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Refreshingly unfettered: LRB Podcast's Close Readings on Patricia Highsmith

10 April 2021

9:00 AM

10 April 2021

9:00 AM

Archive on 4: A Writer and His Country — John le Carré Across Six Decades

BBC Radio 4

LRB: Close Readings — on Patricia Highsmith

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I’d forgotten what a rich and deep and characterful voice John le Carré had. Listening to author and lawyer Philippe Sands’s Archive on 4 programme on him last week, I was struck by how much more engaging it was than almost every other male voice on the radio these days.

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