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The Waste Land and Modernity
Melvyn Bragg and guests, including Steve Connor and Lawrence Rainey, discuss TS Eliot's seminal poem The Waste Land and its ambivalence to the modern world of technology, democracy and capitalism that was being forged around it.
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Thu 26 Feb 200921:30
BBC Radio 4
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- Thu 26 Feb 200909:00BBC Radio 4
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