World War Two

Season 0, Episode 259

Episode Title: In the darkness of 1942/2021: Excelsior!

Air Date: 2021-12-27

Overview:

The 1841 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Excelsior” has both been parodied endlessly, and lambasted both for being Panglossian and misanthropic. We just think that striving onwards and upwards when facing impossible odds anyway is a really healthy attitude.