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Night Waves - Mandarin Finnegans Wake

Night Waves - Mandarin Finnegans Wake

FromArts & Ideas


Night Waves - Mandarin Finnegans Wake

FromArts & Ideas

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Length:
45 minutes
Released:
Feb 28, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Samira Ahmed examines why James Joyce's experimental and 'difficult' work Finnegans Wake has been a surprise hit in China. Travel writer Sara Wheeler discusses her new book, 'O my America!’, which tells the story of six remarkable women who fled nineteenth-century England to reinvent themselves in the USA. Historian Justin Champion, sociologist Eileen Barker and theologian Martin Palmer join Samira to discuss why we are so obsessed with the idea of the end of the world. And we look at an unlikely cultural movement which has flourished in post 9/11 America - Muslim comedy.
Released:
Feb 28, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode

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