Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is the subject of this episode of Backlisted. Dr Martin Shaw and Dr Laura Varnam (hwaet Laura!) join Andy and John to discuss this late 14th-century chivalric romance - or subversion thereof - written in Middle English alliterative verse, author unknown. We discuss the poem's chequered history and a variety of translations by Simon Armitage, J.R.R. Tolkien, Marie Borroff and Dr Shaw himself. We also take a look at some of the film, TV and radio adaptations of the poem, the most recent of which is The Green Knight (2021), starring Dev Patel. This show was recorded in front of a live audience at Foyles in Charing Cross Road, London, on 12th June 2024. Locklisted subscribers will be able to hear more Gawain chat next weekend, including some terrific contributions and questions from members of the audience. In other words, it's a bumper bonus Backlisted bonanza from the blokes and broads who brought you Beowulf. Bye! *Tickets are now on sale for our LIVE show in London on Wednesday July 17th where we will be discussing Endless Night by Agatha Christie, with guests Caroline Crampton and Andrew Male * To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops. * For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm *If you'd like to support the show and join in with the book chat, listen without adverts, receive the show early and get extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted *You can sign up to our free monthly newsletter here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Wow! Wow. Thanks very much everybody.
0:17.0	Thanks very much everybody.
0:18.0	Hello. Hello and welcome to Backlisted, the podcast that gives new life to old books.
0:29.0	Today you find us once again in the flesh on the sixth floor of foils a gaff that has been going great
0:38.8	guns since 1903.
0:41.1	I'm John Mitchinson, the publisher of Unbound, the website where readers crowd
0:45.2	from the books they really want to read. And I'm Andy Miller, the author of the Year of
0:48.8	Reading Dangerously. And today we are joined by two guests, one returning for the fifth time and one making their debut please welcome to the stage
0:57.4	Dame Laura Vanham and Sir Martin Shaw
1:06.7	What? Sir Martin Shaw. What everybody? Dame Laura is the lecturer in Old and Middle English Literature at University College Oxford.
1:11.7	Her academic publications include her 2018 book
1:14.3	The Church as Sacred Space in Middle English Literature and Culture and the co-edited
1:19.4	essay collection encountering the book of Marjorie Kemp.
1:23.0	She is also a poet and a collection of her Grendel's mother poems inspired by the old the English
1:28.3	epic Beowulf.
1:30.0	Wha!
1:31.0	What?
1:32.0	Will be published in Primus, will be published, it's like a crackerjack thing
1:36.0	that, every time you hear the word Beowulf.
1:39.0	What?
1:40.0	We'll be published in Primus, volume 7 by 9 Arches Press in August this year.
1:45.0	She previously appeared on a string of sinister backlisted Halloween episodes covering
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