Uploaded October 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Music recommended:
- Chopin’s 3rd piano sonata (played by Evgeny Kissin): youtube.com/watch?v=xGJxmCOPFVM
- Schumann’s Piano Quartet (played by Notos Quartet): youtube.com/watch?v=pkyIasXviaQ
- Berlioz’s Requiem, “Sanctus” (performed by Luciano Pavarotti): youtube.com/watch?v=ez25Koee-Jw
- Berlioz’s Les Troyens (performed by Joyce DiDonato and Michael Spyres): youtube.com/watch?v=9Z1kpMcStMY
- Schubert’s “Gretchen am Spinnrade” (performed by Jessye Norman): youtube.com/watch?v=GeKgNMKcUng
- Schubert’s “Du bist die ruh” (performed by Renee Fleming): youtube.com/watch?v=MCTKTrJD8sg
- Schubert’s 21st Piano Sonata (performed by Mitsuko Uchida): youtube.com/watch?v=l7cc2FD06FM

Books discussed:
- The Lives of the Great Composers, by Harold Schonberg
- The Histories, by Herodotus (translated with an introduction by Robin Waterfield)
- The Oxford Anthology of African American Poetry, edited by Arnold Rampersad
- John Brown, Abolitionist, by David S. Reynolds

Films discussed:
- The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (dir: Kenji Mizoguchi)
- Three Colors: White (dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski)
- Three Colors: Red (dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski)
- The Witch (dir: Robert Egger)
- The Painted Bird (dir: Václav Marhoul)
- Andrei Rublev (dir: Andrei Tarkovsky)
- Marketa Lazarová (dir: František Vláčil)
- Late Spring (dir: Yasujiro Ozu)
- The Emigrants (dir: Jan Troell)
- The New Land (dir: Jan Troell)
- Werckmeister Harmonies (dir: Bela Tarr)
- The Story of Oharu (dir: Kenji Mizoguchi)

Jack @The Rambling Raconteur’s announcement video for his Here Lies Herodotus read-along: youtube.com/watch?v=DB-dI4TN56s&t=2s









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