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Book of the Week: Priscilla: Episode 4

Priscilla

Episode 4

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

Priscilla’s closest wartime friend gathers more facts in the Bodleian library.

Priscilla’s closest wartime friend gathers more facts in the Bodleian library. 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 5 episodes by Katrin Williams.

4. Priscilla relied on the kindness and often dubious motives of men to survive in the capital. Then information supplied by her friend Gillian Sutro casts even more light on tumultuous events..
 
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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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