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This week, Elizabeth Lowry is impressed by a study of Hardy’s late-life love poetry; and TLS science editor Sam Graydon on his ‘mosaic’ biography of Einstein
‘Woman much missed: Thomas Hardy, Emma Hardy, and poetry’, by Mark Ford
‘Einstein in time and space: a life in 99 particles’, by Samuel Graydon
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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