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World Service,11 Feb 1983,28 mins

Marguerite Yourcenar - A Coin in Nine Hands

Meridian

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Programme includes: the first women to elected to the Academie Francaise, Marguerite Yourcenar, author of A Coin in Nine Hands: The Captain's Doll, a film adaptation of DH Lawrence's short story starring Jeremy Irons: writer Ian McEwan on the oratorio Or Shall We Die, he wrote to music by composer Michael Berkeley. Presented by Sarah Dunant.

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