From the makers of 'World War 2 In Colour' comes this acclaimed ITV series chronicling Great Britain's wartime leader recently voted the 'Greatest Briton'.
Although Walter Sickert is considered the father of modern British painting he was born in Germany. He became Britain's most famous artist but after his death he drifted into obscurity ironically rejected for the same inventive spirit that had first made his name. He remains one of the undiscovered heroes of modern art. This vivid film discovers Howard Hodgkin rummaging in the Sickert archive follows Frank Auerbach around the streets of Camden Town encourages Professor Quentin Bell to recall what it was like to be drawn by the man himself; artist John Wannacott studies the drawings; Peter Ackroyd describes the context of London's back streets and secrets; Lady Mary Soames reveals the artists' friendship with her father Winston Churchill; solicitor Sir David Napley shares Sickert's fascination with The Camden Town Murder while Sickert's biographer Richard Shone explodes the myth that Sickert was Jack the Ripper. With music by Jools Holland and Sickert's writings read by Alan Bennett this film manages to conjure up the spirit of one of Europe's greatest artists.
Sir Winston Churchill was one of the most influential leaders this century. Perhaps more than any other he alone represented Great Britain at its very finest. Churchill was an aristocrat who possessed the common touch a brilliant orator a great writer and an inspiring leader whose un-yielding courage helped shape the course of world history. The voice of Churchill one of the most famous and easily identifiable in history still today evokes visions of determination for a free world and this film is a vivid portrait which takes you through his life and turbulent years spoken by the great man himself.
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