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Radio 4,16 Jan 2007,30 mins

Martha Gellhorn

Great Lives

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Matthew Parris talks to editor of web gossip column Popbitch, Camilla Wright and biographer Caroline Moorhead about why the war reporter Martha Gellhorn, who covered the Spanish Civil War, WW2 and Vietnam, should be nominated for Great Lives status.

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