As a radical journalist in the sixties, through exile, return and acclaim, Czech writer Ivan Klima has chronicled and questioned the extraordinary cultural and political changes of his country. His new novel, The Ultimate Intimacy, is set against a backdrop of a modern
Prague beset by crime and growing racial intolerance and tells the story of a Protestant priest wracked by spiritual doubt. Hermione Lee talks to Ivan Klima about the novel and the recent history of Prague.
And medical historian Roy Porter discusses his new study entitled The Medical History of Humanity. Producer Julian May
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