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Nov 2020
49m 3s

You Have Fixed Me

THE TLS
About this episode

As Remembrance Day approaches, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Éadaoín Lynch to remember fully and truthfully the relationship between the poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon; and the TLS's sports editor David Horspool talks us through a couple of books on professional game playing, including a football memoir of obsession and crucial omissions by Arsène Wenger.


My Life in Red and White by Arsène Wenger

This Sporting Life: Sport and liberty in England, 1760–1960 by Robert Colls


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