Episode 07: In Defense of Captain Hook

Peter Pan is never supposed to grow up, but Illinois State University professor Karen Coats says the character has grown over time from an ambivalent symbol of Victorian immaturity to a celebration of the all-American inner-child. Either way, Captain Hook got a raw deal. He told me himself over the phone. Featuring voice actor Erik Bergmann as a drunk-dialing Captain Hook and actress Lily Dorment reading from the J.M. Barrie book.

Transcript of In Defense of Captain Hook

MUSIC LIST

• The Poet by Sono Sanctus

• Mahler by Uri Caine

• Don't Hate Me by Epik High