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Dr Jennifer Wallace gives the pre-Proms talk (with the poet Clare Pollard) on Wednesday 7 August . The title of the talk is ‘The power of tragic tales’ and it will be broadcast on Radio 3, during the interval of the live broadcast of Prom 26.
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