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World Service,03 Dec 1999,28 mins

Utopias in literature

Meridian

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The British literary critic Professor John Carey and philosopher AC Grayling discuss the Faber Book of Utopias. Also on the programme: Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf, Pulitzer-Prize winning Susan Faludi on her book Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man and the latest in black South African writing after death of Apartheid. Presented by Harriett Gilbert.

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