Jan Morris's Venice
Selina Cadell reads some of Jan Morris's travel writing about Venice, the city with which Henry James had 'a perpetual love affair'.
Henry James felt that the inevitable relationship with Venice was "a perpetual love affair", and certainly many writers have found that to be true.
In today's piece about the city, travel writer Jan Morris notes particularly the children of Venice - and the cats. The reader is Selina Cadell, and the programme is abridged and produced by Christine Hall.
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