Marlon James
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3,415 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Marlon James’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Rider Haggard.
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It's just it's it's yeah.
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Because I thought you Is it fun?
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No it's not.
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But it made me think, you know, a book that I'd rather if you're gonna have encounters of black people, white people, Africans or whatever, I'd rather people read Benito Sereno.
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Right.
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Yes.
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Yeah, by Melville which starts out like where we're on a slave ship and nothing is as it seems and when you see the revelation and when a revelation hits, um, it's it's shocking.
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But it also it also stands as a as a rebuke to people.
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who always excuse novels with one dimensional black characters or with characters who black characters who aren't smart.
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Mm-hmm.
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Saying, Oh, they're just reflective of the times and then you explain then how do you explain better into Serena Hill, how do you explain the Tempest?
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Right.
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Right.
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Some people liked it because Alan Cortamine is such a swashbuckler.
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Instead of King Solomon's readings.
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I would teach a radiance of the king.
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Um Kamar Alai's book, it's as easy to read as King Solomon's.
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And it is some it it it is about um a white man who feels he's wrong.
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He's a typical he's an Alan Quartamate type.
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