Hidden Paintings of the South East

[salymap]

BBC4 last night at 8pm. Charleston farmhouse, East Sussex yields up hidden painting[s] that
give insight into the life of Virginia Woolf and her social circle.

Rather spoiled for me by the presenter,Kathryn Rayward, flapping her hands about and saying "Wow" rather too often.

[mercia]

yes, I enjoyed that programme. A lot of care seems to be taken these days with artefacts what with white gloves, tissue paper etc. I'm sure such care wasn't taken in the past.

I think presenters are given a quota of "wow"s, "amazing"s and "incredible"s that has to be applied for the duration of a programme

[mercia]

for those with digital radio, Radio 4Extra has a 15-minute programme about Charleston this morning 11am repeated 7pm
"Paper gardens" "Restoring the Ghosts"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007k2cs

[salymap]

Thanks for that, Not up yet on IPlayer but will try again later.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

not the south but the north east .... i found this a moving programme Mr Green becomes genuinely involved, well worth catching up with ...

[Lateralthinking1]

That programme about art in the mining community looks very good.

There were more hidden paintings today on R4's "Making History". - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015p5fw#synopsis

I thought that this edition, in a nicely presented series, was really interesting in describing the political vision associated with the design of functional post-war schools. For example, while the main emphasis was on building quickly and cheaply, the architecture was also intended to be different from traditional design so that the students wouldn't "cower" and "feel small". Artwork was added to make the schools look more attractive and to enable wider access to art generally.

"An almost Soviet-styled wall mural has been uncovered and restored at St Crispin's comprehensive school at Wokingham in Berkshire. Painted by Fred Millett and now restored by the Perry Lithgow Partnership it depicts 'summer' and is one of many similar works of art that were incorporated in school designs in the 1950s".

Here are two websites that explain more about that art -

http://www.crispins.co.uk/website/in...ration-project

http://www.thedecoratedschool.blogspot.com/

This too was an interesting item -

"A listener discovered a fence 'tensioner' in a field near Aviemore in Scotland and wonders whether it is an artefact of a little-known Nazi history. Second World War historian James Holland dampens down such claims by explaining that the Nazi's over-engineered and over-designed even the simplest objects - hence their survival even in the most unlikely places!"