Marina Lewycka - Up the Eiffel Tower
Marina Lewycka takes a trip up the Eiffel Tower to reflect on a lifetime of visiting Paris
The Essay · BBC Radio 3
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Show Notes
To celebrate the 70th anniversary of Radio 3, the network invited five writers with whom it shares a birthday, also turning 70 this year, on a birthday outing. Our contributors chose to visit places that have some personal significance for them where they could look back and reflect on their feelings in this special birthday year.
Today, Ukrainian-British Novelist Marina Lewycka, best known for her 2005 novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian which won the 2005 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, takes a trip up the Eiffel Tower to reflect on a lifetime of visiting the city and a look at what the future holds for the Europe she loves.
Essayist and reader: Marina Lewycka Producer: Simon Richardson.