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From the archive: Trotsky in Mexico; Angela Carter on the maternity ward – Audio Long Reads

Revisiting two seminal articles from 1937 and 1983.

By Kingsley Martin, Angela Carter, Adrian Bradley and Melissa Denes

From the archive: Trotsky in Mexico; Angela Carter on the maternity ward - Audio Long Reads

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From the NS archive: Masochism for the masses

3 June 1983: Angela Carter on the Thatcher phenomenon.

By Angela Carter

Notes from a maternity ward

A New Statesman article from December 1983, by Angela Carter. Introduced by Kira Cochrane

By Angela Carter

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