
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit creator JRR Tolkien
Evil Genius with Russell Kane
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Is C.S. Lewis Racist?
"It's wild for me to hear racist now, but not back then," says presenter. "We're on an island where 100% of the people are racist... We were racist then and we're racist now, OK? Agreed." But if 100% of us were racist, to what extent can we hold that racism to a kind of true account 50 years after it was first seen? 'I think from our Intelligence. Vision's good on the panel,' he adds.'But I'm not going to go burn a lot of the rings copy because I hate it.'
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