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Dear Chichester

BBC Radio 3
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On the centenary of the death of Edward Lear, John Wells reads a selection of Lear's letters to his good friend Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford, in which he talks of his paintings, his nonsense verse, his obsessive need to travel and, for all his wifelessness, his good fortune in friendship...

Contributors

Author:
Edward Lear
Reader:
John Wells
Selected and abridged by:
Joanna Richardson
Producer:
Peter Kavanagh
Source: Radio Times

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