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with David Runciman

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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Middlemarch Part 2

This second episode about George Eliot’s masterpiece explores questions of politics and religion, reputation and deception, truth and public opinion. What is the relationship between personal power and faith in a higher power? Is it ever possible to escape from the gossip of your friends once it turns against you? Who can rescue the ambitious when their ambitions are their undoing?


Tomorrow: Anthony Trollope’s Phineas Redux


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22 August 2024

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