A Study in Improbability - a podcast by BBC Radio 4

Adam Gopnik reflects on the ever-increasing accessibility of the past.

He ponders what effect it has when "everything in the world that we can ever remember, everything that has accidentally haunted our imaginations for even a moment" is available online.

Producer: Adele Armstrong

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