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The Decline and Fall of the Orient Express

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

by Michael Barsley

This was the train from which The Lady Vanished; this was the travelling home of The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars; this was Graham Greene's Stamboul Train. Luxurious and clamorous, it ran from Paris to Istanbul. But now?
Michael Barsley has taken the journey with a tape recorder.

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Presenter:
Michael Barsley
Producer:
Patrick Harvey
Source: Radio Times

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