Hour 2: What can the history of hot-air balloon adventures tell us about the resilience of imagination? We’ll spend this hour with self-deemed “romantic” biographer Richard Holmes. After a series of books on poets, he changes direction to follow the rise of “ballomania” with Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air (Pantheon, 2013).
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