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

Siwa the Oasis in the Desert


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In this episode of Love Letters Bound in Gold Handcuffs Lee Miller takes a trip to the desert Oasis of Siwa, a journey that inspired some of her most famous Surrealist images.


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