CR Episode 132: Idylls of the King, Part V

Alfred Tennyson with Book, by Julia Margaret Cameron
Alfred Tennyson with Book, by Julia Margaret Cameron

Download Link: Released on 27 June 2022

The panel reads the last-composed of the Idylls, “Balin and Balan”, with attention to the tale’s depiction of the conflict between the Old Order and the New Order, the origin and proliferation of rumour and scandal, and the use of shadow as metaphor.