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Portrait of a Marriage

Broadcast: July 19-Aug. 2, 1992. Account of the remarkable marriage of diplomat Sir Harold Nicolson and writer/gardener extraordinaire Vita Sackville-West --from a memoir by their son Nigel Nicolson. Story centers on their early years together and on Vita's long infatuation and affair with friend Violet Trefusis.
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