'Darling my love, I think of you all the time – day after day getting further from me back into your Egyptian world. Man’s photo of your lips disappearing into the Mediterranean is horribly symbolic but I haven’t even got your legs to console me – just paper objects and memories which I look over time and again thinking of the incredible happiness I have had and which I hope to have again.' wrote Roland from Hampstead, London to Lee Miller, on the 9th October 1937.

The two lovers had spent a wonderful summer together and now find themselves going back to their old lives.

Roland is not getting letters from Lee and wonders if she has already forgotten him.

Guest Speakers: Antony Penrose (son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose and Co-Director of Lee Miller Archives), Hilary Roberts (Independent Curator, formerly senior curator of photography at Imperial War Museums, London), Hussein Omar (lecturer on Modern global history, University college Dublin) and Sam Bardaouil (Founder & curator of ArtReorientated).

Lee Miller's letters read and Presented by Ami Bouhassane

Roland Penrose's letters read by Adam Grayson

Music composed by David Cullen

Producer: Tolly Robinson

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