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Flâneuse: Women Who Walk the Cities

Julianna Jennings

Lauren Elkin

Penny Leicester

Duncan Minshull

Flâneuse: Women Who Walk the Cities by Lauren Elkin: 5. Florence

Flaneuse - Women Who Walk the Cities

5. Florence

Flâneuse: Women Who Walk the Cities by Lauren Elkin

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Flâneuse: Women Who Walk the Cities by Lauren Elkin, 5. Florence

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

Lauren Elkin recalls 'Jinx Allen' and Ruth Orkin in Florence. Then it's back to New York. Concluded by Julianna Jennings.

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

There's an intriguing photograph of 'Jinx Allen', taken in Florence by Ruth Orkin, and its mysteries are now revealed. 

Then some reveries after wandering the sidewalks of New York.

Concluded by Julianna Jennings.

Abridged by Penny Leicester.

Producer: Duncan Minshull

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2016.

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