Misha Glenny

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1,394 appearances 20 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 4d ago

Misha Glenny’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 20 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 6.

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In Our Time · Vigée Le Brun · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

Can you tell us the story of that painting? voice-verified

Do we know at all why that happened? voice-verified

And I went to see the portrait in the National Gallery and the two, the Rubens and the Vigée Le Brun, are more or less next to each other. voice-verified

Yes. voice-verified

So you can compare. voice-verified

Polly Blakeslee, she built up this very successful career in Paris with the collaboration, to some extent, of Marie Antoinette. voice-verified

And then, of course, in a blink of an eye, it's over. voice-verified

The French Revolution happens. voice-verified

What does she do? voice-verified

How does she survive and thrive? voice-verified

Surely not. voice-verified

So Vienna, of course, was a very lively place at the time. voice-verified

But we'll come on to St. voice-verified

Petersburg. voice-verified

Robert Wenley, let's go back to Naples because there she meets Emma Hamilton. voice-verified

So, Francesca, what was it that people were expecting when they commissioned Vigée Le Brun to paint them? voice-verified

What could she do for you that other portraitists wouldn't? voice-verified

Yes, looking at all her work, she manages to convey an emotion each time. voice-verified

And it struck me as rather modern and rather daring and actually rather forward looking. voice-verified

Polly, we got to Vienna where she runs into a lot of Russian oligarchs or princes or whatever they were at the time. voice-verified

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