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Grayson Perry on Nikolaus Pevsner

Episode 4 of 5

'The Englishness of English Art' was the theme of the 1955 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Reith lectures by art historian Nikolaus Pevsner. Sarah Montague discusses them with artist Grayson Perry.

"The Englishness of English Art" was the theme of the 1955 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Reith lectures by art historian Nikolaus Pevsner. Sarah Montague discusses them with Grayson Perry. the artist who himself was a Reith Lecturer in 2013. In Reith Revisited, Radio 4 assesses the contributions of great minds of the past to public debate, in a dialogue across the decades with contemporary thinkers. In 1948, households across Britain gathered before the wireless as the pre-eminent public intellectual of the age, the philosopher Bertrand Russell delivered a set of lectures in honour of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s founder, Lord Reith. Since then, the Reith Lectures on the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Service and subsequently Radio 4 have become a major national occasion for intellectual debate. In this series Radio 4 revisits five of the speakers from the first ten years of the Reith Lectures.
Producer: Neil Koenig
Researcher: Josephine Casserley.

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Sun 27 Aug 2023 17:40

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