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Book of the Week

Jean Rhys - The Blue Hour

Episode 2

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Lillian Pizzichini's biography of the author Jean Rhys. Arriving from the West Indies at the age of 17, Jean is sent to a chilly girls' school in Cambridge. Read by Pooky Quesnel. Show more

Book of the Week

Jean Rhys - The Blue Hour

Episode 3

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Lillian Pizzichini's biography of the author Jean Rhys. Jean becomes a chorus girl in Edwardian London and learns about love the hard way. Read by Pooky Quesnel. Show more

Book of the Week

Jean Rhys - The Blue Hour

Episode 4

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Lillian Pizzichini's biography of the author Jean Rhys. Now married but still penniless, things start to look up for Jean when she moves to Vienna in 1920. Read by Pooky Quesnel. Show more

Book of the Week

Jean Rhys - The Blue Hour

Episode 5

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Lillian Pizzichini's biography of author Jean Rhys. Jean has become an established writer, but it will be 30 years before she delivers her best-known work. Read by Pooky Quesnel. Show more