Return to Paris

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Return to Paris by Colette Rossant: 2. A Promise Broken and Student Life

Return to Paris by Colette Rossant

2. A Promise Broken and Student Life

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Return to Paris by Colette Rossant, 2. A Promise Broken and Student Life

Teenage years after the Second World War – and a farmers market.

Teenage years after the Second World War – and a farmers market. Colette’s recollections of France. Read by Barbara Flynn.

Teenage years after the war – and a farmers market. 

Colette Rossant, celebrated New York food writer and bestselling author of Apricots on the Nile, continues her memoirs in Return to Paris. 

She mixes vibrant memories of her teenage years in France after the Second World War with mouth-watering descriptions of meals that changed her life. 

Read by Barbara Flynn

Abridged by Penny Leicester

Producer: Gemma Jenkins

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2003.

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Colette Rossant, celebrated New York food writer, remembers life in post-war Paris

Colette Rossant, celebrated New York food writer and author, remembers life and meals in post-war Paris. Read by Barbara Flynn.

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