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Radio 4,2 mins

Mark Gatiss on The Sandman

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The writer and actor Mark Gatiss discusses the profound terror of German 19th-century author Hoffman’s The Sandman in a wider exploration of The Uncanny’ - an unsettling phenomenon identified by Freud which he dubbed ‘un-heimlich’.

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