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

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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.