The first of two extracts from the conversation of .lames Northcote. RA, with William Hazlitl selected and introduced by Derek Parker with On Lord Byron: ' . . . he had mis-shapen feet. And it made him write verses in revenge.'
On Dr Johnson: He looked down on the rest of the world as pygmies.' On women artists: ' It's not that women are not very clever (cleverer than many men), but there is a point of excellence which they never reach.' Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT