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Lea Ypi, author of Free: Coming of Age at the End of History

Lea Ypi, author of Free: Coming of Age at the End of History

Author witnessed downfall of communist regime

Inside Politics with Hugh Linehan · Declan Conlon

February 18, 202247m 13s

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Show Notes

Academic and author Lea Ypi talks to Hugh about her unique and insightful memoir Free, in which she recalls her youth in Albania under communism, the regime's economic and political downfall and the disappointment of what came after.


Lea Ypi is professor of political theory at the London School of Economics. Free is published by Penguin.

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