Episodes
| Title | First Broadcast | Repeated | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ennui, By Shena Mackay | 20011205 | 20221217 (BBC7) 20221218 (BBC7) | The time of day when a man and a woman wonder why fate has cast them together in these lodgings'. Camden Town, London, 1913. Shena Mackay's short story based on Walter Sickert's Ennui. Read by Tilly Vosburgh. Producer Julia Butt First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. The story of Walter Sickert's painting set in London's Camden Town. |
| Madame Moitessier, By Giles Waterfield | 20011206 | 20221231 (BBC7) 20230101 (BBC7) | '...as an artist and lover of beauty, I have to say that Madame is one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. Beautiful, and good. You must allow me to paint her.' Giles Waterfield's short story based on Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's Madame Moitessier. Read by Anna Chancellor. Producer: Julia Butt A story based on Ingres's portrait of Madame Moitessier. Read by Anna Chancellor. |
| Olympia, By Susie Maguire | 20011204 | 20221210 (BBC7) 20221211 (BBC7) | Susie Maguire's short story based on Edouard Manet's ‘Olympia'. It's told through the eyes of the black cat seen at the foot of the bed on which the model, Victorine Meurent, poses naked for the artist in 1863. Read by Anton Lesser. Producer: Julia Butt The story of Manet's painting 'Olympia' as seen through the eyes of the artist's cat. |
| Sacrifice, By Rachel Cusk | 20011207 | 20230107 (BBC7) 20230108 (BBC7) | A man remembers a passionate affair he had with a German woman who taught him art history - and the ultimatum she gave him in relation to his wife and son. Rachel Cusk's contemporary short story based on Caravaggio's Italian Baroque painting, Sacrifice of Isaac. Read by William Gaminara. Producer: Julia Butt A contemporary interpretation of the Sacrifice of Isaac, by Caravaggio. |