The Once and Future King
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Sep 15, 2026
Vas ChristodoulouHOST
So not to get too Hollywood about it, but it's not the Arthur we think we know.
Amy JeffsGUEST
[laughs] No, so I- my, I guess my, my main exposure to Arthur in popular culture was Disney's Sword and the Stone, based on T.H. White's The Once and Future King, and that has this high medieval, late medieval aesthetic, the jousts and tournaments and that sort of thing.
Amy JeffsGUEST
It also says daft things like King of England, which is completely ridiculous, because he's a King of Britons.
Vas ChristodoulouHOST
All right, so tri- triggering every medievalist listening to this now.
David DowningGUEST
What a great, concise review.
David DowningGUEST
And then for someone he didn't like, he didn't like The Once and Future King.
David DowningGUEST
He didn't like all the anachronisms.
David DowningGUEST
And he said, this book is the product of a sad, shabby little mind.
Sean Philip CooperHOST
Well, thank you so much.
Sean Philip CooperHOST
Well, listeners, we're done with The Once and Future King.
Sean Philip CooperHOST
And so instead of moving forward from T.H. White, and that would take us really to the middle of the 21st century, we're going to go all the way back to the very beginning of English letters, one of the earliest works in what can be demonstrably called English.
Sean Philip CooperHOST
It's Anglo-Saxon, but we're going to look at Beowulf.
Jeff O'NeillHOST
...
Jeff O'NeillHOST
The Once and Future King.
Jeff O'NeillHOST
Like there-
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
Mm-hmm
Andy LarsonHOST
So, J.A., it's all about King Arthur this week, and I'm sure that deals with King Arthur a little bit, but what was that reading from?
J.A. ScottHOST
That is The Once and Future King by T.H. White, of course.
J.A. ScottHOST
Ooh.
Chad SmithHOST
There you go.
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Mikey WoodGUEST
I'm going to go ahead and recommend, and this is daunting, and it's going to take some work for you guys, but I do recommend it.
Mikey WoodGUEST
Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Mallory, which is a telling of the Arthur legend in incredible detail, written in Old English, fantastic.
Mikey WoodGUEST
500 to a thousand pages depending upon what version you get so it's it it's something and and i just happen to have this this was gifted to me by one of my english teachers in high school hard covering gold leaf with illustrations by uh the british illustrator aubrey beardsley and it is as ferris bueller says so choice if you have the means i do recommend picking one up because the arthur legend is pieced together from a thousand different things But if that's not your speed and you want something a little lighter, go with The Once and Future King and its sequel-ish The Book of Merlin.
Mikey WoodGUEST
Much lighter, funnier Disney movies based off the first half of it.
Mary JonesHOST
I don't think so.
Mary JonesHOST
Well, then, without any further ado, this is my presentation, The Once and Future King, Pagan Themes in Arthurian Cinema.
Dennis LinggHOST
Cool.
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Mary JonesHOST
I run the Celtic Literature Collective website.
Mary JonesHOST
So anyway, now that I've given that whole tedious introduction...
Mary JonesHOST
Let's get started with The Once and Future King, Paganism and Arthurian Cinema.
Mary JonesHOST
All right, so obviously the stories of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table have been a fertile wellspring for art, literature, and film for over 8,000 years, stretching as far back as ancient Welsh bards all the way to now in the 21st century.
Anthony GraftonGUEST
I was given a couple of books which really perverted my mind.
Anthony GraftonGUEST
One of them was T.H. White's Once and Future King, which of course is perhaps the greatest portrayal of a magician in fiction.
Anthony GraftonGUEST
But it was also just such a marvelous book.
Anthony GraftonGUEST
From that moment on, I understood very little of it, but I knew I was fascinated by the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, antiquity, and by these people who seemed to have power.
Anthony GraftonGUEST
I was given a couple of books which really perverted my mind.
Anthony GraftonGUEST
One of them was T.H. White's Once and Future King, which of course is perhaps the greatest portrayal of a magician in fiction.
Anthony GraftonGUEST
But it was also just such a marvelous book.
Anthony GraftonGUEST
From that moment on, I understood very little of it, but I knew I was fascinated by the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, antiquity, and by these people who seemed to have power.
Anthony GraftonGUEST
I was given a couple of books which really perverted my mind.
Anthony GraftonGUEST
One of them was T.H. White's Once and Future King, which of course is perhaps the greatest portrayal of a magician in fiction.
Anthony GraftonGUEST
But it was also just such a marvelous book.
Anthony GraftonGUEST
From that moment on, I understood very little of it, but I knew I was fascinated by the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, antiquity, and by these people who seemed to have power.
Brian EdwardsHOST
Like I, I put down here the prototypical JRPG story, or just kind of the prototypical story.
Brian EdwardsHOST
I mean, it calls back to The Once and Future King.
Brian EdwardsHOST
Um, T.H. White I think wrote that.
Brian EdwardsHOST
I, I was trying to sound smart there, Leah.
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