with Barry Cunliffe.
Television has brought politicians into all our homes. John Major and Neil Kinnock are as familiar to us as our next-door neighbours. Christopher Cook has been listening to Sir MaxBeerbohm's reminiscences of the elder statesmen of his youth in the 1880s. Half a century earlier, painter Benjamin Haydon had pestered Peel and Wellington to give financial support to the arts. Derek Parker browses through Haydon's diaries. Producer John Knight