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Mein Kampf, Larissa MacFarquhar, Julia Margaret Cameron

Photographer Anna Fox and painter Chantal Joffe review Julia Margaret Cameron at the V&A, and journalist Larissa MacFarquhar talks to Anne McElvoy about altruism.

Anne McElvoy discusses Mein Kampf coming out of copyright with Ben Barkow of the Wiener Library in London, Heinrich von Berenberg - a publisher based in Berlin and Nicholas Stargardt, author of The German War and a professor of Modern European History at Oxford.

Photographer Anna Fox and painter Chantal Joffe discuss an exhibition of Julia Margaret Cameron photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

New Yorker journalist Larissa MacFarquhar talks to Anne McElvoy about altruism.

The exhibition to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 - 1879), runs at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 28 November 2015 - 21 February 2016, and Julia Margaret Cameron: Influence and Intimacy is also on show at the Science Museum, London until the 28th March 2016.

Larissa MacFarquhar's book is called Strangers Drowning.

Producer: Zahid Warley

(Main image: Julia Jackson photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1867 (c) Victoria and Albert Museum, London).

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45 minutes

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Anne McElvoy
Interviewed Guest Ben Barkow
Interviewed Guest Heinrich von Berenberg
Interviewed Guest Nicholas Stargardt
Interviewed Guest Anna Fox
Interviewed Guest Larissa MacFarquhar
Producer Zahid Warley

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  • Thu 3 Dec 2015 22:00

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