{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/af0e16de-9e4b-419b-b090-e1fe8c56f241/65d712674393e500166b0c5d?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Cometh the Hour","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61ba0ef81a8cbec7663cf149/1708593458421-8a7191e40f6bebc4f0dd3fd93db02dd5.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>This week, Fintan O'Toole assesses what makes Labour leader Keir Starmer tick; and Linda Kinstler on the Ukrainian writer, musician and activist Serhiy Zhadan's chronicles of life during wartime. Plus John Kinsella reads his new poem, 'Rooks'.</p><p><br></p><p>'Keir Starmer: The Biography', by Tom Baldwin</p><p>'Rooks', by John Kinsella</p><p>'How Fire Descends: New and Selected Poems', by Serhiy Zhadan, translated by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps</p><p>'Sky Above Kharkiv: Dispatches from the Ukrainian Front', by Serhiy Zhadan, translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler</p><p><br></p><p>Produced by Charlotte Pardy </p>","author_name":"The TLS"}