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FIDO95

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2:41p, 5/28/26

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Malcolm Guite:

Wow. I found the below podcast because I'm a sucker for any King Arthur and knights (I already ordered the book Guite recently released recently after listening to the first 20 minutes; Total impulse purchase).

I had not heard of him before but wiki states he is "an English poet, singer-songwriter, Anglican priest, and academic. I could listen to a man like this for hours. If you enjoy stories of King Arthur and its interconnected threads with Christianity, do yourself a favor and listen to the story that makes up the first 20 minutes:

ETA: When you compare this man with modern day "academics", it saddens me to think of what we have lost at our once great institutions.

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In reply to FIDO95 • 3:18p, 5/28/26

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Check out his show with Martin Shaw if you enjoyed Guite. One of the two, Shaw tells him a fairy tale and it's great. Shaw and Guite run in the same circles and are very popular in our bubble. Lots of storytellers seeking to re-enchant the world.

Edit: we've been waiting to get his King Arthur book since it was announced last year. He's solid.

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6:59p, 5/28/26

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"King Arthur: he didn't exist. That's the headline.
Britain's most famous King turns out to be fictional. That's putting it politely. Gandolf is fiction. Arthur is a lie. Some people will say that he still might have existed.. but the sort of person they say he might've been so far removed from King Arthur in any of the forms that we might understand him but it feels like they are just saying he still didn't exist but just in a different way.

It's like they're saying oh yeah, there was a real Superman, but he didn't have any superpowers and he dressed as a bat."

- David Mitchell "Unruly"

That's pretty good, but you should really hear the intro to King Cnut.

Great tongue in cheek book on British monarchs. I think of this opening monologue every time I hear King Arthur now.

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