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Sep 2023
56m 56s

Back to School!

THE TLS
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This week, poet Camille Ralphs explains why she submitted to WH Auden's exacting syllabus; and Toby Lichtig joins us to preview the autumn's notable fiction.


'Daydream College for Bards', by Camille Ralphs

'The Fraud', by Zadie Smith

'North Woods', by Daniel Mason

'The Variations', by Patrick Langley

'The Wren, The Wren,' by Anne Enright


Produced by Charlotte Pardy


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