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Barbara Cartland

Robert Robinson interviews novelist Barbara Cartland in 1979. She talks about her beginnings in journalism in the 1920s, sex and morals, and the sort of people who read her books.

Robert Robinson interviews Barbara Cartland, writer of romantic novels and health books, at her home in Hertfordshire in 1979.

She talks about her beginnings in journalism in the 1920s, sex and morals, health foods and vitamins, the sort of people who read her books, her record of love songs, prayer and her attitude to death.

Includes sequences of Cartland dictating to a secretary, talking to her chef, working with her secretaries, showing Robinson her collection of dust jackets from her novels and reciting a prayer to her sycophantic publisher.

30 minutes

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Sun 26 Oct 2008 22:25

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Presenter Robert Robinson

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