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Radio 3,3 mins

Tom Hiddleston reads Proust

Words and Music

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Actor Tom Hiddleston delivers Proust's powerfully evocative description of the journey of memory provoked by the taste of simple tea and cake. This reading from Remembrance of Things Past, Volume One originally featured in an episode of Radio 3's Words and Music on the subject of Memory. The photograph was taken by James Birtwistle.

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