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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20000304
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RUNAWAY LIVES

(2.30pm R4 today)

Richard Holmes has struck on a neat idea, focusing on four famous literary elopements. In the first part, he recalls the exploits of the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who, in 1814, deserted his wife and baby and fled to the Swiss Alps with a mistress on either arm. The things he did for his art.

ON ASSIGNMENT WITH MAGGIE O'KANE

(7.45pm R4 today)

The true bravery - or foolhardiness? - of war correspondents is underlined by this programme, in which Maggie O'Kane looks back on her assignments in some of the most dangerous war zones known to man or woman. ...

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