'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 13. Wish you weren't so far off

In this episode Roland Penrose has had to leave Lee Miller early from their adventures in the Balkans to return to Paris and meet with Picasso. Lee Miller contiues her travels in Romania with Hari Brauner and Lena Constante. In the meantime world events move closer to the outbreak of war.

'Things in Europe seem to be going from bad to worse and I think a certain country is bent of making trouble and that nothing will stop them until there is a general bust up. I think you ought to leave Romania at once, it is certain to be one of the first countries to be drawn into the soup, and I wouldn’t advise coming out by the Orient Express which crosses too much dangerous country – better by Italy, Yugoslavia and Switzerland unless of course you take a plane or come round by sea.' letter extract, Roland Penrose 9th September 1938

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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