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17:45 Tue 2 Aug 2016 Imperial College Union
Novelist Patricia Duncker and New Generation Thinker Clare Walker-Gore of Trinity College, Cambridge, discuss George Eliot, her travels in 19th-century Germany and the music she refers to in her novels and diaries.
Novelist Patricia Duncker and New Generation Thinker Clare Walker-Gore of Trinity College, Cambridge, discuss George Eliot, her travels in 19th-century Germany and the music she refers to in her novels and diaries.

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Novelist Patricia Duncker, discusses George Eliot, her travels in Germany in the 19th century when she spent 8 months in the country and the music she refers to in her novels and diaries. Along side her on stage is Clare Walker-Gore of Trinity College, Cambridge, one of the academics selected last year by the Â鶹ԼÅÄ and the Arts and Humanities Council to be a New Generation Thinker.

The host is Anne McElvoy, who is a regular presenter of Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3’s Arts and Ideas programme Free Thinking and a journalist who writes for the London Evening Standard and the Economist.