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Football and the modern Middle East

Football and the modern Middle East

FromThe TLS Podcast


Football and the modern Middle East

FromThe TLS Podcast

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Length:
49 minutes
Released:
May 31, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – TLS Politics editor Toby Lichtig speaks to Assaf Gavron, author of a fascinating essay on the role of football in the politics of the Middle East, and runs us through a number of pieces from this week’s issue on the legacy of the Six-Day War, 60 years on; "No wild animal plays a more significant or ambivalent role in the imaginings of the British than the fox", so says Tom Holland, who joins us to consider this curiously divisive beast; fresh from a marathon production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, opera critic Guy Dammann explains the importance of this towering work of music and drama
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Released:
May 31, 2017
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