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Tete A Tete

First broadcast from 19970918 to 20060203. (* = BBC7).

Eleanor Bron reads from Hazel Rowley's biography of Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.

Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre are one of the world's most iconic couples. They had a notoriously open relationship and produced some of the century's most influential writing on modern thought.

12 episodes

Series	Episode	Title	First Broadcast	Repeated	Description
BOTW	01		20060130		The two meet as students at the Sorbonne.
BOTW	02		20060131		De Beauvoir introduces Sartre to one of her brightest students, Olga Kosakiewicz, who becomes the first young woman to join the couple's inner circle, known as 'the family'.
BOTW	03		20060201		After the Second World War, their first publications make them famous, but their private relationship becomes precarious. De Beauvoir begins a love affair with American writer Nelson Algren.
BOTW	04		20060202		Sartre's refusal to accept the Nobel Prize causes controversy.
BOTW	05 LAST		20060203		The two writers' funerals each cause a widespread outpouring of public grief.
SS		Never Trust Women Who Want To Get Too Friendly With You,	19970918		By Jean Wrist, read by Gwen Taylor. Mother was not one to gossip. `Never trust women who want to get too friendly with you,' she would say, and she stuck rigidly to this until the day she agreed to meet Mrs Pring in town for tea.
	01			* 20090629, * 20090630	Writers Simone De Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre's iconic relationship begins. Writers Simone De Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre's iconic relationship begins. Eleanor Bron reads Hazel Rowley's biography.
	02			* 20090630, * 20090701	Simone de Beauvoir introduces Jean Paul Sartre to Olga, one of her best students. Simone de Beauvoir introduces Jean Paul Sartre to Olga, one of her best students. Eleanor Bron reads Hazel Rowley's biography.
	03			* 20090701, * 20090702	Writers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre find fame - and other lovers. Writers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre find fame - and other lovers. Eleanor Bron reads Hazel Rowley's biography.
	04			* 20090702, * 20090703	Refusing a Nobel Prize, Jean Paul Sartre begins a secret love affair. Read by Eleanor Bron Refusing a Nobel Prize, Jean Paul Sartre begins a secret love affair. Eleanor Bron reads Hazel Rowley's biography.
	05
	05 LAST			* 20090703, * 20090704	Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre's notorious lives and loves must end. Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre's notorious lives and loves must end. Eleanor Bron concludes Hazel Rowley's biography.