Paul Allen talks to the celebrated design historian Tanya Harrod about her book The Crafts in Britain in the 20th Century. In her study, she examines how craftsmen responded to the prevailing artistic and political moods of the century, discovering how they responded to the changing demands of public and politics alike. She traces their movement from closely knit modernists to world war propagandists of a vernacular culture through to the 1980s, when they were recast as exemplars of enterprise Britain.
Producer Doug Traill-Stevenson