Lord Prescott, Stephanie Collie, Dame Janet Nelson, Frank Auerbach
Matthew Bannister on a politician, a costume designer, an historian and an artist.
Last Word · BBC Radio 4
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Show Notes
Matthew Bannister on
Lord Prescott, the working-class lad who became Deputy Prime Minister.
Stephanie Collie, whose costume designs for “Peaky Blinders” and “Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” inspired street fashion.
Dame Janet “Jinty” Nelson, the leading mediaeval historian who wrote an acclaimed biography of the Frankish King Charlemagne.
Frank Auerbach, one of the twentieth century’s finest artists. We speak to the art historian Catherine Lampert who sat for him every week for over forty years.
Producer: Ed Prendeville