Episode

Ann Wroe: Lifescapes

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John Sandoe Books
Published
Sep 20, 2023
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2466
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Summary

Johnny interviews Ann Wroe, obituaries editor of the Economist since 2003, about her new book, Lifescapes: A Biographer's Search for the Soul. It is a characteristically distinctive and subtle account of the process that the veteran obituarist and biographer describes as the process of ‘catching souls’. Interviewed by Johnny de Falbe Edited by Magnus Rena Music: Nick Drake, When the Day Is Done