Madeleine Riffaud, Chris Topp, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Dr Julian Litten
Matthew Bannister on resistance fighter Madeleine Riffaud, blacksmith Chris Topp, author Barbara Taylor Bradford, historian Dr Julian Litten
Matthew Bannister on
Madeleine Riffaud, the French resistance fighter who was tortured by the Gestapo, became a journalist and was embedded with the Vietcong in Vietnam.
Chris Topp, the blacksmith who restored ironwork at Buckingham Palace, York Minster and St Paul鈥檚 Cathedral.
Barbara Taylor Bradford, the best-selling author of A Woman of Substance and many other novels.
Dr Julian Litten, whose fascination for the rituals surrounding death led to him being called 鈥淓ngland鈥檚 foremost funerary historian鈥.
Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies
Archive:
General Charles De Gaulle speech, 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio, 22/06/1940; Algerian War: 70 Years On, News Report actuality, France 24, 01/11/2024; Panorama: Vietnam: The Other World ,麻豆官网首页入口 Television, 31/03/1969; Barbara Taylor Bradford, Desert Island Discs, 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 4, 11/07/2003; Reading: A Woman of Substance, HarperCollins Publishers UK SoundCloud Channel, Audio promo - Release date 25/10/2012; Barbara Taylor Bradford interview, Woman鈥檚 Hour, 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 4, 09/07/1999; Barbara Taylor Bradford interview, Saturday Live, 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 4, 30/11/2019; Reading: A Woman of Substance, HarperCollins Publishers UK SoundCloud Channel, Audio promo, Released date: 04/05/2017; BLACKSMITH'S CONTRACT: LOOK NORTH, 麻豆官网首页入口 One North East & Cumbria, 14/07/1995; Reading the Past / Writing the Future - Chris Topp (Blacksmith), Uploaded to Youtube 14/05/2014; Songs of Praise: Rite of passage, Bereavement, 麻豆官网首页入口, 05/11/2002, Red Heaven Oral History Archive, Julian Litten talks with Dr Simon Machin, 14/03/2021; 麻豆官网首页入口 News at One, 麻豆官网首页入口, 26/03/2015
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