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Person Place Thing with comedian Eleanor Morton

Eleanor Morton
Randy Cohen screen capture

Host Randy Cohen stumbled onto the short videos this Scottish comedian posts online and was immediately won over by her conversation between C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien: she plays both of them. What comic does C.S. Lewis? Smart, dark, funny: the triple crown.

You can hear the full episode at personplacething.org.

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