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The Story of Mary Berenson

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

compiled and written by BARBARA STRACHEY
Narrator GARARD GREEN ' I rather hate to feel so much. It brings one's heart up into one's throat In a most uncomfortable way. Still, thy letter has come at last. I can swim out into peaceful water again,' age of 27 Mary Whitall smith left her husband and their two baby daughters to live with a young American art historian. Bernard Berenson , and eventually they married. For 50 years Mary shared in Berenson's enthusiastic response to Italian
Renaissance painting and in her letters and diaries she recounts the pleasures and pains of their extraordinary life together at the villa
I Tattl outside Florence. BARBARA STRACHEY has based the programme on her forthcoming book Mary Berenson , a Sell-Portrait, written In collaboration with JAYNE SAMUELS.
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
(Repeated: Thurs 11.3 am)

Contributors

Written By:
Barbara Strachey
Narrator:
Garard Green
Unknown:
Mary Whitall
Unknown:
Bernard Berenson
Unknown:
Barbara Strachey
Unknown:
Mary Berenson
Unknown:
Jayne Samuels.
Producer:
Alan Haydock
as Mary Berenson with:
Gayle Hunnicutt
Source: Radio Times

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