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Sunday Miscellany: One Day with Marianne, by Joe Kearney

Meeting the great singer - and Sixties muse - in Paris, and sharing an Irish memory or two... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to One Day with Marianne, by Joe Kearney above.

There is something very special about Parisian light. On the day I met her, a late spring sun had just cleared the rooftops opposite Marianne Faithful's apartment.

It shone a spotlight on both her, and the chair on which she sat. Her endless cigarette smoke drifted upwards and made a halo above her head...

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