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Nov 2024
43m 46s

Good at Games

THE TLS
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This week, Norma Clarke explores the world of 18th-century chameleon Mary Robinson; and Devoney Looser on a soccer player's passion for Virginia Woolf.


'Mary Robinson: Actress, mistress, writer, radical',  Chawton House, Chawton, Hampshire, until April 21, 2025 

'The Striker and the Clock: On Being in the Game', by Georgia Cloepfil


Produced by Charlotte Pardy


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

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