Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Radio 4 Extra

Journey into the Radio 4 archive.

LIVE,08:45 - 09:00

A Monkey With a Box of Paints: Berthe Morisot

2. Passion

UP NEXT: 09:00 - 09:30
Stand-Up Specials
Modern masculinity. How do men deal with pregnancy?
09:30 - 09:45
An Almanac for Anxiety: In Search of a Calmer Mind
Exploring how wood can improve mental wellbeing.

Berthe compares herself to Baudelaire, and Édouard Manet is impressed with her passion. As her sister settles into married domesticity, Berthe encounters a slightly more comical suitor of her own. Jane Beeson's series looking at female impressionist painter, Berthe Morisot through her correspondence with her mother and sister. 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.

Programme Website

More from 4Extra

Highlights