Lesley Blanch, a life remembered, BBC Radio 4

Most famous for the group portrait of four women who escaped the conventional constraints of domestic life, The Wilder Shores of Love, Lesley Blanch was a scholarly romantic and a bold writer with a lifelong passion for Russia, the Balkans and the Middle East. Her posthumously published memoirs collects together the story of her marriage with Romain Gary, previously published only in French; her journalism on the artistic melting pot that was London between the wars; and a selection of her most evocative travel pieces, to create the story of a fascinating, bohemian – and, at times outrageous - life that spanned the twentieth century.

 

Interview date Monday 19 January, 2015

 

On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life by Lesley Blanch is published by Virago UK and Editions Table Ronde in Paris tr. Lucien d'Azay

 

Visit her website at lesleyblanch.com twitter @lesleyblanch