Hari Kunzru readings

To accompany our podcast Transmission: A conversation with Hari Kunzru, here is a recording of him reading from two of his most iconic works: Gods Without Men (2011), a novel about mixed-raced identity in India, and The Memory Palace (2013), a collaborative…

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How to be a whizz at spelling

A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed. That sentence contains all nine ways of pronouncing the letters ‘ough’ in English.  It is a seemingly chaotic language.  Indeed playwright…

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