Artists 1939-45
A series of seven programmes
Memories of World War II recalled by artists and illustrated by their paintings.
3: Philip Meninsky
The fall of Singapore in February 1942 was one of the most humiliating defeats in British history. For Philip Menlnsky , a young commando, there began a three-year struggle to stay alive. Forced by the Japanese to work on the notorious Burma Railway, he managed to make a pictorial record of life in the jungle camps. His drawings of surgical instruments and artificial limbs made out of scraps of metal and bits of wood is a remarkable record of man's ingenuity under the most appalling circumstances.
Film editor PADDY WILSON Producer TOM CONWAY