Esme Rhodes: Esme Rhodes is an actress featuring herein as Eloise Weaver. She recently graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in History. Recent credits include 'Skeleton Crew' at the Edinburgh Fringe (2024), the Weston Library's 'A New Power: Photography in Britain 1800-1850' (2023), and 'Having the Last Word' (2024).
Judith Bunting: Judith Bunting is a screenwriter, with a background as a writer, director, and producer of award-winning content for TV and VOD.
Alice Priscilla Lyle Oswald: Alice Oswald is a British poet. She was trained as a classicist at New College, University of Oxford. In 2019, she became the first woman to be appointed as Oxford University Professor of Poetry, a four-year tenure.
Edmund Evans: Ed Evans is a Head Porter at St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford
Writers:
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Gerard Manley Hopkins is considered to be one of the greatest poets of the Victorian era. Hopkins studied classics at Balliol College, Oxford from 1863–1867, where invented his own eccentric metre, known as sprung rhythm.
J.R.R. Tolkien: J.R.R. Tolkien was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. This episode features his little-known poetry, published for the first time in Oxford, and written in Blackwell’s Bookshop.
April Elisabeth Pawar: April Pawar is the Founder of the Oxford Writers’ House. She graduated from St. Anne’s College, Oxford in 2016 with a DPhil in English Literature.
Charlee Wedderburn-Bolton: Charllee Wedderburn-Bolton reads English Literature at Worcestor College, Oxford.
Joy Chang: Joy Change reads English Literature at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford.
Interviewed Expert:
Rita Ricketts: Rita Ricketts is the visiting Bodleian Blackwell Fellow in Oxford. She was one of the recipients of the 2022 European Women’s Leadership Award. Her time is divided between the UK and NZ, where she tries to combine her work with entertaining a tribe of grandchildren.
