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Traveller’s Century – Benedict Allen seeking Patrick Leigh Fermor
Many will be aware of Benedict Allen’s 2008 BBC documentary where he follows Paddy’s journey and eventually gets to meet with Paddy at Kardamyli. It is rarely shown and unavailable on iPlayer. However,...
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Travellers’ Century: Patrick Leigh Fermor now on YouTube
The event at Waterstones on Thursday with Benedict Allen introducing his 2008 film about Paddy’s life and work was a great success. Organised by Barnaby Rogerson of Eland Publishing (who specialise in...
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My Meeting with the Byron of Our Times
A curious mix of over the top homage to Paddy; criticism of Billy Moss’ “stilted” writing style; accusation that the editors of Abducting a General produced a “short, blatantly padded book” with the...
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Among the Quick and the Dead
If you are coming to the end of a celebrated life, chances are that someone has already suggested writing your biography – a thought, as Oscar Wilde pointed out, that lends a new terror to death. The...
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El último aventurero romántico
A profile in Spanish from El Pais. The Spaniards appear to have a great interest in Paddy and his works, possibly encouraged by the translations of Dolores Payás, the author of Drink Time! which many...
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Paddy on Radio France-Culture
A broadcast on France Culture radio featuring Paddy speaking his best French, supported by Artemis Cooper and her father John Julius Norwich. Lovely to hear Paddy speaking and also to brush up some of...
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John Humphrys presents Paddy’s world on BBC Radio 4
A little while ago I was approached to help provide some background information to help with research for a one-off Radio 4 programme about Paddy and his life in and around Kardamyli which will be...
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The Man of the Mani – BBC Radio 4 Monday 22 June
Final scheduling for the John Humphrys’ BBC Radio 4 programme about Paddy is available on the BBC website. It will broadcast at 1600 hours on Monday 22 June and will be available later on the BBC...
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Paddy’s Irishness
This gets better as you read it. I wasn’t going to publish it but I thought you might like the second half at least 🙂 By Michael Duggan First published in the Irish Examiner 7 June 2016. Patrick Leigh...
View ArticleNoble Encounters between Budapest and Transylvania
In March 1934 a young man stood midway on a bridge over the Danube which connected Czechoslovakia and Hungary. He was taking stock of a world which, ten years hence, like the very bridge he stood on,...
View ArticlePaddy the Great, king of Greece
From the April 2018 edition of The Oldie magazine, a remarkable podcast interview with the late John Julius Norwich to celebrate the Charmed Lives in Greece retrospective exhibition at the British...
View ArticleThe Man of the Mani now on BBC Sounds
In 2015, the experienced BBC reporter and presenter, John Humphrys, hosted a BBC Radio 4 programme about Paddy’s life in the village of Kardamyli in the Mani, exploring his the life and work. The...
View ArticleThe Mani Sanctuary of A Hero-turned Scholar
Another profile of Paddy and the Mani from 2015, this time by by Sofka Zinovieff. First published in Greece Is. A modern-day Odysseus, Patrick Leigh – Fermor spent the most peaceful days of his...
View ArticleA paean to Paddy for his birthday
This short paean to Paddy was written in both English and Greek by the writer Maria Mavroyenneas on her Facebook page and shared to a Paddy Facebook group. It celebrates Paddy and marks his birthday on...
View ArticleMarking the 10th anniversary of the death of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor – My...
There are many excellent profiles of Paddy, but I have recently discovered this one by the prolific American biographer Jeffrey Myers. It includes some original quotes, with an interesting section...
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