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So to Speak podcast: ‘Burning the Books’ with Richard Ovenden

On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we are joined by to discuss his new book, Ovenden is the Director of the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Balliol College. In 2019, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire.
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