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Marguerite Yourcenar - A Coin in Nine Hands

The first women to elected to the Academie Francaise, Marguerite Yourcenar

Programme includes: the first women to elected to the Academie Francaise, Marguerite Yourcenar, author of A Coin in Nine Hands: The Captain's Doll, a film adaptation of DH Lawrence's short story starring Jeremy Irons: writer Ian McEwan on the oratorio Or Shall We Die, he wrote to music by composer Michael Berkeley. Presented by Sarah Dunant.

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29 minutes

成人快手 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project