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Electricity

Ian McMillan is joined by Ben Okri, Susie Dent, Kerry Shale, and Laura Watts.

As energy prices rise, electric cars charge, and the COP summit in Glasgow burns the midnight, er, electricity, we turn up the voltage on the language generated by that invisible force and think about our relationship with it. Ian's guests are the novelist and poet Ben Okri, the lexicographer Susie Dent, the futures ethnographer Laura Watts, and the actor and podcaster Kerry Shale, as Bob Dylan...

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Fri 5 Nov 2021 22:00

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