Juliet Gardiner
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In our latest book podcast, host George Miller talks to the immensely popular social historian, Juliet Gardiner, about her panoramic account of The Thirties, which has just come out in paperback. The book covers everything from hunger marches to greyhound racing, seaside holidays to the preparations for war. So does Gardiner share W. H. Auden's view of the thirties as a 'low, dishonest decade'?
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