Composers, aristocrats, bankers and writers were among the subjects painted by Ingres, the leading portraitist of his age. Paul Allen discusses his work and the insight it gives into 19th-century French history as a major exhibition opens at the National Gallery in London. Plus first-night news from the opening of Alan Ayckbourn 's new version of Ostrovsky's tragicomic satire on Russian life, The Forest.
Producer Doug Traill-Stevenson