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Episodes
Saturday Jul 25, 2020
Saturday Jul 25, 2020
Robert Elms talks to Georgia de Chamberet about The BookBlast® 10x10 Tour in association with Waterstones. A carnival of authors, poets, translators and independent publishers visit 9 major cities across England, 11 September to 15 November, holding live talks at flagship stores and inspiring readers to immerse themselves in authentic, offbeat new writing.
Interview date: 01 September 2018
Saturday Jul 25, 2020
Saturday Jul 25, 2020
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
Saturday Jul 25, 2020
Saturday Jul 25, 2020
Celebrated author and distinguished traveller, Lesley Blanch, MBE (1904-2007), talks to Teresa Cherfas about her love of Russia and of the mysterious family friend whom she referred to as The Traveller. Although to some it may seem that Blanch excelled in magnifying her own peculiarities to become larger than life, even mythic, she was always true to herself. Her private life was so inaccessible as to be virtually unimaginable. Blanch gave this interview the day after coming out of hospital, in February 2007. She died four months later.
Visit her website at lesleyblanch.com twitter @lesleyblanch