Dame Rebecca West at 80

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Writer Dame Rebecca West recalls literary figures and reporting from the Nuremberg Trials.

4 Extra Debut. Writer Dame Rebecca West recalls George Bernard Shaw, Ford Madox Ford and reporting from the Nuremberg trials. From 1972.

Author, journalist and critic Dame Rebecca West talks to Anthony Curtis.

Recorded to celebrate her 80th birthday, Dame Rebecca recalls personalities such as George Bernard Shaw, Harold Ross and Ford Madox Ford.

Plus events such as the Nuremberg trials, as well as assessing the contemporary literary scene.

Producer: Robert Fox

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1972.

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