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Richard Davenport-Hines
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Richard Davenport-Hines discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.
Richard Davenport-Hines is a British historian and literary biographer. His history of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair, was published in 2013. His book on espionage scandals, Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain was published in January. His other books include biographies of W. H. Auden, Marcel Proust and John Maynard Keynes. He was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford in 2016. His new book is History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft.
Anthony Quayle's novel Eight Hours from England https://thelastwordbookreview.com/2019/09/22/eight-hours-from-england-by-anthony-quayle/
Wrest Park in Bedfordshire https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/wrest-park/
The Merlin app that can identify birdsong https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/
Christopher Spence, founder of London Lighthouse hospice https://www.theguardian.com/society/2007/may/23/publicservicesawards29
Raccoons https://www.peta.org.uk/blog/13-astounding-facts-didnt-know-raccoon-dogs/
Feedback, the global campaign against food-waste & the ecological damage done by bad agricultural practices https://feedbackglobal.org/about-us/
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345 episoade
Manage episode 431122624 series 1698847
Richard Davenport-Hines discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.
Richard Davenport-Hines is a British historian and literary biographer. His history of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair, was published in 2013. His book on espionage scandals, Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain was published in January. His other books include biographies of W. H. Auden, Marcel Proust and John Maynard Keynes. He was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford in 2016. His new book is History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft.
Anthony Quayle's novel Eight Hours from England https://thelastwordbookreview.com/2019/09/22/eight-hours-from-england-by-anthony-quayle/
Wrest Park in Bedfordshire https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/wrest-park/
The Merlin app that can identify birdsong https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/
Christopher Spence, founder of London Lighthouse hospice https://www.theguardian.com/society/2007/may/23/publicservicesawards29
Raccoons https://www.peta.org.uk/blog/13-astounding-facts-didnt-know-raccoon-dogs/
Feedback, the global campaign against food-waste & the ecological damage done by bad agricultural practices https://feedbackglobal.org/about-us/
This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm
345 episoade
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