Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

Episodes

• On the Prose Style of Poets, part 1

  Episode 1 · 20:07
• On the Prose Style of Poets, part 2

  Episode 2 · 19:43
• On Dreams

  Episode 3 · 30:21
• On the Conversation of Authors

  Episode 4 · 38:52
• On the Same Subject Continued

  Episode 5 · 30:56
• On Reason and Imagination

  Episode 6 · 32:42
• On Application to Study

  Episode 7 · 32:59
• On Londoners and Country People, part 1

  Episode 8 · 20:11
• On Londoners and Country People, part 2

  Episode 9 · 16:20
• On the Spirit of Obligations

  Episode 10 · 30:31
• On the Old Age of Artists

  Episode 11 · 33:45
• On Envy (A Dialogue)

  Episode 12 · 37:48
• On Sitting for One's Picture

  Episode 13 · 27:58
• Whether Genius is Conscious of its Powers

  Episode 14 · 34:40
• On the Pleasure of Hating

  Episode 15 · 34:36
• On Dr. Spurzheim's Theory, part 1

  Episode 16 · 25:27
• On Dr. Spurzheim's Theory, part 2

  Episode 17 · 26:46
• On Egotism, part 1

  Episode 18 · 20:09
• On Egotism, part 2

  Episode 19 · 20:07
• Hot and Cold

  Episode 20 · 33:45
• The New School of Reform: a Dialogue Between a Rationalist and a Sentimentalist, part 1

  Episode 21 · 26:17
• The New School of Reform: a Dialogue Between a Rationalist and a Sentimentalist, part 2

  Episode 22 · 29:03
• On the Qualifications Necessary to Success in Life, part 1

  Episode 23 · 20:04
• On the Qualifications Necessary to Success in Life, part 2

  Episode 24 · 25:15
• On the Look of a Gentleman

  Episode 25 · 34:19
• On Reading Old Books

  Episode 26 · 31:12
• On Personal Character, part 1

  Episode 27 · 17:32
• On Personal Character, part 2

  Episode 28 · 17:41
• On People of Sense

  Episode 29 · 34:47
• On Antiquity

  Episode 30 · 32:23
• On the Difference Between Writing and Speaking, part 1

  Episode 31 · 22:00
• On the Difference Between Writing and Speaking, part 2

  Episode 32 · 27:54
• On a Portrait of an English Lady by Vandyke, part 1

  Episode 33 · 23:38
• On a Portrait of an English Lady by Vandyke, part 2

  Episode 34 · 35:27
• On Novelty and Familiarity, part 1

  Episode 35 · 24:32
• On Novelty and Familiarity, part 2

  Episode 36 · 25:48
• On Old English Writers and Speakers, part 1

  Episode 37 · 32:36
• On Old English Writers and Speakers, part 2

  Episode 38 · 14:52
• Madame Pasta and Mademoiselle Mars

  Episode 39 · 38:14
• Sir Walter Scott, Racine and Shakespeare

  Episode 40 · 33:58
• On Depth and Superficiality, part 1

  Episode 41 · 20:24
• On Depth and Superficiality, part 2

  Episode 42 · 30:54
• On Respectable People

  Episode 43 · 18:34
• On the Jealousy and the Spleen of Party, part 1

  Episode 44 · 18:35
• On the Jealousy and the Spleen of Party, part 2

  Episode 45 · 26:20