Daisy Dunn

Hearing Percy Bysshe Shelley read aloud was a revelation

Plus: a drama about when Britain was home to the first African-born emperor of ancient Rome

An illustration of Percy Bysshe Shelley by A.S. Hartrick. Photo: Universal History Archive / Getty Images 
issue 16 July 2022
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