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Listener, They Won It

The Essay

Writers explore how sports have been captured in the arts, from novels to film, photography to painting. How does the sport illuminate and resonate in the art form?

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Ed Smith

All available episodes (5 total)

  • Death in Trieste

    A 1760s murder still informs ideas about aesthetics, a certain sort of sex, and death.

  • Watch: My Deaf World

    Five compelling experiences of what it is like to be deaf in 21st-century Britain.

  • Five figures from the arts and science introduce books that changed their lives and work.

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