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Episode 3: Impressions of Honfleur, Reunions in Rouen

Impressions of Honfleur, Reunions in Rouen

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Misfits in France, Impressions of Honfleur, Reunions in Rouen

The series ends in Rouen, where Wilde rekindled his relationship with Douglas.

Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee trace Oscar Wilde to Rouen, where he rekindled his relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas.

Series in which Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee explore the connections between a group of Victorian writers and artists who crossed the English Channel for different reasons.

The series ends in Rouen, where Oscar Wilde rekindled his relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas after a lonely summer in exile outside Dieppe. The museum in Rouen also holds a collection of paintings by Monet, Sisley and Walter Sickert's friend and patron - Jacques Emile Blanche.

Oscar Wilde ...... Simon Russell Beale 
Claude Monet ...... Jonathan Tafler  
Walter Sickert ...... Stephen Critchlow.

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Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee on the Victorian writers and artists who went to France

Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee explore the connections between a group of Victorian writers and artists who crossed the English Channel for different reasons

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