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An Odyssey for everyone
FromThe TLS Podcast
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Length:
47 minutes
Released:
Oct 10, 2018
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Podcast episode
Description
Mary Beard reflects on the peculiarities of Homer's best-loved, many-sided epic; Neel Mukherjee on the scandalous survival of the Indian caste system; following the recent party conferences, James O'Brien offers a wry overview of Britain's political messBooks: The Measure of Homer: The ancient reception of the Iliad and the Odyssey by Richard HunterAnts Among Elephants: An untouchable family and the making of modern India by Sujatha GidlaHow To Be Right ... in a World Gone Wrong by James O'Brien
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Released:
Oct 10, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard by M.R. James: The Times Literary Supplement - an occasional series of readings. The TLS turns to the dark side, finding stories within stories, eyes in the dark, guilty consciences and beasts in the woods – tales from M. R. James, Edith Wharton and Saki, read and... by The TLS Podcast