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Embracing the Eccentric

BBC Radio 3
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It's not that a massacre of cats is important in itself but it can open up an understanding of a symbolic world that has disappeared.
In conversation with Colin McLaren , Robert Darnton , Professor of History at
Princeton University and an authority on 18th-century France, talks about his unorthodox approach, one which made his latest book a best-seller in English and French.
Producer MARIA BALINSKA (R)

Contributors

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Colin McLaren
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Robert Darnton
Producer:
Maria Balinska
Source: Radio Times

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