Return to Paris by Colette Rossant

2. A Promise Broken and Student Life

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 4^th Jul 2023, 07:00 on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: Wed 5^th Jul 2023, 02:00 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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Teenage years after the war – and a farmers market.

Colette Rossant, celebrated New York food writer and bestselling author of Apricots on the Nile, continues her memoirs in Return to Paris.

She mixes vibrant memories of her teenage years in France after the Second World War with mouth-watering descriptions of meals that changed her life.

Read by Barbara Flynn

Abridged by Penny Leicester

Producer: Gemma Jenkins

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2003. Show less