Colum McCann on the importance of undersea cables

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Recorded18 Apr 2025

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Colum McCann discusses his new book, Twist in which Anthony Fennell, a journalist, is in pursuit of a story buried at the bottom of the sea: the network of tiny fibre-optic tubes that carry the world’s information across the ocean floor – and what happens when they break.

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