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Jean Rhys - The Blue Hour

Episode 3

BBC Radio 4

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Pooky Quesnel reads from Lillian Pizzichini's biography of the author Jean Rhys, best known for the 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea.

Jean becomes a chorus girl in Edwardian London and learns about love the hard way. Show less

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