Misha Glenny

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1,410 appearances 21 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 6d ago

Misha Glenny’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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In Our Time · Machado de Assis · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

Well, do tell us now what it means.

So it's Sir Grumpy.

It doesn't sound like the way a lot of people describe it, which is a modern Othello.

Is that right, and why is it compared to Othello?

That's right, because in Shakespeare's Othello, we know throughout the play that Desdemona is absolutely innocent.

Here, we don't know because we only have one voice, and that's Don Casmurro, and so there is doubt.

We simply don't know.

Bento and Don Casmurro are the same person.

So Don Casmurro is both a fellow and Iago at the same time, both the duped one and the person who's suggesting that Capitu is unfaithful.

Anna Claudia, this is probably his best known work.

How does it highlight his strengths as a writer?

So he doesn't kill Capitu.

She leaves him for Europe.

Can you just explain what the dependent is?

Because this is an important concept in Brazil, but not so familiar here.

Viv, you wanted to come in briefly there.

It's a very theatrical society, Brazil.

I remember when I first went there, I had come from working in the Balkans for a long time.

Circumstances in Brazil in terms of poverty and things like that are comparable to the Balkans, but people still party all the time.

It's a very lively society.

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