Bust out your finest couture and your favourite cauldrons...this week, we are going full witch with a comparative episode of Rosalie Ham's The Dressmaker and Arthur Miller's The Crucible. We get right into small-town suspicion, reputation, herbal tea and the power of the angry/crazy female. This one was a blast to make and we hope you love it just as much. Special thanks to Ben of The English Lab for being our fabulous guest! 

What does it mean to be colonised? Moreover, what does it mean for a whole way of life to disappear beneath the ideals of foreigners? This week, we try our best to answer these big questions as we talk China Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Yes -  the writer in whose company the prison walls fell down. This text is so beautiful and complex - it gave voice to Igbo culture in a time when Western literary canon wrote off all colonised people as obscure and uncivilised and for this, we are eternally grateful. It was our honour to analyse such an exceptional text and we hope you love it too. 

Get pumped: It's time to Eu-RIP-ides into some Greek tragedy this week! Assisted by the lovely Laura of @educatinglaura - a powerhouse of knowledge on the subject, we are diving into Euripides' Women of Troy. This is a beautiful, tragic, sometimes gut wrenching read and we can't wait to share it with you. 

Our first comparative episode, this is a pairing made in heaven. Delve into a brilliant pair of feminist inversions of literary canon where women take centre-stage after centuries of being sidelined. You can probably see why we got excited by this one. It also features the incredible Neha Sharma - ex-VCE student, writing extraordinaire and Atwood superfan - we'll explain why ; ) 

Hands-down one of the most beautiful and lusciously written books we've ever read, this Pulitzer Prize-Winner had us from page one. We deconstruct whether Nazi soldiers are deserving of forgiveness, debate the meaning of 'entropy'  and admit our long-suppressed desire to be old, sassy and French in the 1940s. Hopefully this episode helps you to  'see the light' on how incredible this text really is. 

In light of the horrifying and utterly unacceptable displays of police brutality and white supremacy we have seen over the past week, this episode is a little bit different. We are departing from the VCE syllabus for an exploration of Maya Angelou's 'Caged Bird' which, in our opinion, really encapsulates the division that white privilege and historic oppression create in our society. Black Lives Matter and literature is one of the greatest means we have of understanding the experiences of those who are suffering injustice right now. If you aren't listing to this one on the run, we'd highly recommend you google the poem and read along with us. 

Sylvia Plath's Ariel, written just before her untimely death, is a collection of poetry like no other. Her works express the anger, wonder and struggle of being a female artist in a time when repression and dissatisfaction was the norm - and we love her for it. Dive into this incredible work with us as we deconstruct the language, history and intense emotion underpinning it.  Follow us on Instagram @solittletime.podcast !! 

Bust out your bonnets and brush up your Collin Firth impersonations, because this episode deconstructs the Regency Period magical masterpiece that is Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice! Featuring insights from the incredible Jan Bailey, press play to learn about snobbery, country mansions and why Disney's Frozen is the Aldi version of Jane and Lizzy.  

This week's deep dive is into Alfred Hitchcock's suspenseful masterpiece Rear Window - featuring the first-hand VCE experience of the incredible Ben Harms plus lots of Grace Kelly fan-girling. This film makes not being able to leave the house sound a whole lot more exciting than we thought: maybe we''ll catch a murderer while self isolating too? 

Delve into Joan London's pandemic-themed masterpiece with us as we get overly emotional over polio survivors and war poetry. Yes, we know it feels all too real right now given the current situation. No, we will not let it ruin the book ok?