Mar 2023

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Private Faces In Public Places

About this episode

This week, Margarette Lincoln on the secret life of Daniel Defoe, government agent; and Claire Lowdon transports herself back to the teenage turmoil of Martin Amis’s debut novel, fifty years on.

‘The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe’ edited by Nicholas Seager

‘The Rachel Papers’ by Martin Amis

Produced by Charlotte Pardy

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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