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Radio 3,7 mins

The uncanny allure of Junk Shop Gothic

Free Thinking

Available for over a year

Lisa Mullen is the Steven Isenberg Junior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford and one of the 2018 New Generation Thinkers. Here she calls on Bagpuss, Orwell and Freud to help untangle the strangeness lurking in the depths of your local junk shop.

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