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Why did the US vice president want Tupac’s debut album pulled from shops? What did Tupac see in a newspaper that made him write ‘Brenda’s Got a Baby’? And, what happened when the persona he built began to take over?


In Part 2 of the Tupac Shakur series, Peter Frankopan and Afua Hirsch trace his rise from young rapper to film star and a target in America’s culture ...


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Content warning: this episode includes discussion of war, killing and the ongoing violence in Gaza.


Why did a cactus in an empty Palestinian village become the start of a novel?


What happens when the ghost of a girl killed in 1967 asks a teenager from North London for help?


And, why did Amy's tutor tell her, aged 20, to choose another cause...


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Content warning: this episode includes violence, drug addiction and references to sexual abuse.


How did a pregnant Black Panther with no legal training defend herself against 156 charges, and win?


Why did she name her son after the last Inca ruler, executed in Cusco in 1572?


And, how did a ballet-dancing theatre kid become the rapper a US v...


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What were British soldiers doing in Palestine in 1945, between the oranges, the swimming and the bombs?


Why does the Christmas show in Sebastian Faulks's Jerusalem swap Gilbert and Sullivan for Oscar Wilde?


And, how did a novelist who plans everything end up with a twist he never saw coming?


Sebastian Faulks tells Peter Frankopan and Afua H...


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Come and join us live! On Monday 16 November, Peter Frankopan and Afua Hirsch will be on stage at Kings Place in London with the wonderful Elif Shafak.


Her extraordinary new novel, In One Brief Moment All Eternity, tells the story of Gustave Flaubert, the creator of Madame Bovary, through the eyes of the women whose lives shaped his, and whose stories have largely...


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