A Cunningcast Christmas treat: today Tony is reading his favourite poem ‘Goblin Market’ by Christina Rossetti, an often-overlooked member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and he's discussing the context and history of Rossetti’s iconic work with Madeleine Callaghan, Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield. In his electrifying reading, Tony captures all the magic and strangeness of ‘Goblin Market’, which is set in a fairy-tale world where a fraught encounter takes place between the two sisters Laura and Lizzie and a band of sinister goblin merchants who tempt Laura with their ‘forbidden fruits’. Can Lizzie save her sister from the evil Goblin’s temptations? Hosted by Sir Tony Robinson X | Instagram With Madeleine Callaghan, Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield. Author of ‘Shelley’s Living Artistry: Letters, Poems, Plays’ (2017) and ‘The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley’ (2019) published by Anthem Press. Her latest book, ‘Eternity in British Romantic Poetry’ (Liverpool University Press), came out in June 2022. www.sheffield.ac.uk/english/people/academic-staff/madeleine-callaghan Credits:    Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald X @melissafitzg   Executive Producer: Dominic de Terville   Cover Art: The Brightside   A Zinc Media Group production   Follow:   X @cunningcastpod   Instagram @cunningcastpod   If you enjoyed my podcast, please leave us a rating or review.   Thank you, Love Tony x Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.