# Don’t eat your deadly greens Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/stories-in-colour-7344920/don-t-eat-your-deadly-greens Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/stories-in-colour-7344920/don-t-eat-your-deadly-greens.md Podcast: [Stories in Colour](https://stenobird.com/podcast/stories-in-colour-7344920) Published: 2025-06-17T23:15:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/podcast Audio file: https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/d09df000-fb5a-4653-9ae0-10f8b4df10a0.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/stories-in-colour-7344920/episodes/don-t-eat-your-deadly-greens Duration seconds: 3626 ## Resource Why does the colour green remind you of poison and radioactivity? We're telling the story of two toxic green pigments to find out. Their stories interact with artists like Berthe Morisot, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris, as well as the less likely figure of Napoleon Bonaparte. And we go for a very good nosy around Victorian libraries.  Join cultural historian Kassia St Clair and National Gallery host Beks Leary to ask just how deadly these historic pigments really are!  Kassia is the author of books including 'The Secret Lives of Colour', 'The Golden Thread' and 'Liberty: Design. Pattern. Colour'. She specialises in telling stories about the overlooked and every day.  ----- Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9PIn-7FesV8 You can email us with any questions via podcast@nationalgallery.org.uk Find out more about the podcast on our website: www.nationalgallery.org.uk/podcast ----- To take our short survey about the podcast please visit: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/podcast   ----- Paintings mentioned: Camille Pissarro, ‘The Côte des Bœufs at L'Hermitage’, 1877. The National Gallery, London https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/camille-pissarro-the-cote-des-boeufs-at-l-hermitage    Edouard Manet, ‘Music in the Tuileries Gardens’, 1862. The National Gallery, London https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/edouard-manet-music-in-the-tuileries-gardens    Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ‘Veronica Veronese’, 1872. The Delaware Art Museum © Delaware Art Museum / Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial / Bridgeman Images https://emuseum.delart.org/objects/321/veronica-veronese    Berthe Morisot, ‘Summer’s Day’, about 1879. The National Gallery, London https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/ber… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/stories-in-colour-7344920/episodes/don-t-eat-your-deadly-greens/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/stories-in-colour-7344920/don-t-eat-your-deadly-greens.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.