This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Dinah Birch, Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool, to consider the work of Angela Thirkell, a kind of (but not really...) Anthony Trollope for the twentieth-century; the writer and audio documentarist Maria Margaronis considers the transformation of London’s Royal Court Theatre into a radical and moving “living newspaper”; plus, a library of the world’s literature that no censor can get to
‘Angela Thirkell: A writer’s life’ by Anne Hall
‘Living Newspaper’, Editions 6 and 7, Royal Court Theatre and royalcourttheatre.com
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