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Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 1^st Feb 2015, 07:15 on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: Mon 14^th Jan 2019, 03:45 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Colin Ford explains how Riis's photographs of the New York slum had an immediate and extraordinary impact on society. From December 1999.

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FactualArts, Culture & the Media

Series

Snapshots in the Dark

Julia Margaret Cameron: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle, 1867

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 8^th Feb 2015, 07:15 on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: Mon 21^st Jan 2019, 03:45 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Colin Ford discovers how Cameron changed portraiture forever, thanks to her life-size reproduction of the head. From December 1999.

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FactualArts, Culture & the Media

Series

Snapshots in the Dark

Four Legs Muybridge

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 15^th Feb 2015, 07:15 on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: Mon 28^th Jan 2019, 03:45 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Colin Ford discovers how Eadweard Muybridge's photos of animals revolutionised our understanding of movement. From December 1999.

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FactualArts, Culture & the Media

Series

Snapshots in the Dark

Eddie Adams - Execution of a Vietcong Suspect, 1968

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 22^nd Feb 2015, 07:15 on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: Mon 4^th Feb 2019, 03:45 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

How Adams's photograph, seen around the world, impacted upon support for the Vietnam War. From December 1999.

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FactualArts, Culture & the Media

Series

Snapshots in the Dark

Lennart Nilsson - The Inner Child

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 1^st Mar 2015, 07:15 on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: Mon 11^th Feb 2019, 03:45 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Colin Ford investigates the impact of Nilsson's photograph of a foetus taken inside its mother's womb. From December 1999.

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FactualArts, Culture & the Media

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