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An episode from 8/4/23: Tonight, we hear from cities under siege:

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• In the first part, I read from the Roman historian Livy\u2019s account of the sack of Rome by the Gauls in 387 BCE. The translation is by T. J. Luce.
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• In the second part, I read from the diary of the French art historian Agn\xe8s Humbert, who lived in Paris during the first months of the German occupation in World War Two, and who was involved in some of the earliest resistance activities in France.
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• Finally, I read a small section of William Blake\u2019s long poem, Milton, where his personal mythology is given free reign over the city of London. \xa0
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The music I play in the introduction, from Ludwig Goranson\u2019s score to the movie Oppenheimer, can be found here.

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