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Australian Arts

The music of their eloquence

20 April 2024

9:00 AM

20 April 2024

9:00 AM

It was a tweet by the novelist Joyce Carol Oates that warned us PBS, the American public broadcaster, had done a doco about William F. Buckley, Jnr and by some touch of providence it was there on YouTube to be watched at leisure. William F. Buckley was one of the most extraordinary conservatives who ever lived and he was also a charmer of positively bewitching powers.

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