Night Waves - English landscape painting
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2012
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Constable, Gainsborough and Turner, the three towering figures of English landscape painting, have their artwork showcased in a new exhibition at the Royal Academy – Anne McElvoy is joined by art critic Lynn Nead and historian Andrew Wulf to review. Sir Ronald Harwood talks about adapting his play Quartet for the big screen. Advertising executives Robin Wight and Barry Delaney discuss the legacy of David Ogilvy. And the artist Katrina van Grouw gets under the skin of birds in a remarkable book of anatomical drawings.
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| 0:40.4 | Hello tonight on nightwaves, a naturalist with a taste for the uncanny, |
| 0:44.6 | we'll be looking at a startling new book about birds without their feathers. |
| 0:48.4 | A new exhibition on the roots of British landscape at the Royal Academy takes us from Turner to Richard Long. |
| 0:54.1 | And David Ogilvy, the real guru behind the myth of those advertising madmen, landscape at the Royal Academy takes us from Turner to Richard Long. |
| 0:58.1 | And David Ogilvie, the real guru behind the myth of those advertising madmen, |
| 1:02.3 | has his thoughts on how to sell republished after a quarter of a century. |
| 1:07.6 | But we begin with what happens to opera singers when the music of life begins to slow down. |
| 1:12.6 | Sir Ronald Harwood, a spring chicken of a screenwriter at 78, first took a poignant look at that subject in his stage play quartet back in 1999. It focused on the squabbles and affections |
| 1:19.3 | of a group of once great musical performers who find themselves in an old people's home for musicians. Among the chintz |
| 1:25.6 | furnishings, the residents chase the muse and its |
| 1:28.4 | memories. Well now, Quartet has been rewritten by Harwood for the screen, with the actor Dustin Hoffman, |
| 1:34.0 | making his debut as screen director. That commercially alluring combination has clearly been |
| 1:39.2 | music to the ears of an A-list cast, tottering by not so gently. |
| 1:43.9 | Let's have a torch to our quartet. |
| 1:46.2 | To the quartet. |
| 1:48.0 | What quartet? |
| 1:49.4 | Cedric wants us all to sing in the gala concert. |
| 1:53.3 | What else to sing? |
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