This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the writer and broadcaster Muriel Zagha to discuss 'Nightmare Alley', an unsettling vision of delight and deceit from the Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro; the historian Abigail Green explores the untold stories of the women behind Europe’s premier banking dynasty, the Rothschilds; plus, a dinosaur poem of note
'Nightmare Alley', various cinemas
'The Women of Rothschild: The untold story of the world’s most famous dynasty' by Natalie Livingstone
Produced by Sophia Franklin
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