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Feb 2024
41m 21s

All the World's a Stage

THE TLS
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This week, a special interview with the sociologist Richard Sennett takes us from Roland Barthes to Leonard Bernstein; and Hettie Judah on two memoirs inspired by a love of 17th-century art.


'The Performer: Art, Life, Politics', by Richard Sennett

'Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death', by Laura Cumming

'The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters', by Benjamin Moser


Produced by Charlotte Pardy


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