
Riders On The Storm
The TLS Podcast
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The Centenary of Tefid Bikman
Tefid Bikman was a Belgian radical about whom nothing is known. No one had seen that piece of film for 100 years, and it just might have ended up in a bin somewhere or set on fire because it turns out it was extremely flammable. I'm rescuing someone's biography from obscurity, which is something many historians have done, but I'm not a historian. You know, and I've made contact with his living relatives, and to them, it means the world. And yet it feels like an enormous honour and a strange privilege and a responsibility, actually.
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