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Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson

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Richard Burton - Is He Really Trying?

At the end of his life near the end and when he's kind of again he's poor and sort of forgotten. He starts translating like the Arabian Knights and the Kama Sutra which is obviously scandalizing Victorian England but they sell really really well so people yeah with that outrage they're secretly buying it right. So that's is really his only source of income and he's given really sort of out of the way consulships that nobody else wants  and he's angry and resentful. That's who Burton is, there's always this quest for knowledge whether it's going to distant lands or delving deep into literature and that's who he is essentially. Even after losing everything

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