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EPISODE · Apr 5, 2018 · 13 MIN

Alastair Campbell on 'Madame Bovary'

from The Essay · host BBC Radio 3

Tony Blair's former spokesman, on how Gustave Flaubert's novel gave him a lifetime love of French culture. "It is a love that has endured. I like reading French, speaking French, listening to French. Every year of my adult life, I have spent a part of it in France, and the older I get, the more freedom I seem to have to go there, and so the more I exploit that freedom." Producer: Smita Patel.

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