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A Monkey with a Box of Paints

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

A five-part series by Jane Beeson looking at the female impressionist painter Berthe Morisot through her correspondence with her mother and sister.
1: As the first impressionist exhibition opens to the ridicule of the critics, the first stirrings of Berthe's talent are recalled with an early encounterwith Manet.
Director Peter Leslie Wild. Repeated from 10.45am

Contributors

Unknown:
Jane Beeson
Unknown:
Berthe Morisot
Director:
Peter Leslie Wild.
Berthe:
Sarah-Jane Holm
Cornelie:
Pauline Munro
Mane:
.Simon Chandler
Edma:
Alison Pettitt
> Guichard:
Robert Uster
Woolf:
Ian Brooker
Source: Radio Times

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