Misha Glenny
speaker
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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They're very aware of each other.
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As you said, Zweig gave Roth quite a lot of money.
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But who is the better writer?
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And he was one of those few people.
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I think his first novel, Spinnennetz, The Spider's Web,
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actually engages with Hitler himself, even though this is in 1923, 1924.
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23.
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Extraordinary prescience.
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The Beer Hall Pudge.
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Deborah, tell us a bit about the coffeehouse culture that we skipped over, because he did spend a lot of time in... Which, to be fair, I mean, he did, but many, many other newspaper men and women of the time did.
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And I think it's worth pointing out that in 1918, 1919, Vienna was in a terrible state.
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And you mentioned that Rudetsky March was unique, but he did then write a sequel.
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The Emperor's Tomb.
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Why did he do that?
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So, well, thank you very much.
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I think not only are we going to be offered tea, but Martha baked me a lemon drizzle cake for my birthday.
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And so we also have exceptionally lemon drizzle cake.
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Simon, to go with?
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This is In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 and this is one of more than a thousand episodes you can find in the In Our Time archive.
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A reading list for this edition can be found in the episode description wherever you're listening.
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