Topical arts magazine
Introduced by David Jones

Stripped Down to What's Real
'You may think it's a different reality, but when you've stripped the fur off an animal, you're down to the sinew, the blood and the flesh' - the human figure, violent, assaulted, caged like an animal: the images of Francis Bacon's paintings, art that cries out for your attention.
This week Bacon becomes the first English artist to be honoured in his lifetime by a major exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris. In tonight's film this reticent painter talks about his art and his view of life.

The King's Road to Park Lane
A large part of Belgravia and Mayfair - The Grosvenor Estate - has been in private ownership for the past 250 years. Over this time its appearance has naturally changed.
Terence Bendixson, architecture and planning journalist, looks at the strategy for the future proposed today by the Grosvenor Estate.

The Rambert goes on Tour
Tonight, to mark the Ballet Rambert's tour of the South and West, Joseph Scoglio dances a solo from the Rambert's attractive ballet, arranged to English 16th-century court music, 'Tis Goodly Sport.

(David Jones is a member of the RSC)
(Colour)