A series made specially for audiences in the BBC regions and now seen countrywide.
Tonight, from BBC Scotland: The Icelandic Altarpiece
In 1899 a primitive altarpiece was bought from a tiny country church in Iceland by a wealthy Victorian gentlewoman from Scotland. What happened to it after that? And who was the mysterious buyer whose name alone w&s known - Mrs Disney Leith ?
Tonight Magnus Magnusson pursues the altarpiece - and the story of the remarkable Victorian heiress who inspired the poet Algernon Swinburne.
Film editor MIKE TOSH Producer DAVID MARTIN
Series co-ordinator FRANK GILLARD