'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, held in the Lee Miller's Archives.

In this episode Lee and Roland collaborate further on Lee's Surrealist object for the International Surrealist Objects and Poems exhibition and Lee is back travelling in Egypt, visiting Wadi Natrum.

'I must tell you about your object – to begin with there are no wax hands of the right type in London. I found that after visiting a dozen or more shops, so I bought a wood one which has a really good shape and I painted it with the greatest care inspired by your hands which I can still see with some accuracy, but that was only half the job. The second hunt was for the teeth – finally after several false trails I found two old men, in white coats sitting in an attic making the most rosy pearly false jaws I’ve ever seen....' Roland Penrose, Hampstead – Sunday 21st November 1937

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

Series Producer: Tolly Robinson

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