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Marina Lewycka - Up the Eiffel Tower

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Episode 5: Marina Lewycka - Up the Eiffel Tower

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Marina Lewycka takes a trip up the Eiffel Tower to reflect on a lifetime of visiting Paris

Ukainian-British novelist Marina Lewycka takes a trip up the Eiffel Tower to reflect on a lifetime of visiting Paris and consider what the future holds for the Europe she loves.

To celebrate the 70th anniversary of Radio 3, the network invited five writers with whom it shares a birthday, also turning 70 this year, on a birthday outing. Our contributors chose to visit places that have some personal significance for them where they could look back and reflect on their feelings in this special birthday year.

Today, Ukrainian-British Novelist Marina Lewycka, best known for her 2005 novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian which won the 2005 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, takes a trip up the Eiffel Tower to reflect on a lifetime of visiting the city and a look at what the future holds for the Europe she loves. 

Essayist and reader: Marina Lewycka
Producer: Simon Richardson.

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Series in which writers visit a place with personal significance for them

To celebrate the 70th anniversary of Radio 3, five writers who also reach 70 years old in 2016 visit a place that has personal significance for them, reflecting on their feelings

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