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Afternoon Play: Beyond the Canvas

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Judith Beheading Holofernes by Lucy Gough. The first of three drama-documentaries this week looking at the creation of specific paintings. Germaine Greertalks about Artemesia Gentileschi's dramatic interpretation of the apocryphal story of Judith's seduction and decapitation of the enemy leader Holofernes. The drama examines the events in Artemesia's private life which fed into the painting, and reflects on the problems of being a female artist in 17th-century Florence. A dramatic tale of an artist and her work. Producers Rosie Boulton and Peter Leslie Wild (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Lucy Gough.
Unknown:
Germaine Greertalks
Producers:
Rosie Boulton
Producers:
Peter Leslie Wild
Temesia:
Anna Chancellor
Tuzia:
Susan Jeffrey
Model:
David Perks

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