In 1925 Ayn Rand plots her escape from Leningrad while Stalin and Trotsky plot against each other.

Music by Timbah

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In 1919, the 20-year-old Vladimir Nabokov has fled from revolutionary Petrograd and decamped to the Crimea where he writes poetry, catalogues butterflies, plays chess and waits for Lenin's Red Army to arrive.

Bibliography:

Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

Collected Poems by Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years by Brian Boyd

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In 1923, there is no such thing as George Orwell, but a policeman called Eric Blair is collecting stories.

Music:

Paws by Timbah

Bibliography:

Shooting an Elephant by Geroge Orwell

Burmese Days by Geroge Orwell

1984 by Geroge Orwell

Orwell: The New Life by DJ Taylor

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In 1874 the Austrian economy was on its keens and a young Sigmund Freud met Franz Brentano, "an ideal human being".

Written and read by Nicholas Barrett

Music: Paws by Timbah

Bibliography:

• The Austrians by Gordon Brook-Sheperd
• Becoming Freud by Adam Phillips
• Freud by Stefan Zweig
• Freud An Intellectual Biography by Joel Whitebook
• Sigmund Freud by Matt Ffytche

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In 1864 Nietzsche went to Bonn, where he tried and failed to study theology.

Written and read by Nicholas Barrett

Music: Friends From the Afterlife by Heston Mimms.

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