On the day of recording, Claire was leaving the Wilton Way Café to return to Australia, where she lived before coming to London, and Claire is French! Enough reason, perhaps, to dedicate the whole of this 37th edition to some of the magnificent literary and musical outpouring of the people of France. These, though, are just the books and songs that came out when Charles Adrian gave his library a shake. He reads two of the books in French so you can think of this, if you will, as a masterclass.
'Thérèse Desqueyroux'' by François Mauriac
'Salambô by Gustave Flaubert
'Hiroshima Mon Amour' by Marguerite Duras
'The Devil In The Flesh (Le Diable Au Corps)' by Raymond Radiguet
