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Lucy Hughes Hallett
Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen
Hay Festival 2005,
From Garibaldi and the greatest of them all, Achilles, to David Beckham, the writer explores how the truest mark of the hero is the ability to inspire in others forms of madness: desire, terror or both.