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World Service,21 May 1992,28 mins

Sir Harold Acton

Meridian

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Anglo-Italian writer, scholar and dilettante Sir Harold Acton, who sought to identify himself with creative spirits, died last weekend at the age of 89. Meridian delves into his Memoirs of an Aesthete.

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