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Oct 2023
44m 14s

Sing, O muses!

THE TLS
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This week, Ysenda Maxtone Graham on the women who fought their way into horticulture; and Mary Beard leads us down a Homeric rabbit hole.


'An almost impossible thing: the radical lives of Britain's pioneering women gardeners', by Fiona Davison

'Homer and his Iliad', by Robin Lane Fox

'The Iliad', translated by Emily Wilson


Produced by Charlotte Pardy


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