Bendor Grosvenor (12:00 BST)

Describing himself as an evangelist for British art, BBC’s presenter of ‘Britain’s Lost Masterpieces’ embarks on a journey of discovery through an incredible array of artworks, architecture and artists from 10,000 BCE to the flowering of landscape painting led by Turner and Constable, which he believes is Britain’s major artistic achievement.

Along the way he reveals how the art from these isles was created, what made it distinctive, and why it took so long to emerge. It is a story of beginnings, focussing on those truly original artists who were the first in their field; and as you would expect from the connoisseur TV presenter, he is unashamedly forthright in describing an artwork as beautiful or sublime and in some cases as unexpectedly bad.

‘Inventive, profound, fabulously quirky, Bendor Grosvenor’s journey takes him in directions that have never previously been trodden … A triumph.’ Waldemar Januszczak

In conversation with James Knox

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