Sunday, February 18, 2007

Podcast Pick of the Day - In Our Time

In Our Time
Heart of Darkness
Run Time: 42:09

Hosted by Melvyn Bragg, In Our Time is a weekly podcast delivering unique, fresh views on intriguing and diverse topics in history. This week's focus was Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad in 1899. The work of fiction drew from Conrad's experiences, and expose the grim immorality at the heart of European colonization of Africa. The novel ends with the famous words "the horror, the horror."

The podcast can be found at the BBC Radio 4 homepage for In Our Time and iTunes.

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