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19 November 2015

Episode 189

15 minutes

Up for discussion on this week’s book review is a book that explores the scepticism surrounding the term “do-gooder”: Larissa MacFarquhar’s ‘Strangers Drowning: Voyages to the Brink of Moral Extremity’. We also leaf through a humorous tale of Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero in the US Revolutionary War, written by Sarah Vowell. Plus: ‘Letters to Vera’ by the rather besotted Russian novelist, Vladimir Nabakov, to his wife.

19 November 2015

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