Episode 3
Maud knows Nikitas had been researching the years of the Greek Civil War, and is becoming curious to know more about his family's troubled history.
Sofka Zinovieff's novel is set in contemporary Athens, but the story it tells takes us back to the bitter political divisions of post-war Greece. After Maud's Greek husband Nikitas dies in a mysterious car crash, she makes contact with his mother, Antigone, who has been living in exile in Moscow for nearly sixty years after abandoning Nikitas as a baby. Maud knows Nikitas has been researching the years of the Greek Civil War, and is becoming curious to know more about his family's troubled history.
Abridged by Sarah LeFanu.
Readers: Lucy Briers and Ann Beach
Producer: Sara Davies.
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- Wed 18 Apr 201222:45BBC Radio 4
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