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Sep 2024
35m 9s

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

PodcastOne | Rabia Chaudry
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This week, we examine Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem about a strange voyage as told by an ancient mariner to a man on the street. It starts of as amusing, but then grows darker...


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