The BAFTA Award-winning ballet celebrating the life and work of L.S. Lowry
Music composed by Carl Davis
Choreography by Gillian Lynne

Starring Christopher Gable, Moira Shearer
with Northern Ballet Theatre and members of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Carl Davis

At the British Academy Awards in March A Simple Man won the Huw Weldon Award for Best Arts Programme. First shown in November, it tells the story of a man who is seen by many as one of the greatest British artists of the 20th century, L.S. Lowry. It deals with his struggle for recognition and with the search for his subjects.
Lowry declared his ambition was not to be a painter but was 'to put the industrial landscape on the map'.
The landscape he often chose was that around Salford. It was the City of Salford that first commissioned this evening's work. The programme is introduced by Albert Finney.

BBC North West
(R)