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Beowulf Live: Reclaiming the Classics on WPR

November 18, 2007

We got to listen to Grendel gorging flesh and griding bone in the mini-van on the way home from church today…

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Tagged With: Austen, Beowulf, Classics, Dick Ringler, Jane Austen, Jim Flemming, Michael Dirda, Tolstoy, Wisconsin Public Radio
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