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Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud.

Each week we choose three of our favourite pieces from the magazine and ask their writers to read them aloud.

I'm Oscar Edmondson and on the podcast this week.

Firstly, of the back of Svetlana Morinets's piece in last week's magazine about Ukraine's changing curriculum, Kieran Pym has written about what young Ukrainians will learn from the

works of the author Joseph Roth.

Then, Miranda Morrison reflects on why she quit her profession as a teacher, before Cosmo

Landersman asked whether successful writers can be friends

with less successful ones.

First up, Kieran Pyn.

As Russia's assault on Ukraine continues,

Volodymyr Zelensky's Ministry of Education

has just announced changes to the national curriculum

that include removing almost all the Russian authors on the

foreign literature syllabus. In last week's spectator, Svichlana Morinetz revealed the new names.

We see Robert Burns, whose inclusion may be a nod to Britain's support during the conflict.

Then there's Joseph Roth, a master of German prose, whose writing about interwar Europe speaks

to Ukraine's modern upheavals.

Roth was born in 1894, in Brody, a town that now stands in Western Ukraine but then lay in

what was known as Galicia, the eastern Austro-Hungarian crown land.

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