Lee Miller's life and career explored in new Gresham College podcast – available now

The story behind Lee Miller's photography is explored in a new Gresham College podcast, which has just been released.

Her son Antony Penrose came to Gresham College in February to deliver the lecture Lee Miller's Indelible Images. In it, he shared why his mother responded to the Holocaust in the way she did, the impact it had on her, and the work he has done to authenticate her evidence as a witness – evidence she deliberately left for us in the hope it would help prevent history repeating.

The lecture was incredibly popular, and we invited him back to record a special Gresham College Podcast. Hosted by Jeoffrey Sarpong, the show is an opportunity for Antony to reveal more about  the "life-changing" moment when he discovered the archives.

"I had to completely re-evaluative my mother's life, what kind of person she had been and what kind of achievement she had had," Anthony says of the 60,000 negatives discovered while searching for some pictures of him as a baby.

The find led to him researching the book Lee Miller's War, visiting the people who had known her over the years, and helping him build up a picture of who Lee Miller really was.

Of her pictures of the liberation of the concentration camps, he said: "She was determined to show the world what had happened to these people."

The podcast ends with some of your questions, submitted as part of his lecture but due to time constraints unable to be asked.

Watch the recording here - or listen via your favourite podcast platfrom from 4pm, Saturday 14 March 2026.