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Reith Revisited: Grayson Perry on Nikolaus Pevsner

'The Englishness of English Art' was the theme of the 1955 大象传媒 Reith lectures by art historian Nikolaus Pevsner. Sarah Montague discusses them with artist Grayson Perry.

'The Englishness of English Art' was the theme of the 1955 大象传媒 Reith lectures by art historian Nikolaus Pevsner. Sarah Montague discusses them with Grayson Perry, the artist who himself was a Reith Lecturer in 2013.

In Reith Revisited, Radio 4 assesses the contributions of great minds of the past to public debate, in a dialogue across the decades with contemporary thinkers. In 1948, households across Britain gathered before the wireless as the pre-eminent public intellectual of the age, the philosopher Bertrand Russell delivered a set of lectures in honour of the 大象传媒's founder, Lord Reith. Since then, the Reith Lectures on the Home Service and subsequently Radio 4 have become a major national occasion for intellectual debate. In this series Radio 4 revisits five of the speakers from the first ten years of the Reith Lectures.

Producer: Neil Koenig
Researcher: Josephine Casserley

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