Richard Cohen
Author and former Olympic fencer Richard Cohen discusses swordsmanship in Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers.
The next in the series in which writers look at how sports have been portrayed in the arts, from novels to painting, film to photography.
Today, author and former Olympic fencer Richard Cohen looks at swordplay in Dumas' 'The Three Musketeers'. From the first moment he encountered the Musketeers as a young boy, Cohen was hooked, and his ambitions to become the next D'Artagnan not to mention international fencing champion fully fuelled...
Producer: Justine Willett.
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