Jul 5, 2026 · 6 min · 8 segments
**For this week's Hall of Fame, the author Joe Dunthorne presents the writer's writer: Heinrich von Kleist. A contemporary of Goethe, Byron and Shelley he was perhaps even more jaded, world-weary and…
Joe DunthorneGuest
Carla O'ShaughnessyHost
Oswin BakerHost
So, Joe, on Trapped History, we love to ask our guests to nominate somebody for our Hall of Fame.
So it could be anybody, dead or alive, who you think is amazing, who we've never heard of, but we probably should have.
I wish I'd bought a more cheerful Hall of Fame after the two hours we spent discussing my family history, but I really haven't.
So, Joe, on Trapped History, we love to ask our guests to nominate somebody for our Hall of Fame.
So it could be anybody, dead or alive, who you think is amazing, who we've never heard of, but we probably should have.
I wish I'd bought a more cheerful Hall of Fame after the two hours we spent discussing my family history, but I really haven't.
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