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David Hockney on 'the Pleasure of Looking'

David Hockney on his contribution to the Artist's Eye series at the National Gallery

"It was about the pleasure of looking," says David Hockney on a new work for his exhibition in the Artist's Eye series at the National Gallery, London. Joseph Mydell discusses his one-man show about Paul Laurence Dunbar, 19th-century black American poet, Lyrics of the Hearthside at the Arts Theatre in London. Ronald Clark, author of Bertrand Russell and His World, talks about the much-married mathematician, philospher and CND campaigner. Review of the film Excalibur, directed by John Boorman.
Presenter: Humphrey Carpenter.

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大象传媒 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project