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FS Saunders - The Woman Who Shot Mussolini

Episode 5

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Sinead Cusack reads from Frances Stonor Saunders's account of troubled life of Violet Gibson, the daugther of an Anglo-Irish lord who attempted to assassinate Mussolini in Rome in 1926.

Violet was eventually released by the Italian government. But how would her family determine her fate and future?

Abridged by Jill Waters

A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. Show less

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