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

'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 19 – Bonus episode – And they all lived happily ever after? In this episode we find out what happened ne...

'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 18 – All my love to you In this episode Roland and Lee's love letters draw to an end, and the outbreak o...

'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 17 – Marco Polo In this episode Roland and Lee's adventures in Egypt together end and again they become...

'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 16 – Art and Liberty In this episode Lee forges stronger links with an important surrealist group in Cai...

'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 15 - It seems Mad that we should not be together In this episode Lee is still travelling whilst Roland i...

'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 14. He doesn't want to divorce me In this episode Lee Miller writes from Athens telling Roland about her...

'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 th...

'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 12. The Road is Wider than Long This episode features the journey that Lee Miller and Roland Penrose too...

'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 11. Everybody is Getting Jittery In this episode Lee is on her travelling adventures again with visits t...

'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 10. The Picasso Portrait In this episode Roland is anxious because he is not getting any letters from Le...

'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 9. Sister of All the Serpents In this episode Lee Miller writes to Roland about becoming the Sister of a...

'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...

'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 b...

'When you look at your parents or grandparents it's hard to imagine them as young lovers full of adventure' Ami Bouhassane reads and shares love letters from her grandmother, held in the Lee Miller's Archives. In this episode Lee and Roland collaborate further on Lee's Surrealist object for the International Surrealist Objects and Poems exhibition and Lee is back travelling in Egypt, visiting Wadi...

'When you look at your parents or grandparents it's hard to imagine them as young lovers full of adventure' Ami Bouhassane shares the love letters from her grandmother, held in the Lee Miller's Archives, conjuring up an extraordinary tale and extra depths to the famous photographer, Lee Miller. In this episode Roland tells Lee about what he hears is happening in Spain and Lee asks Roland to make a...

'Darling my love,  It’s three weeks today since that worst of all partings – three weeks less until I shall see you again. Your letter arrived this morning making me very happy and very miserable – miserable, because it is so little a letter when one wants you and because you don’t seem to be happy either – all that makes it more and more intolerable and absurd.' writes Roland on th...

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), Huss...

'Darling my love, I think of you all the time – day after day getting further from me back into your Egyptian world. Man’s photo of your lips disappearing into the Mediterranean is horribly symbolic but I haven’t even got your legs to console me – just paper objects and memories which I look over time and again thinking of the incredible happiness I have had and which I hope to have again.' wrote...

'When you look at your parents or grandparents it's hard to imagine them as young lovers full of adventure' Ami Bouhassane reads and shares love letters from her grandmother Lee Miller, held in the Lee Miller's Archives. 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 photo...

'When you look at your parents or grandparents it's hard to imagine them as young lovers full of adventure' Ami Bouhassane reads and shares love letters from her grandmother, held in the Lee Miller's Archives.     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 ph...