Steven Connor on the History of Ventriloquism

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Steven Connor says there's much more to ventriloquism than exchanging quips with a wooden dummy.  His book is  "Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism."  He tells Anne Strainchamps that a lot of this history has to do with the disembodied voice.