A Monkey With a Box of Paints (Omnibus)

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A Monkey With a Box of Paints: Berthe Morisot (Omnibus)

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BBC Radio 4 Extra - A Monkey With a Box of Paints: Berthe Morisot (Omnibus)

The life of female impressionist painter Berthe Morisot.

The life of female impressionist painter Berthe Morisot: through correspondence with her mother and sister. Stars Sarah-Jane Holm.

Jane Beeson tells the story of the female impressionist painter Berthe Morisot through her correspondence with her mother and sister.

As the first impressionist exhibition opens to the ridicule of the critics, the first stirrings of Berthe's talent are recalled with an early encounter with Édouard Manet.

Omnibus of five parts.

Berthe ... Sarah-Jane Holm
Cornelie ... Pauline Munro
Manet ...Simon Chandler
Edma .... Alison Pettitt
Guichard .... Robert Lister
Woolf ... Ian Brooker

Written by Jane Beeson.  

Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Peter Leslie Wild

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001.

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