Hayley Atwell reads the final story in William Boyd's savagely funny short story series skewering the art world.

Giles Flint-Greenfield, a St James' art dealer with a penchant for post-war British watercolours, is finding his world rather small. But when Ludo Abernathy, an old and far more successful art dealer friend, cuts him in on the mother of a deal, new and potentially terrifying horizons open up for him in East London. All too soon Giles has swapped his tweed for black leather, and St James’ for a car maintenance shop, and is feeling very much out of his depth among the art lovers of Leyton. Not least because he isn’t quite sure how Ludo is making him so much money….

In today's final story, Bethany is working at the achingly hip gallery Feuerstein & Grünesfeld out in East London. But is the art world beginning to feel more like the Wild West?

Reader: Hayley Atwell is an acclaimed stage and screen actor, known most recently for her roles in the Captain America and Mission Impossible series.
Writer: William Boyd
Producer: Justine Willett Show less