Life Matters

Hephzibah Menuhin was the younger sister of the famous violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin, but her life has received much less attention than her famous
brother's.

Although Hephzibah was a brilliant pianist she chose not to devote her whole life to her musical gift.

She married an Australian sheep farmer before her twentieth birthday, later leaving her sons and returning to England in her thirties and becoming an activist and community worker.

Her extraordinary life is told in the first ever biography An Exacting Heart.

This interview was first broadcast February 6 2008.

Guests

Jacqueline Kent
Biographer

Publications

Title: An Exacting Heart: The Hephzibah Menuhin Story
Author: Jacqueline Kent
Publisher: Penguin Viking

Presenter

Richard Aedy

Producer

Amanda Armstrong

Story Researcher and Producer

Amanda Armstrong

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