NONESUCH
EXPEDITIONS FOUNDED
IN 1962
MARGARET MEE'S AMAZON
A
THEME CREATED BY TONY MORRISON
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AUDIO
- Four short clips from more than five hours of recording
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Here you will find .wma audio clips from recordings made in Margaret Mee's house in Santa Teresa a hillside suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. The recordings were made between January and March 1988 by Bob Nadkarni or Tony Morrison. They were made with Margaret's approval and as background for a television film. These clips look at the years before she left for Brasil. The clips will need Windows Media Player or similar for either PC or Mac |
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Scholars
and researchers please remember they are not for commercial use
© South American Pictures
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| Margaret Mee describes her life in rural Buckinghamshire a county in England only a short distance from London. In those days back in early 1920's she was Peggy Brown and growing up in a cultured affluent, middle class family home. 747KB |
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| Margaret Mee describes her break from her first husband the political activist Reginald Bartlett and how she stayed in France in the dark days of 1939 when the Second World War was beginning. 1.8MB | |
| After the war Margaret began to attend St.Martins School of Art in central London, England and met commercial artist Greville Mee. 1.5 MB | |
| In this recording Tony Morrison asks Margaret about her move to Brasil. Athough she answers positively later conversations revealed the story was economical with the truth. 875KB | |
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