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The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana When aging Italian book-dealer Yambo, hero of this engaging if somewhat bloodless novel of ideas, regains consciousness after a mysterious coma, he suffers a peculiar form of amnesia. His "public" memory of languages, everyday routines, history and literature remains intact, but his autobiographical memory of personal experiences – of his family, lovers, childhood, even his name – is gone.
This year's Reith lecturer is Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright, Wole Soyinka, who was imprisoned in Nigeria for his opposition to dictatorship.
Lecture 1: The Changing Mask of Fear Lecture 2: Power and Freedom Lecture 3: Rhetoric that Binds and Blinds Lecture 4: A Quest for Dignity Lecture 5: I am Right; You are Dead
