Free Thinking | A Brexit Reading List

Based on Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 

Classicist Professor Edith Hall, New Generation Thinker Chris Kissane, novelist Elif Shafak, and Dr Alan Mendoza from the Henry Jackson Society join Matthew Sweet to consider what might be on a reading list to prepare for a post Brexit world.

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  • Type: Analysis
  • Channel: BBC Radio 3
  • Duration: 44'45''
  • Broadcast date: 2016
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