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Painted for Posterity: 2: Dinosaurs, Merry-go-rounds and a Drowned Village

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Patrick Wright continues his investigation into the Recording Britain project, the forties art scheme which despatched artists to paint aspects of the British landscape threatened with destruction by the Luftwaffe and by forces closer to home.
Kenneth Rowntree was sent to record views of the village of Ashopton, Derbyshire, which was about to vanish, despite protests, beneath the waters of the Ladybower reservoir.

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Presenter:
Patrick Wright
Unknown:
Kenneth Rowntreewas
Producer:
John Goudie

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