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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: British Academy Book Prize 2022
Description: Deafness and communication, writing Chinese, women as killers in Chile, German postwar history, testimony from a Swedish village and a global history of science are the topics explored in the books shortlisted for this year's prize for Global Cultural Understanding run by the British Academy. Rana Mitter talks to the six authors about their findings. The books are:The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness by Katie Booth
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich by Harald Jähner
Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village by Marit Kapla
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