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A minute in the room where it happens: setting up, the edit and the last mix before Thursday.
We’re replacing the theme for season 4. This is the first rough mix: tell us what you think before it’s final.
Thank you to everyone who came to The Lantern Room. A few favourites from the night.
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Timestamps, the three books we mentioned and this week’s prompt, as a PDF.
The full hour from September’s Inner Circle call, with timestamps for every question.
Forty minutes on the episode we scrapped, and what it taught us about cutting.
We put them all on one shelf. Buying through it supports independent bookshops.
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Five years ago we had two microphones, one spare room and a list of people we wanted to ask one question: what did it really take? This is the story of the first episode, and the forty that nearly didn’t happen.
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