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Polly Barton & Amelia Abraham: Porn An Oral History

London Review Bookshop Podcast

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How Much History Should There Be in Oral History?

I feel like people or critics maybe could be frustrated at this format of, you know, it's not been edited, but you've published the conversation for Baitum. And also frustrated at ambivalence. I know that because my first book is also very ambivalent. It's about the mainstreaming of queer culture. So I can empathize. Do you want to talk a little bit about the title other than the fact that it's a great pun which I didn't really like pick up on until a friend pointed it out.Yeah, oral history, let's talk about that. I mean, I think that oral history is huge again. And it means many different things to

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