Helen Chambers
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180 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4 Jun
Helen Chambers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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No, that's fairly remarkable, although there may be things that were lost.
I should perhaps say about his writing practices that when he was writing Radetzky Marsh and he was drinking quite a lot, he left chapter four in a taxi.
And he never got it back.
So he had to write it again.
And it's an extremely good chapter.
I mean, all of the chapters are good, but that is also remarkable in its way in terms of his working practice.
But he kind of held court, you know, people gathered around him and they would not want to interrupt him.
And he would say, no, on you go, on you go, on you go.
And then sometimes he would just join the conversation, but he'd be writing again.
At the same time, yeah.
Well, should we say that he left Germany in 1933 and went into exile?
Because his books were being burnt.
But I mean, how did he live?
Well, he borrowed money.
In 1927, Stefan Zweig, who was a great bestseller, major literary figure, pots of money, wrote to Josef Roth and said, I've just read your Wandering Jews.
It's wonderful.
And Rote got back to him and sort of sponged off him for the rest of his life.
Although Zweig didn't manage to pay for all that Rote needed.
Although he did put him up quite often in south of France or sometimes they were in Austria.
I think sometimes they were in Ostend.
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