Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 18 hours ago

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Jan Morris was one of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century. In this session, Sara Wheeler joins William Dalrymple to trace her extraordinary life—from being first to report the news of the 1953 Everest ascent, to covering events such as the Eichmann trial and Suez, and later writing Conundrum, her landmark account of transition. Through journalism, travel, and history, Morris’s life unfolds as one of brilliance and contradiction, shaped by a lifelong search for identity, belonging, and home.

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