Video: https://youtu.be/2B1U-Lqn4xE

• The Historical Deaths of Arthur
• The First Literary Death of Arthur: Geoffrey of Monmouth
• Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King
• Conclusion of The Deaths of Arthur

The primary reason the conclusion took so long to come out was simply that I was ambushed by report card season (my least favourite time as a teacher!), but a secondary reason was that the experience of putting together the podcast as podcast, as an extended reflection on the subjects I touched on (or, in Tennyson’s case, had to skip over) in my Doxacon talk, got me thinking a lot about the podcast as a medium, how I might be able to use the medium more effectively in the future, some of the obvious shortcomings of how I ended up using it over this first “season”, and what extended conclusions I might now draw from these extended reflections. In the end, I decided to keep it simple and to stick fairly closely to my original vision for both the podcast and my conclusion, despite the obvious shortcomings, in the hopes that the work will still be somewhat worth listening to on its own and that, rather than getting too “meta” by including my reflections on podcasting in the podcast, I may be able to simply apply some of the lessons learned in future episodes of the podcast.

My hope for the next “season” of the podcast is that the episodes will be more episodic, more experimental, shorter, and better planned and produced – but we’ll have to wait and see whether any of that actually comes to pass! “The best-laid plans o’ mice an’ men… an’ a’ that!” In the meantime, if anyone who actually listens to the podcast has any feedback they’d like to give me, positive or negative, privately or publicly, I’d love to hear from you via the comment section below. (If you don’t want your feedback to be published, just let me know!)

While I do mention, part-way through the podcast, that ignorance is a perfectly good excuse, given the vast array of knowledge that is out there – and that what is less excusable is remaining ignorant, given the general availability of knowledge, I might not have managed to avoid my own slightly polemical tendencies…

At any rate, the first video podcast episode also means that the Geek Orthodox YouTube Channel is now up, which I hope to use for any content where having a visual element might significantly enhance or supplement the information and/or ideas being presented!