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The life of female impressionist painter Berthe Morisot: confidence and self-doubt in Paris. Stars Sarah-Jane Holm.

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.

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