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Episode 4

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Maud has decided that Antigone holds the key.

Maud has decided that Antigone holds the key to her finding out about her dead husband's troubled family history.

Sofka Zinovieff's novel is set in contemporary Athens, but the story it tells goes back to the bitter political divisions of the Greek Civil War. When Maud's Greek husband Nikitas dies in a mysterious car crash, his mother Antigone returns from Moscow, where she has been living in exile for nearly sixty years after abandoning Nikitas as a small child. Maud has become anxious to know more about her husband's troubled family history, and has decided that Antigone holds the key.
Abridged by Sarah LeFanu

Readers: Lucy Briers and Ann Beach
Producer: Sara Davies.

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By Sofka Zinovieff. An English widow tries to discover her Greek husband's family history

Sofka Zinovieff's novel set in contemporary Greece about an English widow's quest to piece together the wartime origins of her husband's troubled family history

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