{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/60c1f183fb410600123a96ef/62f374844c87a60012c0052d?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Episode 26 - Crime and Punishment","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/60c1f183fb410600123a96ef/1625855109134-984fd45d7e7f674b153560511f959cb0.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our Season 3 premiere and twenty-sixth episode, we read one of the world's (apparently) Most Boring Classics™ and take our first foray into Russian literature with Fyodor Dostoevsky's <em>Crime and Punishment </em>(1866). Abby gives some train trivia, Daniel reveals a fetish for clerks, and everyone faints forever.</p><p><br></p><p>Cover art © Catherine Wu.</p><p><br></p><p>Episode theme: Fëdor Shalyapin, 'Ey, ukhnem!'</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Abigail Boucher and Daniel Jenkin-Smith"}