'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.

In this episode the Surrealist Objects and Poems exhibition which included the works Lee Miller and Roland had been collaborating on opens. Lee in Egypt is feeling isolated from the art world.

'It’s nice that you think of and save me from isolation from that particular world - - - so far my contacts with people in Egypt are most unproductive, the only person who knows or cares about any of the pictures and people in which I am concerned and interested in is Robin Fedden --- other than Aziz, who just doesn’t care, and the customs examiner who knows them all by heart' wrote Lee Miller, Cairo, Egypt 23rd 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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