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Red Thread by Charlotte Higgins culture which “plays out like a**BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**The tale of how the hero Theseus killed the Minotaur, finding his way out of the labyrinth using Ariadne's ball of red thread, is one of the most intriguing, suggestive and persistent of all myths, and the labyrinth the beautiful, confounding and terrifying building created for the half man, half bull monster is one of the foundational symbols of human ingenuity and artistry. Charlotte Higgins, author of the Baillie