Today on From the Vault, we present selections from a 1976 marathon reading of The Alexandria Quartet, a critically acclaimed collection of four novels by Lawrence Durrell: Justine (1957), Balthazar (1958), Mountolive (1958), and Clea (1960). Produced for KPFK Los Angeles by Jay Kugelman, this broadcast of The Alexandria Quartet began on Christmas Day in 1976 and used eighty talented readers, including the likes of Peter Finch, Julie Christie, Samantha Eggar, Cloris Leachman, Roscoe Lee Browne, Sada Thompson, Brock Peters, and Will Geer to name a few.
Before we listen to the poetic and evocative writings of Lawrence Durrell, however, we speak with Don Kaczvinsky, who is Director of the School of Literature and Language at Louisiana Technical University, President of the International Lawrence Durrell Society, and, as you might expect, an expert on The Alexandria Quartet.
Special thanks to Jay Kugelman for his incredible work almost 35 years ago.
From the Vault is presented through the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project, funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, past grants from the Grammy
Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the American Archive funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with the generous support of Pacifica Radio Listeners.
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