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Sunday Feature: At Home with Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas

Series 1, episode 0

Sophie Oliver presents a tour of the remarkable home of American novelist, poet and playwright Gertrude Stein and her partner Alice Toklas in Paris. She looks at the material objects they cherished, from an embroidered waistcoat that Alice made for Gertrude, to a series of stationery items and 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 27 Rue de Fleurus and into Stein's artistic and literary world, which expanded well beyond Paris