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The Road is Wider than Long

on BBC Radio 3

Sir Roland Penrose at 80
1 I don't think I'd have ever become a surrealist in the ardent way that I did if I hadn't been born a Quaker.'
' Quakerism actually took you along the road which led to something very different? '
'I think it has. Certainly it's been very wide.'
Sir Roland Penrose , artist, poet and collector, talks to Edward Lucie Smith about the way his life and interests have been shaped by the people he has met, among them Picasso, Braque, Max Ernst , Andre Breton , Paul Eluard , John Maynard Keynes and Herbert Read. Reader
John Franklyn Robbins Radiophonic treatment MALCOLM CLARKE
Producer JUDITH BUMPUS
(The Arts Council touring exhibition is currently showing at the Arnolfini, Bristol, and will move to Preston and Hull)

Contributors

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Sir Roland Penrose
Artist:
Sir Roland Penrose
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Edward Lucie Smith
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Max Ernst
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Andre Breton
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Paul Eluard
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John Maynard
Reader:
Herbert Read.
Reader:
John Franklyn Robbins
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Malcolm Clarke
Producer:
Judith Bumpus

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