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Radio 3,4 mins

"A curious collision between politics with a small 'p' and the big top"

Free Thinking

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2017 New Generation Thinker Eleanor Lybeck explores how the circus was used as a frame for early 20th century Irish satire and the artist Edward Seago's fascination with the travelling spectacle (Image: © Arts and Humanities Research Council / Steven Haywood)

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