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Mary Renault
Actually, I got the name
Renault out of Froissart's Chronicles of the Hundred Years War ... It was the name of one of the French knights. I'd forgotten there was a car! Mary Challen adopted that pseudonym when she started to write her first hook The Purposes of Love during the war. Since then she has published a sequence of seven novels set in ancient Greece, including The Mask of Apollo, Fire from Heaven, and The Praise Singer.
A: her home in Cape TCwn, MARY RENAULT talks to Sue MacGregor about her lifelong fascination with the world of Socrates. Pericles. and Alexander the Great Reader
Michael Pennington
Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
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Reader:
Michael Pennington
Producer:
Brian Barfield
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