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Referenced in connection with the Battle of Mylae, with the hosts quoting the line 'Stetson, you who were with me in the ships at Mylae' and discussing why Eliot may have chosen this particular battle as a reference to mass slaughter.

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Described as 'probably the single most influential poem written in English of the 20th century' and discussed in relation to the Holy Grail mythology and Jesse Weston's influence on it.

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Mentioned as one of the landmark works of 1922 modernism, quoted with 'these fragments I shored against my ruin'

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Discussed as the other landmark literary work of 1922, described as 'the greatest poem in English written in the 20th century,' published in October in The Criterion magazine

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Mentioned in connection with 1922 and the description of people crossing London Bridge, referenced when discussing the atmosphere of the City of London

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Referenced when discussing how T.S. Eliot visited Buckingham Palace and read The Waste Land to the royal family, who all got the giggles during the reading

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Discussed in connection with Little Gidding, comparing Eliot's imagery of air raids and the blowing of horns to similar imagery in Lord of the Rings

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Tom quotes from 'Little Gidding,' which he identifies as 'the last of the four quartets' by T.S. Eliot, in the introduction discussing churches and history

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Specifically quoted passage about a ghostly figure during an air raid, compared to Tolkien's description of the Nazgul attack and the horns of Rohan