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Jun 2024
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The TLS on Tour

THE TLS
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Join us for at the Hay Festival for a conversation encompassing portals to other worlds, rock bands, improbable giraffes and the travails of the M4.


'Impossible Creatures', by Katherine Rundell

'One Ukrainian Summer: A Memoir About Falling in Love and Coming of Age in the Former USSR', by Viv Groskop


Produced by Charlotte Pardy

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

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