'I'm very interested In tattooing. Quite often when we're in the pub and there's sailors in there - some of them have a lot of tattoos - and I've had enough to drink, I ask them if I can have a look and they're always pleased to show me. I think its a most interesting form of folk art.'
The painter Beryl Cook talks with Edward Lucie -Smith about . how she began her career as a painter when she was running a seaside boarding-house, and about the markets, pubs, nightclubs and people she paints. Producer JUDITH bumpus (Adrian Henri : 18 Jan)