When Edouard Manet's painting Olympia is hung in the Salon of Paris in 1865, it is met with jeers, laughter, criticism, and disdain. It is attacked by the public, the critics, the newspapers.

Art historian Hannah Gadsby presents her radio series of comedy lectures about four masterpieces, kicking things off with Édouard Manet's iconic Olympia. Hannah shares her first encounter with Olympia ...