Look At Me by Anita Brookner - rerun

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Jun 9, 202668:19Arts

This is a vintage Backlisted episode recorded back in 2017. John and Andy were joined by Una McCormack and Lucy Scholes to discuss Anita Brookner's third novel Look At Me (1982), a tale of intergalactic piracy in a far o...

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