André Malraux: the Man and the Mask
Novelist, Spanish Civil War volunteer, a rather late-coming French Resistance leader, Gaullist minister and encyclopaedic writer about art, also a thief, a liar, a myth maker and, for leftists, a turncoat, Andre Malraux remained controversial 16 years after his death when this programme was made. Richard Mayne explores Malraux's contradictions, with contributions from friends, family, admirers and critics: his widow Madeleine, and his adopted son Alain, his biographer Jean Lacouture , the late Raymond Aron , film historian Michel Ciment , Professor Marc Fumaroli , Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich, writers Claude Sarraute, Jean-François Revel , Olivier Todd , and Louvre curator Pierre Rosenberg.
Reader John Moffatt.
Producer: Judith Bumpus
Broadcast: Fri 20th Mar 1992, 21:30 on BBC Radio 3
