Beyond 50 Radio Show

For Beyond 50's "Literary" talk, listen to an interview with Michelle Gable. She'll talk about her fictional story that's a straight-out-of-Hollywood plot line: someone - perhaps Indiana Jones - accidentally stumbles into a time capsule untouched by modernity and filled with treasures left by its past owners. In 2010, a 91-year-old woman died in the south of France, leaving behind an apartment in Paris. Her family tasked auctioneer Olivier Choppin-Janvry and his team with visiting the flat in the city's 9th arrondissement, near the Pigalle red-light district and the Opera Garnier, and inventorying its contents. When the unsuspecting experts unlocked the front door, they found it virtually untouched since before World War II. The biggest surprise was a never-before-seen painting by famed 19th-century Italian artist Giovanni Boldini. The subject of the photo, a woman perched on a lounge and shrouded in a pink satin evening gown, was 24-year-old Marthe de Florian, the apartment owner's grandmother who was a Be