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Irma in Venice
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A PARALLEL JOURNEY
Profiles of Irma Kurtz and Mark Twain
MEDITERRANEAN TALES
VENICE: Tuesday 1 March 2005 7pm-7.10pm
ROME: Wednesday 2 March 2005 7pm-7.10pm

In this series, Irma Kurtz, commentator, agony aunt for Cosmopolitan and travel writer, goes on a literary odyssey around the Mediterranean. Following the route taken by Mark Twain in his classic travelogue The Innocents Abroad, Irma visits cities including Marseilles, Athens and Jerusalem and talks to the writers and artists of the region.
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