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Reith Revisited: Series 1: Grayson Perry on Nikolaus Pevsner

Grayson Perry on Nikolaus Pevsner

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Sarah Montague and Grayson Perry discuss Nikolaus Pevsner's lectures on 'English Art'.

'The Englishness of English Art' was the theme of the 1955 BBC Reith lectures by art historian Nikolaus Pevsner. Sarah Montague discusses them with artist Grayson Perry.

"The Englishness of English Art" was the theme of the 1955 BBC Reith lectures by art historian Nikolaus Pevsner. Sarah Montague discusses them with Grayson Perry. the artist who himself was a Reith Lecturer in 2013. In Reith Revisited, Radio 4 assesses the contributions of great minds of the past to public debate, in a dialogue across the decades with contemporary thinkers. In 1948, households across Britain gathered before the wireless as the pre-eminent public intellectual of the age, the philosopher Bertrand Russell delivered a set of lectures in honour of the BBC's founder, Lord Reith. Since then, the Reith Lectures on the Home Service and subsequently Radio 4 have become a major national occasion for intellectual debate. In this series Radio 4 revisits five of the speakers from the first ten years of the Reith Lectures.
Producer: Neil Koenig
Researcher: Josephine Casserley.

Reith Revisited: Series 1

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Sarah Montague and guests revisit speakers from the first ten years of the Reith Lectures.

Sarah Montague and guests revisit five of the speakers from the first ten years of the Reith Lectures.

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