly transparent. |
| 1:39.5 | Thoroughly transparent. |
| 1:41.7 | And we are today in the presence of someone who is the opposite of transparent. Well, maybe, maybe because she has a glow. There's a, she's not transparent. What's the word I'm looking for? That she's radiant, the radiance. I feel like I'm Charlotte. I do have a window behind me shining, so it does give me some radio. |
| 2:01.6 | That's right. |
| 2:02.5 | If I wasn't building up the suspense enough, you heard her voice. |
| 2:06.1 | Today marks the return of the blonde bombshell herself, the fairer faucet of Charlotte |
| 2:11.9 | Mason, Cindy, Beach Girl, Rollins. |
| 2:16.0 | I feel like now, are you ready to rumble with that introduction? |
| 2:20.3 | Yes, I am. |
| 2:21.3 | And I'm actually considering just going gray. |
| 2:23.9 | So I may be something else. |
| 2:26.6 | You heard it here first, folks. |
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