Thomas Malthus and Wilkie Collins

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🗓️ 8 May 2014

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This week we explore the life and work of two intellectual giants of the 19th century. First up, Robert Mayhew discusses the Georgian economist Thomas Malthus whose theories on population growth have remained controversial ever since. After that we're joined by Andrew Lycett, the latest biographer of the Victorian thriller writer Wilkie Collins, whose own life was also filled with secrets. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:41.9	He's regularly written about.
0:43.8	He's in the media all the time.
0:45.7	You still do him if you read A-level geography.
0:50.5	He's everywhere, but very few people actually ever read Malthus himself.
0:55.4	That was Robert Mayhew talking about the political economist Thomas Malthus.
1:00.5	And it was a time of great change and people weren't sure what was happening. And I think that was one of the features that he latched onto in writing his sensation novels, that people were
1:07.5	slightly on edge. And that was Andrew Lysett, describing how Victorian novelist Wilkie Collins
1:13.6	reflected the period in which he lived.
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