Book of the Week - The Blue Hour
Lillian Pizzichini's biography of the author Jean Rhys, best known for the 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea
Book of the Week - The Blue Hour - Episode 1
Jean will one day lead a dramatic and colourful life in Paris, Vienna and London, but life begins for her on the Windward Island of Dominica.
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Book of the Week - The Blue Hour - Episode 2
Arriving from the West Indies at the age of 17, Jean is sent to a chilly girls' school in Cambridge.
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Book of the Week - The Blue Hour - Episode 3
Pooky Quesnel reads from Lillian Pizzichini's biography of the author Jean Rhys. Jean becomes a chorus girl in Edwardian London and learns about love the hard way.
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Book of the Week - The Blue Hour - Episode 4
Pooky Quesnel reads from 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.
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Book of the Week - The Blue Hour - Episode 5
It is now the 1930s and Jean has become an established writer, but it will be 30 years before she delivers her best-known work, Wide Sargasso Sea.
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