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Sophie Oliver takes us inside the remarkable home of the American novelist, poet and playwright Gertrude Stein and her partner Alice Toklas in Paris to look at the material objects they cherished - from an embroidered waistcoat that Alice made for Gertrude to a fabric sculpture of their pet poodle, Basket, that Picasso made for Gertrude by way of an apology.

Using the objects, she takes listeners inside Stein’s artistic and literary world; her queer life with Alice; and her object-obsessed poetry. She reflects on what these objects meant to Gertrude and Alice and how they built a life with them, and she considers if the home is always a place of refuge.

Contributors

Victoria Avery, Keeper of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Laynie Brown, poet, prose writer, artist, editor and teacher at University of Pennsylvania.

Liesl Olson, author of Modernism and the Ordinary (Oxford, 2009) and Director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at the University of Illinois Chicago.

Hannah Roche, Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at the University of York.

Music by Tom Parkinson

Objects courtesy of Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, and Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University

Producer
Mohini Patel

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