26 December 2018
25 minutes
Listen to our audio adaptation of “The Last Newspaper Reader”, a book by Michael Angele. In the first of our four-part serialisation, we find out that, for Thomas Bernhard, reading the paper was as important as writing.
26 December 2018
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