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Radio 4 Extra,01 Oct 2001,15 mins

Available for 30 days

The story of female impressionist painter Berthe Morisot told 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. Jane Beeson's five-part series. Berthe ... Sarah-Jane Holm Cornelie ... Pauline Munro Manet ...Simon Chandler Edma .... Alison Pettitt Guichard .... Robert Lister Woolf ... Ian Brooker Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Peter Leslie Wild. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001.

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