Scenes from Working Lives Fourth of five programmes.
Tonight's programme features the work of three painters. In unique film of Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) at work, he describes the meaning of the supernatural events he painted in one of his most memorable pictures, The Resurrection in Cookham
Churchyard.
Graham Sutherland (1903-80), best known for his portraits of the famous, such as Winston Churchill and Somerset Maugham, and for his great tapestry design for Coventry Cathedral, began as a landscape artist. In sequences, shot between 1953 and 1979, he draws, paints, and talks about the elements that are constant in all his work.
Norman Cornish (born 1919) was a miner in County
Durham for 28 years. In 1963 he talked about the enduring world he knew and painted. Film editor CHRISTY HANNA Series compiled by CHRISTOPHER BURSTALL