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Voltaire and the Making of Candide

BBC Radio 3
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Roy Owen. Professor of French at St Andrews University, proposes a medieval source for Voltaire's best-known work, and traces the strange ancestry of Candide's tutor, Dr Pangloss, from Irish myth to 18th-century French literature.
Readers DENIS GOACHER and MICHAEL MCCLAIN
Producer ADRIAN JOHNSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Owen.
Readers:
Denis Goacher
Readers:
Michael McClain
Producer:
Adrian Johnson
Source: Radio Times

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