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Interview: Susan Nagel discusses her new biography of Mary Nisbet, "The Mistress of the Elgin Marbles"
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JENNIFER LUDDEN
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
09-05-2004
Interview: Susan Nagel discusses her new biography of Mary Nisbet, "The Mistress of the Elgin Marbles"
Host: JENNIFER LUDDEN
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM
JENNIFER LUDDEN, host:
The Olympics have come and gone from Athens, lauded as a great success for the host country. But Greece did not achieve one key goal; it had hoped that all the international attention would prompt Britain to return to Greece the treasured Elgin marbles. Two hundred years ago, Lord Elgin, Britain's ambassador to the Ottoman Turks, had the sculpted figures removed from ...
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Interview: Susan Nagel discusses her new biography of Mary Nisbet, "The Mistress of the Elgin Marbles"
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