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Flâneuse: Women Who Walk the Cities

Julianna Jennings

Lauren Elkin

Penny Leicester

Duncan Minshull

Flâneuse: Women Who Walk the Cities by Lauren Elkin: 4. Venice

Flaneuse - Women Who Walk the Cities

4. Venice

Flâneuse: Women Who Walk the Cities by Lauren Elkin

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Flâneuse: Women Who Walk the Cities by Lauren Elkin, 4. Venice

Author Lauren Elkin strolls the streets, thinking about distinguished women who walked.

Author Lauren Elkin takes to watery Venice thinking about renowned artist Sophie Calle. Read by Julianna Jennings.

Author Lauren Elkin strolls great cities, thinking about distinguished women who did the same.

She spent time in Venice, researching a novel. And here she recalls the artist Sophie Calle, who came to the city to 'follow' a man called 'Henri B'. 

All in the name of creativity of course.

Read by Julianna Jennings.

Abridged by Penny Leicester.

Producer: Duncan Minshull

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2016.

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