'A sunny place for shady people' - Tuscany has always been a magnet for the British escaping from their native climate and morals. John Mortimer is the latest in a long line of British writers from Shelley to D.H. Lawrence , to fall under the Tuscan spell. He talks to two distinguished exiles, Sir Harold Acton and Muriel Spark and to some of the lesser-known Britons who flock to Florence every year in search of enlightenment.
Does Italy still have the same effect on English girls as it had on Lucy Honeychurch in E. M. Forster 's A Room with a View?
Production assistant RACHEL FOSTER Executive producer JOHN ARCHER Director DAISY GOODWIN A REVIEW special