Misha Glenny
speaker
1,378 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Sep
Misha Glenny’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Da Vinci started work on the Mona Lisa.
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Tell us about Hafron.
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Ah, here comes Martha with an offer for tea.
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This is In Our Time from BBC Radio 4, and this is one of more than a thousand episodes you can find in the In Our Time archive.
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A reading list for this edition can be found in the episode description wherever you're listening.
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I hope you enjoy the programme.
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Hello.
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The portrait painter, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1755 to 1842, delighted her high society subjects, showing them at their very best, notably Marie-Antoinette, who she painted around 30 times.
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Some claimed Vigée Le Brun's paintings were so good only because a man must be finishing them for her, while some were affronted that she, a young woman, dared to paint at all.
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Yet Vigée Le Brun was indomitable, journeying from one European court to another after the French Revolution, and today her works are on show in major galleries around the world.
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With me to discuss Vigée Le Brun are Rosalind Polly Blakesley, Master of Pembroke College and Professor of Russian and European Art at the University of Cambridge,
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Francesca Whitlam Cooper, can you give us a bit about Vigée Le Brun's background?
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Take us back to Paris in the second half of the 18th century.
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So she is encouraged by her father but what opportunities are there for young women who have a talent for painting?
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So she starts her career at a relatively young age.
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But Polly Blakesley, how on earth does she become the portraitist for Marie Antoinette, her main portraitist?
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Just out of interest, how on earth did Marie-Therese in far-off Vienna get to hear of somebody like Vigée Libre?
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Yes, one thing I noticed about the early portraits of Marie Antoinette is I thought I could still detect the Habsburg jaw and the droopy lip, which seemed to disappear a little over time.
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We don't go in for portraits nowadays quite so much.
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Of course, we photograph everything we see.
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