Oralotium podcast

Welcome! In this intro episode I explain the two main reasons why I make this podcast. You can find me on Instagram and Facebook at oralotium & patreon.com/Oralotium

In this project's first attempt at recording an episode I discuss Shelley's famous essay, A Defence of Poetry. The difference between reason and imagination; the relationship between civility and imagination; the relationship between poetry and civilisation, to name just a few of the topics from the essay that I discuss. I made this audio in October 2022, three months before I launched this project. At the time of recording I wasn't sure if this recording was going to be just a rough first draught or an actual presentable recording, but you have to start somewhere and so this is how this project started. The next episode about Ivan Illich's book is my first real episode, so if you check out this trial episode first don't judge this project based on this audio alone 😅 You can find me on Instagram @ oralotium and if you like this episode, or any other episodes, and would like to show support or appreciation, then you could buy me a drink over on buy-me-a-coffee or Patreon, just search Oralotium there, cheers ✌️🙏 Likes, shares and comments always welcome on Instagram

I discuss this essay by the Renaissance poet, Sir Philip Sidney. The history of poetry; why was poetry attacked in Elizabethan England? what is the use of poetry? Did Philip Sidney nearly have a fatal duel with Shakespeare? Just some of the topics discussed in this episode. You can find me on Instagram. If you like this episode, or any other episodes, and would like to show support or appreciation, then you could buy me a drink over on Patreon, just search Oralotium there, cheers ✌️🙏 follow on Instagram: Oralotium

In a podcast series that is, so far, all about discussing books and essays, I made an episode where I read an essay live and comment on it as I read. A little experiment. An unrehearsed rereading of an essay that I first read years ago by Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American transcendentalist. The essay is about how all the greats were great because they thought for themselves, they were self-reliant, independent thinkers. It was a great read for me when I first read it in my mid-twenties. Hope you may find it interesting also. Another long episode, but if it seems too long perhaps you could divide it up into 2 one hour sections. This essay is in the public domain and is available to read online for free.If you like this episode, or any other episodes, and would like to show support or appreciation, then you could buy me a drink over on Patreon, just search Oralotium there, cheers ✌️🙏 follow on Instagram: Oralotium

A companion to the previous episode. How does Ralph Waldo Emerson, a preacher of self-reliance and individualism, regard friendship? A live reading with commentary of an essay by Emerson that I have never read before. This essay is in the public domain.If you like this episode, or any other episodes, and would like to show support or appreciation, then you could buy me a drink over on Patreon, just search Oralotium there, cheers ✌️🙏 follow on Instagram: Oralotium

In this episode I read out a short story that I wrote myself, titled, On the Inside. It is very much so in the autofiction genre. Autofiction, short for autobiographical fiction, is a genre of literature that combines elements of autobiography and fiction. Hope you like it!If you do like this episode, or any other episodes, and would like to show support or appreciation, then you could buy me a drink over on Patreon, just search Oralotium there, cheers ✌️🙏 follow on Instagram: Oralotium

In this episode I discuss, what I believe to be, the little known role that Ireland played in how Europe started to rebuild itself after the decline of the Roman empire. It's a tour around the chain of events that helped preserve and rebuild western civilization during the early Dark Ages, from Cassiodorus to Colombanus.If you like this episode, or any other episodes, and would like to show support or appreciation, then you could buy me a drink over on Patreon, just search Oralotium there, cheers ✌️🙏 Instagram: Oralotium Ireland the land of saints and scholarsHow the Irish Saved CivilizationSaint Patrick

In this episode I take up where I left off in the last episode and gallop through a thousand years of history. Pointing out what I think are some of the main figures who helped develop the European mind up until the Italian Renaissance. How did Europe pick itself back up after the decline of the Roman Empire? Here is the story, in broad strokes. If you like this episode, or any other episodes, and would like to show support or appreciation, then you could buy me a drink over on Patreon, just search Oralotium there, cheers ✌️🙏 follow on Instagram: Oralotium