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Talks

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  Simone de Beauvoir on an ageing society

  Filmed: 1970

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  Doris Lessing wins the Nobel prize for literature

  Filmed: 11 Oct 2007

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  Vladimir Nabokov on Lolita Part 2

  Filmed: 09 Feb 2010

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  Vladimir Nabokov on Lolita

  Filmed: 1950

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  Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A World Split Apart

  Filmed: 08 Jun 1978

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  Down Cemetery Road with Philip Larkin and John Betjeman

  Filmed: 1964

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  Primo Levi revisits Auschwitz (excerpt)

  Filmed: 1983

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  Virginia Woolf on words

  Filmed: 29 Apr 1937

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  TS Eliot reads selected works

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  Jorge Luis Borges on the riddle of poetry

  Filmed: 1968

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  James Baldwin Interview

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  Sylvia Plath Interview and poetry recital

  Filmed: 1962

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  Maya Angelou on poetry and Barack Obama

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  Truman Capote 1966 CBC Interview

  Filmed: 1966

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  Jack Kerouac 1959 CBC Interview

  Filmed: 1959

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  Arthur Miller 1960 Interview

  Filmed: 1960

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  Hunter S Thompson 1977 CBC interview

  Filmed: 1977

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  Leonard Cohen on love and tattoos

  Filmed: 1966

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  Charles Bukowski reading Bluebird and The genius of the Crowd

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  Ernest Hemingway's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

  Filmed: 1954

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  Robert Frost Lecture

  Filmed: 1963

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  Ezra Pound reading 'With Usura'

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  William Carlos Williams reads 'The Young Housewife' and other poems

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