Paula Paula

Born in Portugal, Paula Rego is that great rarity a Britain artist with an international reputation. Her lasting reputation of is beyond doubt. Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate, describes her as a major figure that has "taken her own childhood experiences, memories, fantasies and fears, and given them universal significance". For Germaine Greer, whose 1995 portrait by Rego hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, her work is both feminist and subversive; "It is not often given to women to recognise themselves in painting, still less to see their private world, their dreams, the insides of their heads, projected on such a scale and so immodestly, with such depth and colour.

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Features audio interviews with Paula Yates she recorded after the death of her partner Michael Hutchence in 1997.

Paula works taking care of the children of a rich family that grow soja and her life takes a turn when, unexpectedly pregnant, she tries to find a safe way to abort in a country where abortion is illegal.

A unique insight into the life and work of celebrated painter Paula Rego directed by her son, film-maker Nick Willing. Notoriously private and guarded, Rego opens up for the first time, surprising her son with secrets and stories of her unique life, battling fascism, a misogynistic art world and manic depression. Born in Portugal, a country which her father told her was no good for women, Rego nevertheless used her powerful pictures as a weapon against the dictatorship before settling in London, where she continued to target women's issues such as abortion rights.

During the renovation of an old house in Amsterdam, a shoebox was found containing dozens of old postcards and letters from a young man named Flip Slier. He had written them during the year he spent in the Nazi concentration camps. In 1943, Flip was gassed in the Sobibor death camp in Poland.