Marlon James

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3,415 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 8 Sep

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Mm-hmm.

Or actually going back to the world that the novel is set.

And sometimes it's there.

I mean looking at Mansfield Park I know I wouldn't end up very well.

I'm not sure that would be certainly not the world of nineteenth century fiction.

Right.

Maybe earlier, I think, maybe.

Yes.

Then

be different people like Machado that then also slavery ended later in those

depends.

An urban London where you couldn't have slaves in London in in the UK could be different.

There are all these books about black Britons and black tutors and and so on.

So you get the sense that the and also you benefit from being an exception.

There's only three or four or five of you.

True.

But I thought about this d as I said, these worlds uh nineteenth, eighteenth century is tricky.

The future isn't k is kinda tricky too.

Because?

Because now you wanna go back or I wanna go back to see how much they got wrong or how much they got right.

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