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Jean Paul Sartre refuses the Nobel Prize

22 Oct 2019

To listen to this post, click here – On this day in 1964 the French philosopher and writer Jean Paul Sartre refused to accept the Nobel Prize for literature. Sartre refused the prize saying that... Read More

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s opium addiction

21 Oct 2019

To listen to this post, click here – On this day in 1772 the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born. A huge influence on later poets, he was a friend of Wordsworth, becoming a leading... Read More

Arthur Rimbaud’s explosive life

20 Oct 2019

To listen to this post, click here – On this day in 1854 the French poet Arthur Rimbaud was born. Rimbaud was born a country boy in the Ardennes in Northern France. He went to... Read More

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