Flâneuse: Women Who Walk the Cities

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Julianna Jennings

Lauren Elkin

Penny Leicester

Duncan Minshull

Flâneuse: Women Who Walk the Cities by Lauren Elkin: 1. New York

Flaneuse - Women Who Walk the Cities

1. New York

Flâneuse: Women Who Walk the Cities by Lauren Elkin

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Flâneuse: Women Who Walk the Cities by Lauren Elkin, 1. New York

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

4 Extra Debut. Author Lauren Elkin considers distinguished women as she strolls in Paris and New York. Read by Julianna Jennings. From 2016.

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

She loves the word FLANEUR and then the female version - FLANEUSE. But historically who were these types, and is there a flaneuse today? 

Lauren also recalls her youthful struggles to walk the New York suburbs.

Abridged in five parts by Penny Leicester.

Read by Julianna Jennings.

Producer: Duncan Minshull.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2016.

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