{"podcast":{"title":"The Culture We Deserve","slug":"the-culture-we-deserve-6690403","podcast_index_feed_id":6690403,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/491441/rss","website_url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/491441","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/e/1/a/b/e1ab3b34a2749d39d959afa2a1bf1c87/Podcast_Logo-20231026-8flxd8qs67.jpg","author":"Jessa Crispin","episode_count":129,"summary":"Hosted by Jessa Crispin, The Culture We Deserve covers the state of the arts.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T02:18:26.606280+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-culture-we-deserve-6690403"},"episode":{"title":"Revolution and Ruin: George Eliot's Felix Holt: The Radical","slug":"revolution-and-ruin-george-eliot-s-felix-holt-the-radical","published_at":"2025-12-25T14:01:47+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-culture-we-deserve-6690403/revolution-and-ruin-george-eliot-s-felix-holt-the-radical","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-culture-we-deserve-6690403","url":"https://08b5f6c4-c5fc-4bcc-a25b-73b360099d87.libsyn.com/revolution-and-ruin-george-eliots-felix-holt-the-radical","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/08b5f6c4-c5fc-4bcc-a25b-73b360099d87/Rev_RuinTCWD8_Eliot.mp3?dest-id=4196741","summary":"A very special Christmas treat for our listeners. Joseph and Jessa discuss George Eliot's Felix Holt: The Radical, which asks the very important question: is the socialist's primary task to yell at people and tell them they are wrong about everything? Set in the 1830s after political reform has granted voting rights to new -- but still very limited -- populations, a small English market town deals with the tumult that follows. A powerfully rich heir returns to stand for public office as \"a radical,\" a young man decides to devote himself to the bettering of the working classes by telling them they are all ignorant drunks, and a young woman must decide which one of these weirdos to marry. But there is also a strange paternity case and a power struggle over an estate, a satirical storyline about the foolishness of patriarchal lineage, and a few good jokes about atheists. Join the discussion: http://theculturewedeserve.substack.com","meta_description":"A very special Christmas treat for our listeners. Joseph and Jessa discuss George Eliot's Felix Holt: The Radical, which asks the very important question:…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7161,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-culture-we-deserve-6690403/episodes/revolution-and-ruin-george-eliot-s-felix-holt-the-radical/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-culture-we-deserve-6690403/revolution-and-ruin-george-eliot-s-felix-holt-the-radical.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}