The arts are alive and kicking in Britain. I know because I've taken most of the kicking.
Lord Gowrie's remark in a recent House of Lords debate on the arts was a rueful acknowledgement of the turbulence over funding in the arts in the last few months.
Michael Oliver interviews the Minister for the Arts and the Chairman of the Arts Council, Sir William Rees-Mogg , about their reactions to widespread criticism from the subsidised arts.
Producer RICHARD DUNN Editor THOMAS SUTCLIFFE