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In this episode, Rupert and Charlie each choose 3 books they've read recently and enjoyed. Charlie discusses whether Shakespeare really wrote the plays, with "Shakespeare is a Woman and Other Heresies" by Elizabeth Winkler, and looks at two books about the Civil War and its aftermath - "The Restless Republic - Britain without a Crown" by Anna Keay, and "An Instance of the Fingerpost" by Ian Pears. Rupert goes a little more middlebrow, with "The Spy and the Traitor" by Ben MacIntyre ,and "Precipice" by Robert Harris. His third choice is Louis MacNeice's poem, "Autumn Journal". Join them as they talk about these books and why they enjoyed them.
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