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CR Episode 346: Billy Budd, Part I
02 November 2026

CR Episode 346: Billy Budd, Part I

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The panel discusses the first half of Melville's unfinished masterpiece, Billy Budd, with close attention to the allegorical narrative framework and the characterisation of the childlike Billy Budd and his antithesis, the naturally depraved John Claggart.
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