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Lives in a Landscape: Series 8

Lives in a Landscape: Series 8: Episode 2: Life Model

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Episode 2: Life Model

Series 8

Life Model

BBC Radio 4 - Lives in a Landscape, Series 8, Life Model

Alan Dein meets a 75-year-old life model in Shipston-On-Stour.

Alan Dein meets a 75-year-old life model who is much in demand at art classes and whose physique has been honed by his training as a champion swimmer.

Alan Dein meets Arthur Lowe, a 75-year-old life model and former financial adviser, from Shipston-On-Stour who poses for art students as a contribution to society. Arthur puts his trim physique down to the lengths he regularly swims in his local pool - training which helped him win a gold medal at last year's world master's swimming competition in Sweden.

Alan visits an art class and observes the students at work as they capture the essence of the man at the front of the class. Although, he is physically naked before them, many know little of the life within and the issues that concern Arthur. Away from the studio, Alan explores exposure, vanity and the ageing process with Arthur who is acutely aware that his days as a model may be numbered.

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