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Radio 4,22 Jul 2011,30 mins
Lucian Freud, Ahmed Wali Karzai, Hanna Segal, Roland Petit, Manuel Galban
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Matthew Bannister on The painter Lucian Freud - we evaluate his life and work and talk to three people who saw him paint. Also Ahmed Wali Karzai, half brother of the Afghan president and a noted powerbroker in the country. The French choreographer Roland Petit who created renowned works for his glamorous wife Zizi Jeanmaire. And Hanna Segal, the leading psychoanalyst who studied patients who suffered from psychosis and also worked to understand the artistic impulse.
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