France’s Original Culture War: The Dreyfus Affair | Andrew Roberts | Hoover Institution
Catherine Ostler joins Andrew Roberts to discuss her new book The Renoir Girls, which unravels the extraordinary true story behind Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s famous portraits of the Cahen d’Anvers sisters — a tale that stretches from the glittering salons of Belle Époque Paris and the fury of the Dr...
Art, Women, and Europe in Turmoil
In this episode, Veronique Forge-Karibian, advisor to the Milken Institute, a non-partisan economic thinktank, is joined by Natalie Livingstone, author of The Women of Nuremberg, alongside Catherine Ostler, author of The Renoir Girls, and Julia Fishel, Sotheby’s Head of Modern Day Sales. Together...
Catherine Ostler: The Renoir Girls
It is impossible to tell from Renoir’s celebrated portrait of two delightful, pampered-looking girls that its subject — and their family at large — are destined for a horrible end; one of the girls would be murdered in Auschwitz, by then an elderly lady. The world of Catherine Ostler's The Renoir...
Elizabeth Chudleigh - Bigamist
Lucy Worsley is back with a new series where courtroom drama meets history…with a twist. In Lady on Trial we hear the voices of women from the past who end up in court charged with everything from murder, adultery and theft to civil disobedience. And Lucy is asking if their true crime could have...
Catherine Ostler, THE RENOIR GIRLS: A Hidden History of Art, War & Betrayal
The newly minted New York Times bestseller The Renoir Girls by Brit Catherine Ostler tells a hidden story of what really happened to the young girls in Renoir’s famous portraits. As it turns out, they were victims of the Holocaust. How could these high-society children have ended up suffering, on...
Catherine Ostler on The Renoir Girls: Hidden Lives Behind One of Renoir’s Most Famous Paintings
Many of us have stood in a museum before a beautiful portrait of a child and wondered: Who was she? Who did she grow up to be?
In The Renoir Girls: A Hidden History of Art, War & Betrayal, journalist and author Catherine Ostler traces the astonishing lives of Irène, Alice and Elisabeth Cahen d...
Missouri’s Congressional Map Upended, An Alaskan Town’s Fight for a Road & the Tragedy Behind a Renoir Masterpiece
Tonight on America At Night with McGraw Milhaven, St. Louis University Law Professor Greg Willard breaks down the latest developments surrounding Missouri’s redrawn congressional maps after they were tossed out weeks before voting begins, along with the legal battle involving the state’s secretar...
That Time Agatha Christie Went Missing
On a chilly December evening in 1926, British crime author Agatha Christie walked out of her house, got in her car and drove away. When she didn't return home that night her house staff grew concerned. When her car was found the following morning, halfway down a grassy embankment with her driver'...
Winne-the-Pooh at 100, and Renoir in Love review
As A A Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh, one of the most loved bears in children's literature reaches 100, Jane Riordan, author of the new Pooh books, and Hollie Piff, EH Shepard archivist at the University of Surrey discuss the appeal of the 'bear of very little brain'.
Poet and writer Luke Kennard on hi...
Spectator Out Loud: Catherine Ostler, Paul Wood, John Power & David Whitehouse
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Catherine Ostler, the former editor of Tatler, ponders the drama of the courtroom as she travels around the Kent countryside; following the news of the ceasefire with Iran, Paul Wood says that no-one knows what Trump will do next; John Power encourages Gen Z men...
