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Book of the Week: Christopher Hitchens - Arguably

Book of the Week: Christopher Hitchens - Arguably: Episode 5: Flaws of Gravity

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Episode 5: Flaws of Gravity

Christopher Hitchens - Arguably

Flaws of Gravity

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Christopher Hitchens - Arguably, Flaws of Gravity

Peter Ackroyd's biography of Isaac Newton sparks Hitchens' nostalgic rumination on science

Peter Ackroyd's biography of Isaac Newton sparks Hitchens' nostalgic rumination on science and Cambridge. Read by Roger Allam.

Hitchens' uses Peter Ackroyd's biography of Isaac Newton as a springboard for a nostalgic rumination on science and Cambridge. 

Christopher Hitchens was a British-born political journalist and reviewer, who was based in the USA for over 25 years. His journalism, invariably polemical, appeared in a variety of publications, mainly in the USA, but in the UK too. Arguably is the fifth collection of his journalism - the columns defined as 'Essays' in the book.

The five 'Essays'selected for Book Of The Week all originally appeared in The Atlantic Journal.

Written by Christopher Hitchens
Abridged by Pete Nichols
Read by Roger Allam


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A selection of the polemical journalist's essays. Read by Roger Allam

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