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Radio 3,07 Nov 2018,14 mins

SeriesMinds at War: Series 5

Episode 3

The Essay

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The final run of Essays in the long-running series which explores the impact of the First World War on individual artists through the prism of a single great work of art. 3.Jane Potter on The Forbidden Zone, a depiction of nursing life at the Front by Mary Borden. Mary Borden was an Anglo-American novelist who served for four years as a nurse in a military hospital at the Front. Jane Potter celebrates a work which, like those of Sassoon, Graves, and Remarque, vividly depicts the horror of the Trenches and yet is far less well known. Producer; Beaty Rubens.

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