Colette (Summer Repeat)

In Our Time

BBC

History

4.6 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the outstanding French writers of the twentieth century. The novels of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873 - 1954) always had women at their centre, from youth to mid-life to old age, and they were phenomenally popular, at first for their freshness and frankness about women’s lives, as in the Claudine stories, and soon for their sheer quality as she developed as a writer. Throughout her career she intrigued readers by inserting herself, or a character with her name, into her works, fictionalising her life as a way to share her insight into the human experience. With Diana Holmes Professor of French at the University of Leeds Michèle Roberts Writer, novelist, poet and Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia And Belinda Jack Fellow and Tutor in French Literature and Language at Christ Church, University of Oxford Producer: Simon Tillotson

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0:40.5	In our time is on its annual break and we'll be back on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds on
0:45.8	the 14th of September.
0:47.8	Until then, each week we're offering an episode from our archive of nearly 1,000 programmes
0:52.5	which I hope you'll enjoy.
0:54.4	Have a good summer.
0:56.0	Hello, Collette 1873 to 1954 was one of the outstanding French writers of the 20th century
1:02.5	and uniquely her novels always had women at their centre from youth to midlife to old age.
1:08.7	They were phenomenally popular at first for their freshness and frankness about women's
1:12.8	lives, as in the Claudian stories, but soon also for the sheer quality she developed as
1:17.8	a writer.
1:18.8	And throughout, she's intrigued readers by inserting herself or a character with her
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