Misha Glenny
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1,430 appearances
22 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 4d ago
Misha Glenny’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And would you say that it's a nostalgic novel?
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Yes, you do get a sense.
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I mean, Austria-Hungary towards its end was often described as the prison of nations.
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And you get a sense that he's trying to modify that view of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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John, you wanted to come in.
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Helen, what's extraordinary is his ability to write clear, clean copy.
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And I mean, for his novels as well,
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He's not a writer who is endlessly revising his work.
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Deborah, I'm going to move us on from Rudetsky March onto a very important subject.
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What about women in Roth's novels and also in his life?
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Because we haven't mentioned it, but fairly early on he married in Vienna and that was a very, very important part of his narrative.
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That's where he seemed to have spent most of his life.
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The two of them basically live out of a suitcase, as far as I'm concerned.
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And what happens to Friedel in the end?
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Because I think this is quite important.
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And Gortys refers to Friedel and her illness in some of his work.
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I'm not sure to what extent she... Well, let me take it on to John Hughes in that case and talk about Job, the story of a simple man, which is what I think where he maybe does reference Friedel.
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Can you tell us about...
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about this novel because, as I understand it, Marlene Dietrich thought it was fabulous.
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I was going to say, it's so unrouting.
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