Free with Lea Ypi

TALKING POLITICS by Catherine Carr

Oct 21, 202156:51Arts

David talks with Lea Ypi about her astonishing new memoir Free: Coming of Age at the End of History, which tells the story of her childhood in Stalinist Albania and what came after. It’s a tale of family secrets, politic...

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