'When you look at your parents or grandparents it's hard to imagine them as young lovers full of adventure'

Conjuring up an extraordinary tale and extra depths to the famous photographer, Lee Miller, Ami Bouhassane shares her grandmothers love letters, held in the Lee Miller's Archives.

Episode 8. Suez Canal:

In this episode Lee Miller in Egypt and Roland Penrose in England celebrate Christmas and the new year in very different ways...

'I’m happy again beyond words at finding two letters from you on my table this afternoon when I got back from Cornwall, one which you wrote on Xmas night has come with such speed that it almost made up for the endless weeks that I have waited and again what marvellous letters! I have read them through twice already chuckling over your adventures and greatly moved by your descriptions particularly of the Sinai fishing trip.' Roland Penrose, 29th December 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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