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Portraits from Memory

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In a unique set of recordings, drawn from the BBC Sound Archives, two great figures from the past are recalled by people who were fortunate enough to meet them.
1: Bertrand Russell remembers Joseph Conrad
' He spoke English with a very strong accent and nothing in his demeanour in any way suggested the sea. He was an aristocratic Polish gentleman to his finger-tips. His feeling for the sea and for England was one of romantic love - love from a certain distance, sufficient to leave the romance untarnished.'

Source: Radio Times

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