What we offer

We have ten Series of podcasts to offer, each series containing short discussions helping to open up the beauties and insights of important works of literature.

Series 1: Dante’s Inferno

Series 2: Shakespeare’s Tempest

Series 3: Stevenson’s Fables

Series 4: Dante’s Purgatorio

Series 5: Stevenson’s “Christmas Sermon”

Series 6: Dante’s Paradiso

Series 7: Unity in Diversity in Dante’s Divine Comedy

Series 8: Henry David Thoreau

Series 9: Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Series 10: Whitman’s “Song of Myself"

About me

Robert-Louis Abrahamson, the host of the Evening under Lamplight Podcasts, is an Emeritus Professor of English and a radio broadcaster whose show, Evening under Lamplight, has been appearing on Cambridge 105 Radio since 2008. Born in Philadelphia, studying at Amherst College, University of Edinburgh and Rutgers University, he lives in the market town of Oundle, not too far from Cambridge, where he is the chairman of the Cambridge Dickens Fellowship. He has given talks and published articles on Dante and on his namesake Robert Louis Stevenson, and his edition of Stevenson’s Fables, with his added commentaries (Aesop in the Fog) is available at https://thelamplightpress.com/aesop .

He produces these podcasts to share his passion for the literature, and hopes that the podcasts will interest you, and stimulate you to new insights and new reading.

Subscribe to Evening under Lamplight Podcasts 13: Walt Whitman's Civil Wa

Series 13 presents the vivid and moving accounts Whitman wrote about his visits to wounded and dying soldiers during the final years of the American Civil War, supplemented with poems from his "Drum Taps" series.

People

RLA

@eveningunderlamplight

From Philadelphia through Edinburgh to East Anglia, always sharing my literary passions. Publishing these podcasts has proved an especially effective way to sharing, both a pleasure to me and a delight to listeners (so I'm told!).