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Free Thinking: Orhan Pamuk and the Ottoman Empire

Series 1, episode 0

A pandemic, crumbling empire and new nationhood are the backdrop for Orhan Pamuk's latest novel, Nights of Plague. Pamuk and Rana Mitter are joined by historian and BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker Michael Talbot and literary scholar Kaya Anjaria to discuss the end of the Ottoman Empire