Lee Miller and Roland Penrose: Love Letters Bound in Gold Handcuffs

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'When you look at your parents or grandparents it's hard to imagine them as young lovers full of adventure' Ami Bouhassane reads and shares love letters from her grandmother Lee Miller, held in the Lee Miller's Archives.


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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Lee Miller and Roland Penrose: Love Letters Bound in Gold HandcuffsBy Lee Miller Archives