Nairn's Journeys

S1 E31971

With Good News from Ghent

Episode Synopsis

Browning's poem 'How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix' is the theme behind the third in this series of European journeys. While attempting to discover whether or not Browning did actually make the journey across Belgium, Ian Nairn finds experiences both pleasurable and sad in this country tinted with a feeling of happy madness.

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