The mystery of Francis Bacon's minder
The Slow Newscast
Alice Sandelson
4.6 • 894 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
This is the story of how a boxing match helped solve a 50-year art world mystery. And how, when a man named Ted wades in to stop a mugging in Soho, it leads to a most unlikely life-altering friendship with an artist who makes him, or his picture, immortal.
Reporter: Stephen Smith
Producer: Katie Gunning
Artwork: Blythe Walker Sibthorpe
Sound Designer: Dominic Delargy
Editor: Jasper Corbett
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| 0:02.5 | We're told it's something to be feared. |
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| 0:32.7 | The Observer. |
| 0:43.0 | Well, this is it. |
| 0:45.6 | Your eyes don't lie. |
| 0:48.5 | Trafalgar Square in central London is packed with boxing fans. |
| 0:54.4 | This is our main event, Andy. |
| 0:56.2 | This is what 96,000 people. |
| 0:58.8 | They're gathered on this evening in late September last year |
| 1:01.9 | to watch a way in ahead of the big fight at Wembley Stadium the following night. |
| 1:06.8 | Almost zero into action between the two. |
| 1:09.7 | Under the lights, Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois square up to each other, |
| 1:15.6 | on a stage which has been specially rigged up for the occasion. |
| 1:19.6 | What it was, I was working at the Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois the fight. |
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