'Swish! Swish! Swish!'

by Patrick Leigh Fermor, read by Dominic West

Dominic West reads Patrick Leigh Fermor's piece about the olive harvest on the Mani peninsula, written in the 1950s but first published in 2021 in the LRB.

Read the piece here.

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