The Lives of Christopher Chant

from Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones · host Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh

Nobody should be losing lives at this rate. What is wrong, Christopher?In our first episode of Season Three, the brilliant Iona Datt Sharma joins us for a discussion of bureaucracy, cricket boys, Burton and Kipling, and the limitations of escape into fantasy, Transcript available here, and we'll be back next time with Castle in the Air! 

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Nobody should be losing lives at this rate. What is wrong, Christopher? In our first episode of Season Three, the brilliant Iona Datt Sharma joins us for a discussion of bureaucracy, cricket boys, Burton and Kipling, and the limitations of escape into fantasy, Transcript available here [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uYYPzPtYkdXbZ5gOUNkCd-_Pvtx2rGy_/view?usp=sharing], and we'll be back next time with Castle in the Air!

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