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'We should all be interested in pigeons...'
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48 minutes
Released:
Aug 21, 2019
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Podcast episode
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What kind of son was Philip Larkin? The TLS's poetry editor Alan Jenkins finds insight in some of the 4,000-odd letters and postcards the poet sent home to his "Mop" and "Pop"; Helen Macdonald, the author of H is for Hawk, tells us more than we could ever hope to know about pigeons and pigeon fanciers; Norma Clarke considers the internet artist Cold War Steve, whose ‘furious absurdism’ has won him some 192.8K Twitter followers, and ponders connections with the eighteenth-century satires of Hogarth and GillrayLetters Home, 1936–1977, by Philip Larkin, edited by James BoothHoming: On pigeons, dwellings, and why we return, by Jon Day Cold War Steve Presents...The Festival of Brexit, by Cold War Steve
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Released:
Aug 21, 2019
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Titles in the series (100)
Byron: In the latest episode of TLS Voices, Michael Caines and Roz Dineen celebrate a selection of Byron's Letters and Journals. Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. by The TLS Podcast