Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Really Hot Hands
Pub date: 2020-10-13

To mark the publication of the latest LRB Collection of essays, about sport, David Runciman, on loan from Talking Politics, talks to Ben Markovits about Michael Jordan, home advantage, how basketball has tackled racial inequality, the difference between writing about sport in fiction and non-fiction, and why it turns out that players really are sometimes hot and sometimes not.

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