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Great Lives: Rob Rinder on Jessica Mitford

Rob Rinder on Jessica Mitford

BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, Rob Rinder on Jessica Mitford

Jessica Mitford is championed by Robert Rinder.

Robert Rinder discusses the life of the former aristocrat turned civil rights activist and investigative journalist, Jessica Mitford

Jessica Mitford was the fifth born of the notorious Mitford Sisters. Born into the aristocracy, as a child she had her own language, collected a running-away fund and fought to set herself apart from her fascist siblings. As an adult she was in turn a communist rebel, an investigative journalist, a civil rights activist and pop singer - opening a gig for Cyndi Lauper and recording an unlikely duet with her friend and fellow mischief maker Maya Angelou.  

She’s championed by Robert Rinder, the criminal barrister and television personality known to many from the reality courtroom series ‘Judge Rinder’ and more recently, ‘My Family, The Holocaust and Me’ who reveals the impact her story has had on his own life. Robert Rinder is joined by guest expert Laura Thompson, author of  the New York Times best seller, 'The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters'. 

Presented by Matthew Parris
Produced By Nicola Humphries for BBC Bristol

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