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Hardy's London & the modern Middle East
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Length:
48 minutes
Released:
Sep 21, 2016
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Podcast episode
Description
With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – Mark Ford on Thomas Hardy's unlikely London romance; Hirsh Sawhney on Aravind Adiga's captivating new novel and his messy portrait of India; to tie in with a special run of features on the Middle East, TLS editors Robert Irwin and Toby Lichtig discuss the challenges, historical and present, facing the region; and finally, Mark Ford reads Thomas Hardy's poem "Coming Up Oxford Street: Evening", from 1872.
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Sep 21, 2016
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Titles in the series (100)
Robert Herrick and John Evelyn: Michael Caines reads a selection of verses by the seventeenth-century poet Robert Herrick, as well as a remarkable and little-known elegy by the diarist John Evelyn. Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and... by The TLS Podcast