Picasso and the Surrealist summer

In the summer of 1937, some of the 20th Century's most famous artists, writers and photographers were holidaying in the south of France.

They included artist Pablo Picasso, photographer Lee Miller, poet Paul Éluard and the painter Man Ray.

The group were part of the Surrealist movement – a style of art inspired by dreams and hidden thoughts that can look strange and bizarre - and one of their most recent converts was artist Eileen Agar.

Through a 1985 BBC interview with Eileen, digital archivist Jonathan Charlton tells the story of that summer in an episode produced by Jane Wilkinson.

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(Photo: Roland Penrose, Ady Fidelin, Picasso and Dora Maar, Cote d’Azur, France 1937. Credit: Lee Miller Archives)