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The Birthday Treat

The Essay

To celebrate the 70th anniversary of Radio 3, five writers who also reach 70 years old in 2016 visit a place that has personal significance for them, reflecting on their feelings

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Marina Lewycka - Up the Eiffel Tower

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    A 1760s murder still informs ideas about aesthetics, a certain sort of sex, and death.

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