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Professional Portrait of a Potter: Bernard Leach

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on BBC Home Service Basic

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Written by Martin Chisholm.
Produced by W. Farquharson Small.
Narrator, Rosamund John

Bernard Leach is one of the leading artist-craftsmen in Britain today. Trained at the Slade School of Art he went as a young man to Japan. In Japan he rediscovered the glories of ancient Chinese and Korean pottery, and founded there a school of craftsmen potters. Since 1920 he has been working in St. Ives, Cornwall, adapting oriental methods to the needs of the Western world.

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Subject:
Bernard Leach
Writer:
Martin Chisholm
Producer:
W. Farquharson Small
Narrator:
Rosamund John
Source: Radio Times

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