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Jun 24
1h 42m

Kazuo Ishiguru - The Buried Giant

DEATH // SENTENCE
About this episode
We made it - the podcast's personal favourite Kazuo Ishiguro book, The Buried Giant. It turns out a book about memory and genocide is kind of relevant to the world today, but we set it as part of Ishiguro's grand project of showing how Britain is bad and should sink below the waves. Music by Planning for Burial Theme tune by Caina 
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