Illustrated Men
53m
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The TLS Podcast
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This week, Suzi Feay sizes up the public intellectuals, deadbeat aristocrats, hedonistic oligarchs and hardened street soldiers of Andrew O'Hagan's panoramic new novel; and Michael Caines on the prolific and endlessly imaginative world of Ray Bradbury.
'Caledonian Road', by Andrew O'Hagan
'Remembrance: Selected Correspondence of Ray Bradbury', edited by Jonathan R. Eller
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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