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The first Impressionist exhibition finally opens, and Berthe has to face the wrath of the reactionary critics. But her sister Edma offers a glimmer of light. Conclusion of Jane Beeson's series looking at female impressionist painter Berthe Morisot through her correspondence with her mother and sister. Berthe ... Sarah-Jane Holm Cornelie ... Pauline Munro Manet ...Simon Chandler Edma .... Alison Pettitt Guichard .... Robert Lister Woolf ... Ian Brooker Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Peter Leslie Wild. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001.
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