Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-87) was the first woman to be elected to the illustrious Academie Française. This programme records an extended interview she gave the year before she died. At home, on the island off the coast of Maine where she lived as a virtual recluse from the 1930s on, she talks in depth about her life and work, which is illustrated with readings by actress Janet Suzman.