Jan Morris, who died in 2020, led an
extraordinary life and was considered one of Britain's best loved travel
writers. In Robin Brooks's dramatisation, two of her works are
intertwined - 'Conundrum', the story of her transition from man to
woman, and 'Venice', her most famous travel book.

                           

Jan Morris’s Venice is widely regarded as
one the finest travel books ever written, and what better way to take
the listener on a longed-for escape into that magical city and its past.
 

                           

However, underneath the mysterious
surface of the city conjured in Morris’s work lies a hidden theme.
Morris wrote Venice as a married family man, but all the time she was
grappling with the life-long knowledge that she had been born in the
wrong body and, not long after publishing Venice, she embarked on her
ten-year transition.

                           

So we use Venice as a gilded literary
barge on which to float Conundrum, Morris’s beautifully written and very
moving account of her transition.