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Eric Hobsbawm: The Age of Extremes

The Raymond Williams Lectures

Hay Festival 1995, Sunday 28 May 1995

The Historian Eric Hobsbawm talks to Dai Smith about his histroy of the Twentieth Century. "It takes far greater gifts - and far greater nerve - to simplify and scintillate than to criticise and to complicate. This book displays both these admirable qualities in abundance." - New Society.