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Book of the Week: Priscilla: Episode 3

Priscilla

Episode 3

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Priscilla, Episode 3

Priscilla is ordered to the police station by a gendarme in wartime Paris.

Priscilla is ordered to the police station by a gendarme in wartime Paris. Read by her author nephew, Nicholas Shakespeare.

Nicholas Shakespeare writes about his aunt, a glamorous English woman whose life in Paris during the German Occupation grew more and more mysterious. Abridged in five episodes by Katrin Williams.


3. Priscilla has been living off her wits and off the favours of men she knows. But incriminating information seems to gather fast and one morning the police come calling.
 

Reader Nicholas Shakepeare
 
Producer Duncan Minshull

Book of the Week: Priscilla

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Nicholas Shakespeare writes about his aunt's life in Paris during the German Occupation

Nicholas Shakespeare writes about his aunt, a glamorous Englishwoman whose life in Paris during the German Occupation grew more and more mysterious. Abridged by Katrin Williams. Read by the author

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