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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Tim Parks on translating Leopardi
Mary Beard on referenda
Fiction and the refugee crisis
Svetlana Alexievich and the Russian-Soviet soul
Tessa Hadley and Sarah Hall in conversation
Utopia – Then and Now (live from Kings Place)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Casanova's escape
Thomas De Quincey
Robert Browning's Poetic Characters
Shakespeare and Cervantes, 400 years on
Utopia at 500
Being Jewish, being American
Oscar Wilde and the Chatterton myth
Henry James in the TLS
Mary Beard
Jane Austen's Emma
"Tea at the Midland" by David Constantine
Jacob Tonson's poets
John Donne
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