This week, Alex Clark and Lucy Dallas explore the rise to prominence of Volodymyr Zelensky, the satirical stand-up turned president and war leader; and blow the cobwebs off the world’s rarest medieval manuscripts.
'The Zelensky Effect' by Olga Onuch and Henry E Hale
'Zelensky: Ukraine’s president and his country' by Steven Derix with Marina Shelkunova, translated by Brent Annable
'The Fight of Our Lives: My time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s battle for democracy, and what it means for the world' by Iuliia Mendel, translated by Madeline G Levine
'Zelensky: A biography' by Serhii Rudenko, translated by Michael M Naydan and Alla Perminova
'The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club' by Christopher de Hamel
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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